You don't see the difference between someone fancying a fag and the game being postponed for 75 minutes (when supporters have been advised to arrive early)?

I wasn't aware that Westerman's twitter feed was the final authority in these matters.

According to Smailes the situation was changing constantly as the RFL ran back and forth between Hull and Bradford trying to keep the game on. At one point we were being told that we should change our squad and play the kids. Nothing could be announced until ALL THREE PARTIES agreed something and the RFL validated it. Maybe the reason Humberside couldn't get a definitive statement from the club was because the situation wasn't defined?

Maybe they did speak to the SMC and were told the turnstiles couldn't/wouldn't be closed as some people were already in the ground? Maybe H&S or the Police advised against it?

Trying to pin the blame without the full facts is a little pointless isn't it?

Chris, your usually level headed when posting but please reel it back.

I have just got home ( just outside wakey) after trying to get to the game. I set off at 6, with the intention of getting to the hull area at 7, an hour before the game. I heard on the radio about the tanker problem. At 6.45 I eventually make it to J34 (a19 Selby and get in a
convoy through hensall and snaith. This crawled along. Throughout this I am listening to the radio and updates from the stadium. By now it's 8pm and I have moved about 5 miles in and hour. The game get/ called off, I turn around and come home.

As I am coming home I hear lots of people call in to RH having a proper go at the hull players for not making it to the ground.

Well there are two things which many haven't considered. Firstly, the Hull players concerned were caught in that no mans land, after the last junction they could have got off and before the stricken tanker. They were going no where. The Bradford bus had clearly set off after these Hull players and were able to be diverted.

Secondly, and the point a few definitely haven't thought through is this nonsense about the Hull players should have been in Hull earlier to avoid this problem. Well let's say the West Yorkshire players did set off at 1pm to get across and exactly the same situation arises, they end up in no mans land beyond a junction and in front of a tanker which has spilled a corrosive loads across the M62. Because they would still be there now as well. It didn't matter when they would have set off they have just been unlucky. 15 mins before and through. 15 mins after and diverted.

As a side issue the communication from the club was Shiite.

What has wanting a fag got to do with this!! we are talking about young & old fans being expected to sit is a freezing cold stadium for an hour and half before a KO when a simple solution would be to stamp a persons hand which enables them to go sit in a warm place (Bar/car etc) and return around 9pm for KO!

The people stuck on the motorway were sat in a warm place, their cars/coaches of course there is a bloody difference.

On the other hand, Humberside were also unable to understand the workings of time, so maybe their competence could be a factor. At 7.30 a female caller said they were leaving, Humberside asked why it wasn't just worth waiting until the then suspected 8.30 kick off as it was only 30 minutes away. They followed that up with the question that if people thought they should be there at about 12, what would they expect them to do for 6 hours until an 8pm kick off? They then told us it was being moved to tomorrow night as Clark was on the pitch confirming Sunday afternoon.

Why? I think the conduct of my clubs previous management is just as bad.

Would it have been really hard to get a message to the stewards to tell people they weren't sure if the game was going ahead?

Accusing me of being a drama queen yet you're taking this personally. If my club had taken 48 quid in match tickets, a fiver from parking from you when you had already paid for petrol I'd expect you to be annoyed and I would think my club was poorly run. I understand the stewards are employed by a different company but any sort of message would be better than just taking the money no questions asked.

I saw it 1st hand as was in the ground at 7-15 to get my kids usual seats in unreserved.There was plenty of outlets selling hot (overpriced) drinks and food.You start giving into 1..you get others....TBH,i cant see what the club could have done.

Has anyone thought of if Hull had cancelled the match early, we could of lost the 2 points??

I don't think I said it was the final authority, did I? No, I definitely did not. But when he's posting 'still haven't moved, still haven't moved' repeatedly, it seems fairly obvious that moving is not a thing they're likely to be doing very soon.

And RH didn't need a definitive statement on anything, just an update on what was happening. FFS, Bradford were tweeting stuff several minutes before Hull and they were the away team. Next to nowt came out of the club save for the announcement that KO was 21.15, then the announcement that it was off.

That in itself was a farce. Whilst it wasn't solely Hull's fault, they should never have postponed and then called off like that. They took long enough to reach a decision between them, and still fukced it up.

Why young and old?????...My 13 yr old didnt complain at all and its not as though they have school on a sat morn is it.

Just home from my 4 hour attempt to reach Hull. It was obvious to me stuck in the traffic that at around 7.30 there was no chance of reaching Hull for 9:15. Only problem for us fans based in West Yorkshire is the weather forecast for Sunday is heavy snow here

No team can just cancel a match without the agreement of the other team and the officials.

13 is a bit different to 3, 4 and 5 year olds sitting in the cold bored.

I toook a 4, 6 & 9 year old to the Wakey friendly and thats was hard work however yours sounds a lot worse. I feel your pain

Could be 100 degrees and they will still get bored at that age.