Quote: rlfan "I suspect that I like many others are in a quandary over a season ticket. It's not the price that's the issue as that is still too low.
The problem is the segregation issue. We have tried the east side and that is terrible and I like many derive no please in watching rugby league from one end. I want to stand on the Western terrace to enjoy my rugby among my friends from the best view in the ground, the western terrace.
This nonsense about segregation has created fights which were a rarity over the last half century and our experience of being showered with glasses of urine and plastic bottles whilst watching from the North Terrace against Leeds was ample confirmation that this misguided policy is ill conceived and should be consigned to the bin. Having been in the North Stand, I don't see it as an experience worth repeating.
If the away fans must be penned in somewhere, the obvious place is in front of the east stand where nobody wants to go.
So my choice is to buy a season ticket and be treated like an unruly child or to ensure I am not wearing any Wakefield merchandise and pay on the gate to enjoy my rugby and some banter with the away fans. It's really up to the club.'"
Like you i'm not a fan of segregation, however as i understand it the club were ordered to do something about it after the trouble at last years home fixture with cas or else we would have had more financial woes by way of a big fine.
The facilities at the ground not being the best led to the decision that the west stand was the best place to facilitate the needs of a segregated section of (away) supporters - rightly or wrongly.
like you I prefer to be stood with a mix of home and away fans, but sadly the future of the game looks to be heading in a decidedly segregated direction.
Apart from the odd game when the away supporters really do travel in number i would argue you should be able to stand where you choose as away supporters tend to be stood where we are (in front of the big screen) and in and around the bits of the north stand i can see and are unchallenged by the security stewards.
As for the bottle of urine...are you sure it wasnt just the lager??
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