From what I could work out when I bought my ticket at the ticket office prior to the game today the HKR fans that were queing behind me were asked the exact same question by the ticketing staff that I was "Where would you like to sit"! They were not asked "home or away".
Anyone purchasing from the ticket office were sold East Stand tickets regardless of their allegiance as far as I could tell!!

Did you ask them to move in a polite and curtious manner ?

I was in the north stand but had friends who went in the east stand (they'd paid at the ticket office), they took up their seats in the second block in from the north end as most rovers fans in the east stand did, but I have to say both blocks at the north end of the east stand were practically empty so I can't see any problems with people sitting in other peoples seats. whilst not condoning rudeness, If i'd plonked myself down and was surrounded by empty seats all around and someone came up and demanded I move because those specific chairs were theirs I'd be pretty ruffled also, (apologies if this was not your specific situation)

Mate...as far as I am concerened as long as ST seats weren't being squatted in, people should have been able to sit where they wanted. I was in section AC and it was only 1/2 full at best, so I don't see what the problem is. I fully inderstand that some of your fans didn't want to sit in the North.....ear defenders would have been required

Only when their team got on top in the second half. That's how it sounded to me at the south end of the east stand, anyway.

To be fair, there were about 30 of them who were vocal pretty much all the time. The remainder joined in when they got on top.
FWI, I thought we were the far better side in the first half, but weren't ruthless enough. Second hald, we just didn't turn up. I got that bored that I started counting the fans in the North Stamd and there were about 550...with another 100 or so scattered around the North end of the East....so good turn out from the HKR masssive.
As has been alluded to here a few times, it is getting harder for away teams to bring down many fans as they are now faced with Catalans, Celtic and Quins as potential bank breakers. Still, if they brought 750, then that means we had 2,750 "home fans" at the game...let's hopewe can get these people back

They only piped up after they were two clear then just went through their 3 song repertoire over and over

5 games into our 13 home matches this year and we are 6,453 down on attendances. (nearly 1,300 a game)

Wigan - 4,158
Warrington -416
Hull FC -200
Catalan -611
HKR - 1,068

Now, lots of possible reasons for this and to be fair, last years goons figure was littered with freebies, so in real terms, we seem to be losing 500 a game on average.
I would think that a fair amount of these are away fans who aren't coming down due to the new long distance games (France and Wales) as well as a smattering of stay away londoners.

The problem we have is that we don't (in most cases) know who these fans are. I believe that we need to proactively canvas fans for their details at games. Offer a box for 10 as a prize, free tickets, away coach fare paid or something, in exchange for their details. Then we need to ask them for feedback and suggestions.
Simply put, the 3 games against Wire, FC and Wigan in 2005 brought us 3,219 more fans (£32k in ticket revenue alone) and as we are now in our 4th year as QRL.....we really need to address this decline before it becomes terminal.

I believe that HKR brought 250 less yesterday than last year, so where have the other 750 fans from last year gone If we were to lose another 750 next year, and HKR bring 250 less again, we will be averaging 2,000 a game by the end of 2010

And that's exactly what happened, as I was the one that moved ! ! !

Basically, we turned up at the ground 2 hours before kick off, paid through the turnstyles, and sat in the main stand to watch the reserve match. At no point did any club official state that there were reserved seating anywhere, and I specifically checked to see if any of the seats had "reserved" stickers on them. All seats were unreserved, and the stand was almost empty.

45 minutes before kick off, the main stand (which I presume holds about 4000) had about 100 fans in it, and this old git with his howling witch of a wife, can up to us, shouting, screaming and demanding that we moved.

Now, dont get me wrong, if we were sat in somebodys season ticket seat, I would happily move, I did ask him what seat was his and he said "all of them". This was clearly not the case, so we just moved 10 seats toward the half way line.

He then ran over to blab to the steward (honestly, it was like watching a child in the playground running to teacher ! ). When the steward came, he asked to see our ticket which confirmed we were in the correct stand, he then asked us to move a few blocks, as he did not want this bloke causing trouble. We happily obliged and moved, and had a chat with the steward about the how out of order and rude the old git was.

In 25 years of attending hundreds of away matches, I have never been in a situation like this, and this mindless idiot and his howling baboon of a wife, has, in my book, tarnished the reputation of your club. He acted in an unofficial capacity, and had no authority to demand where other supporters sat.

In consequence, I will certainly reconsider driving a 500 mile round trip to attend another Quins match again.

Sorry you had a bad experience and that you will be thinking hard before returning. I fully appreciate the ticketing at the stoop needs sorting out and, without defending this fellow or his good lady wife you were not the problem......it has just become a bit of an issue down here with "some" ST holders and the clubs seating arrangements for 2009.
I on the other hand am looking forward to my first trip to Caravan Park...and I don't care where I stand/sit as long as we get revenge for yesterday.

I too sat amongst your home support yesterday, I got my ticket from your ticket office, as I enjoy watching from the side on and not the away behind the sticks end. When I got the ticket I was only asked what price I wished to pay as it went up the closer to the centre of the stand. Having my away HKR top on the young lady didnt appear to be bothered only pointing out the increased prices.

As to vocal I thought you sounded loud the first half, but your right tin roof helps away fans.

I didnt have any probs with home Fans sat very near too them, just good natured banter, so Thanks for an enjoyable day out, and I shall be there next season.

The volunteers do actively canvas fans, we are at the Quins stand for 2 hours before kick off until 15 minutes before kick off. We do the best we can with relatively few pre game volunteers. We collect names, address's, phone numbers, email address etc etc and then I spend time in the office adding them to the data base. We already have a hospitality box for the 10 winners at the end of the season for the fans who give their information at the stand. This is also advertised at the stand. The reason we stop 15 minutes before kick off is due to the fact we are all volunteers who have purchased season tickets and whilst we want to help the club as much as possible at the end of the day we are volunteers and our main reason for being there is to watch the game.

If anyone would like to volunteer help on a match day it would be really appreciated, we have raffle tickets to sell, try sponsorship, junior player sponsorship, data collection etc etc.

There is always going to be some kind of clash in London, hard to avoid in a city of 7.5 million with all the events that go on, but the size in itself should be of benefit to the club.