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Post by hypotenuse on Jan 29, 2020 13:14:41 GMT 1
The majority of Town fans were up in the top left so would have been out of camera sight, it was poor, I guessed at 800, but clubs need to learn and I include Town, yes our season card deals etc are great value but £30 pay on the day and for away fans is too expensive. Whatever we had last night I reckon from past experiences that it would have been doubled at £25 instead of £33, throw into the mix extra sales of programmes, parking, food and drink etc and it's a no brainer, the club would have made more money ? Usually agree with your posts but not this one. I don’t believe for one minute that hundreds of Town fans willing to travel to Hull on a Tuesday night, as a minimum pay for travel, ticket and drink, will be influenced by an £8 difference in ticket price. Wether it is £22, £26 or £33 a ticket, if you planning on a 150 mile round trip on a week night you are either going or not, the ticket price is not relevant, within reason. Of course if the ticket price was £50 then that is a different ball game but 4,6,8 quid difference...I don’t buy it. I fully agree it is an expensive hobby and in my opinion £33 was, in comparison, an expensive ticket and it will deter some but only an absolute minority. I’m not sure you are correct. I’d have driven up from the Midlands last night (as I had an earlier finish at work than normal) at £20 a ticket. I might have stretched to £25 maximum. Didn’t even consider it at £33.
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Post by hypotenuse on Jan 29, 2020 13:18:52 GMT 1
10,474 ...the bubble has certainly popped at Hull...that figure includes 4,000 Town fans too..........? Not just Hull. Attendances last night - Blackburn 11,505 Brentford 12,274 (500 short of capacity, could have been away end I suppose) Hull 10,474 Luton 10,057 (300 short of capacity) Wigan 9,759 Reading 11,633 Football is slowly killing itself. Serves it right. The fixture list this season doesn’t help. I am coming up north to visit family on consecutive Saturday’s 15th and 22nd Feb. I assumed we’d be at home on one of them. We’re away on both with home fixtures midweek before and after these dates. Pairing fixtures 2 home then 2 away so often this season is really poor planning and totally unnecessary.
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Post by Camel Grabber on Jan 29, 2020 13:31:23 GMT 1
How seriously was Grabara hurt? We likely to lose him for a while because that only leaves us with one experienced keeper unless we recall Hamer or Schofield, but even he’s injured. Had a quick look on the hull forum during the break in play.. One hull fan had posted about grabara .. “I hope he dies” I have seen this too, needs reporting, regardless of who you support etc no place for that type of comment
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Post by Porrohman on Jan 29, 2020 13:36:43 GMT 1
How seriously was Grabara hurt? We likely to lose him for a while because that only leaves us with one experienced keeper unless we recall Hamer or Schofield, but even he’s injured. Had a quick look on the hull forum during the break in play.. One hull fan had posted about grabara .. “I hope he dies” Knobheads everywhere mate, one bloke replied to a tweet about the shirts for Jordan that he was glad he was dead and hoped every footballer would die 🤨
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Post by galpharm2400 on Jan 29, 2020 13:48:18 GMT 1
Had a quick look on the hull forum during the break in play.. One hull fan had posted about grabara .. “I hope he dies” Knobheads everywhere mate, one bloke replied to a tweet about the shirts for Jordan that he was glad he was dead and hoped every footballer would die 🤨 Dont make issues that give arseholes oxygen... Arseholes hate being ignored that's why they make arsehole statements.. Forget em, fuck em...
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Jan 29, 2020 13:51:21 GMT 1
Usually agree with your posts but not this one. I don’t believe for one minute that hundreds of Town fans willing to travel to Hull on a Tuesday night, as a minimum pay for travel, ticket and drink, will be influenced by an £8 difference in ticket price. Wether it is £22, £26 or £33 a ticket, if you planning on a 150 mile round trip on a week night you are either going or not, the ticket price is not relevant, within reason. Of course if the ticket price was £50 then that is a different ball game but 4,6,8 quid difference...I don’t buy it. I fully agree it is an expensive hobby and in my opinion £33 was, in comparison, an expensive ticket and it will deter some but only an absolute minority. I’m not sure you are correct. I’d have driven up from the Midlands last night (as I had an earlier finish at work than normal) at £20 a ticket. I might have stretched to £25 maximum. Didn’t even consider it at £33. Fair do’s. Like I said, it will deter a minority. I may be wrong, I usually am, just my two penneth.
