Whoever it was who started it, and I think both clubs are equally to blame, the whole situation has developed into tit-for-tat actions due to the poor relations between the clubs, which to me seems to have worsened since the Cooke saga and it is us silly b*ggers the fans who suffer! It was a disgrace to let fans (from any club) queue from the early hours and throughout the day knowing that a majority of the poor sods were wasting their time and would go away without tickets. I queued for 3 and a half hours and was at the cut-off point and was told after about 3 hours that from me in the queue there would be no more tickets. I stayed until they ran out just in case they had miscounted but they ran out when I was 2 from the counter.

At least I have the comfort of being told I should get my tickets as I was first on 'The List' but why for everyone's sake can't the upper echelons of both clubs just get together and sort out their differences, a good punch-up if it helps, and then call it quits and stop messing us supporters around with totally unacceptable situations like this. The joy of Derby's is taken away even before they start with these nightmare ticketing problems. It was plainly obvious with the current success of both clubs that this Derby would sell out quicker than most so the full allocation should have been sent in one go.

totally agree mate, if you was in the queue at craven park I must have been a couple of people behind you!

One thing this has done for the first time for me since I went to my first game in 1979, is think about willingly missing a rovers game. I reckon I'll still make good friday but with all this rubbish going on I may well miss my first game in 5 years (including all friendlies) when the dicky horne game goes ahead in feb, he and Hull FC can ram it.

Their comms manager must have been one of the redundancies!

If rovers knew this was the case then why not hold on to the tickets until the remaining allocation has arrived. They know the tickets will sell so could of laid the money out up front to Hull to cover the full allocation.They would get it back in a day. Now they have left themselves with loads of extra work collecting names and numbers to distribute the tickets.

Ive got friends that are rovers fans and they have talked about the incompetence of their shop before, especially in relation to the distribution of their new shirts etc.

Think rather than looking to blame FC they should start to look at their own to find where things are going wrong.

This is were Hull FC's fault comes into it, they only sent the number they did and wouldn't let Rovers have anymore until they were sold apparently so holding onto them until more arrived wasn't an option, they had to sell them first. As I have said this is a situation that has developed over the last couple of years and is the fault of both clubs IMO.

Theres only 1 club that didnt pay their bill to the other!

And to think they paid off the decent staff they had