Quote away I say, life is too short to worry about anything said on this fora.
We can all play the irony card when it suits huh? Frankly I was half thinking that your fans are so far up your own s that one of you might actually think you were something special, given the bollox that comes out of some fans mouth's it wouldn't be the first nor the last time that some self important $h1te was spouted.
Still in the interests of completing the circle of irony & just to be sure I thought I'd wade in with a handful of my own you know just on the off chance and all that. I guess I made the classic faux pas of not using emoticons to show that my reply was ironic also?
Should one have used one of these or indeed one of these I'd hazard a guess that maybe that wouldn't even be enough for some of the afflicted here

Perhaps if the RFL could have been ar$ed to answer his email, he wouldn't have had to, quite legitimately, share the response from the Etihad on here.

This shouldn't take any more than a mouse click to answer - standard answer referring them to a web page listing stadium rules for the day. But then maybe that's a little more complicated than organizing a p-up in a brewery and thus beyond Mr. Wood's capability to sort out.

One superb reason for slipping away from the stadium (or even arriving late) are the excellent ale spots in the Northern Quarter.

One of the stewards works with me and he's looking forward to this event: he knows what rugby fans are like from Barton stewarding.

Ground Rules

[i"With the exception of authorised press representatives holding official passes, the taking of photographs or cine/video photography inside the ground is prohibited."[/i

Was anyone planning on bringing a camera? Don't know whether to take mine now?

This is a generic regulation in all stadia due to copyrights, you'll be ok with a personal camera ie a non SLR type. I doubt the thousands of Man city fans were denied capturing their own personal memories the other weekend! Besides how many of us carry phones with camera's integrated!

reading through the posts, am i right in thinking you can leave the stadium, after the 1st game, but only stay within the grounds, (city square), but not allowed to walk back to manchester city cente then back to the ground for the hull derby?

Some of these stadium rules are a joke!

Q: Can I bring bags, rucksacks or suitcases?
A Luggage items larger than A4 size are not permitted into the stadium for security reasons. Appropriate discretion will be used for ladies' handbags, baby changing bags, etc. which will be subject to the standard security checks

So does anyone actually have a bag thats A4 size? Or can anyone lend me a Sport Billy bag to put my kids jumpers,jackets,ipod,suncream,hats and sunglasses in. I wonder what they do on city matchdays when people use the clubshop do they supply special bags?

You can go wherever you like, on or off the stadium premises as far as I can tell.

Both Cardiff and murrayfield had the same "no food" stipulation in their t&c's but did not enforce it

Can't see how that could be enforced. City square isn't enclosed

I wish folk would stop sensibly answering these questions and allow me to invoke my right as an RFL to GET REALLY ANGRY AND SAY THAT IT'S A FARCE.

Weather will be too warm. Risk of heat exhaustion. Been saying it for years but we really ought to switch back to winter rugby.

Anyone know if drums can be taken in?

Only after they've been smashed on their owner's head and pulled down over their shoulders to prevent them moving their arms.

P.S. I don't like drums.