Quote: gutterfax "Suddenly, blocks of 300+ seats at the Hive have become unavailable, which points to either making room for the selco banner, segregation from the 5 dozen or so salfordians, or a bulk giveaway......but I suspect that we could be looking at a very small crowd on Saturday, either way.'"
I've seen this before for friendly games. I think your guesses are not far off.
There will be no segregation, I suspect the group in block E are those tickets sent to Salford.
The whole of block D disappearing from sale is likely to be for three reasons.
1. Enough people have bought tickets in the block to make it look reasonably full so TK wants us to buy seats online elsewhere in the ground to spread the crowd.
2. Reserve a few seats for late uptake of membership, These seats will be available for general sale on the day.
3. Ensure premium seats are available to buy on the gate.
Before Block D was taken off general sale I think around 250 had been sold in that block.