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Post by Mecha Corte on Jan 29, 2020 13:55:42 GMT 1
The majority of Town fans were up in the top left so would have been out of camera sight, it was poor, I guessed at 800, but clubs need to learn and I include Town, yes our season card deals etc are great value but £30 pay on the day and for away fans is too expensive. Whatever we had last night I reckon from past experiences that it would have been doubled at £25 instead of £33, throw into the mix extra sales of programmes, parking, food and drink etc and it's a no brainer, the club would have made more money ? Usually agree with your posts but not this one. I don’t believe for one minute that hundreds of Town fans willing to travel to Hull on a Tuesday night, as a minimum pay for travel, ticket and drink, will be influenced by an £8 difference in ticket price. Wether it is £22, £26 or £33 a ticket, if you planning on a 150 mile round trip on a week night you are either going or not, the ticket price is not relevant, within reason. Of course if the ticket price was £50 then that is a different ball game but 4,6,8 quid difference...I don’t buy it. I fully agree it is an expensive hobby and in my opinion £33 was, in comparison, an expensive ticket and it will deter some but only an absolute minority. That's fine, I disagree but not to the extent of going to fall out over it and I also agree that the long break in play ended up doing us a huge favour last night, having played well, for a change, there's no doubt Hull had got on top after equalising and looked set to go on and win it, however from the restart I thought we took over. Back to ticket prices, I've seen Town in Hull on at least 10 occasions, in 3 division's and in cup matches both on Saturday and midweek, l would say last night was the smallest turn out that's been there, yes we've been poor lately, Boro and Barnsley away and Stoke at home, the league position is a worry and lots of people will be feeling the pinch late in January but you'd only to read the thread on here to realise that there was going to be a backlash with Hull charging £33, the same as with Wednesday and Beeston for the last 5 or 6 years. I remember a Tuesday night game at Hillsborough under Lee Clark in Div 3 and we filled the top tier and weren't far off with the bottom tier as well, the prices were reasonable, then in the Div 2 early in Wagner's reign the 4 of us only went because Wagner had come in, the price had got silly. It might sound odd to say what difference does £5 or £8 name when you committing all the time and expense to travel but it does make a difference I can't prove it but I do know that in early March we will struggle to sell our allocation at the big yellow skip, and I know some are intimidated or refuse to give them any money but if they were priced at £25 they would sell out in a flash.
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Post by 66738 on Jan 29, 2020 13:57:26 GMT 1
Had a quick look on the hull forum during the break in play.. One hull fan had posted about grabara .. “I hope he dies” I have seen this too, needs reporting, regardless of who you support etc no place for that type of comment Correct. Totally disgraceful but it must be said a few quite rightfully told him to shut the f**k up in posts that followed.
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Post by Camel Grabber on Jan 29, 2020 14:01:58 GMT 1
I have seen this too, needs reporting, regardless of who you support etc no place for that type of comment Correct. Totally disgraceful but it must be said a few quite rightfully told him to shut the f**k up in posts that followed. Yes they did and fair at to them. It is always a minority that are small minded and disgusting. I just think of if the shoe was on the other foot and somebody made a comment like that about said persons family.
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Post by Mastercracker on Jan 29, 2020 14:22:58 GMT 1
Usually agree with your posts but not this one. I don’t believe for one minute that hundreds of Town fans willing to travel to Hull on a Tuesday night, as a minimum pay for travel, ticket and drink, will be influenced by an £8 difference in ticket price. Wether it is £22, £26 or £33 a ticket, if you planning on a 150 mile round trip on a week night you are either going or not, the ticket price is not relevant, within reason. Of course if the ticket price was £50 then that is a different ball game but 4,6,8 quid difference...I don’t buy it. I fully agree it is an expensive hobby and in my opinion £33 was, in comparison, an expensive ticket and it will deter some but only an absolute minority. That's fine, I disagree but not to the extent of going to fall out over it and I also agree that the long break in play ended up doing us a huge favour last night, having played well, for a change, there's no doubt Hull had got on top after equalising and looked set to go on and win it, however from the restart I thought we took over. Back to ticket prices, I've seen Town in Hull on at least 10 occasions, in 3 division's and in cup matches both on Saturday and midweek, l would say last night was the smallest turn out that's been there, yes we've been poor lately, Boro and Barnsley away and Stoke at home, the league position is a worry and lots of people will be feeling the pinch late in January but you'd only to read the thread on here to realise that there was going to be a backlash with Hull charging £33, the same as with Wednesday and Beeston for the last 5 or 6 years. I remember a Tuesday night game at Hillsborough under Lee Clark in Div 3 and we filled the top tier and weren't far off with the bottom tier as well, the prices were reasonable, then in the Div 2 early in Wagner's reign the 4 of us only went because Wagner had come in, the price had got silly. It might sound odd to say what difference does £5 or £8 name when you committing all the time and expense to travel but it does make a difference I can't prove it but I do know that in early March we will struggle to sell our allocation at the big yellow skip, and I know some are intimidated or refuse to give them any money but if they were priced at £25 they would sell out in a flash. Afobes debut that. I had to abandon my car on double yellows somewhere outside, luckily got away with it. Totally agree on the pricing. I'd have probably grudgingly gone to Hull on a satdy at £33, I'd have gone on a tuesday at £33 if we were riding high but when we're crap on the whole combined with midweek £33 was the straw that broke the camels back.
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Post by Torquayterrier on Jan 29, 2020 16:03:09 GMT 1
I was at that match at Hillsborough as well, left Nottingham at 5pm. Horrendous traffic to get to J25, M1 itself usual traffic but not too bad then horrendous traffic to try to get to Hillsborough. Abandoned car nearly a mile away and jogged all way in pissing rain. Missed first 15 minutes of the match. Afobe came on as a sub and put himself about like someone twice his age, thought we'd loaned a real prospect. I've triued to get to very few midweek away's since unless I happened to have the day off.
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Post by Mastercracker on Jan 29, 2020 16:05:44 GMT 1
I was at that match at Hillsborough as well, left Nottingham at 5pm. Horrendous traffic to get to J25, M1 itself usual traffic but not too bad then horrendous traffic to try to get to Hillsborough. Abandoned car nearly a mile away and jogged all way in. Missed first 15 minutes of the match. Afobe came on as a sub and put himself about like someone twice his age, thought we'd loaned a real prospect. He clattered Purse which made him an instant hero in my book.
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Post by ambryboy on Jan 30, 2020 21:15:32 GMT 1
I am fully aware that the great Gordon Banks is no longer with us and that is what Codd was referring to. So I guess I should apologise for my strange humour instead. Blame that ambryboy, he started it Oh alright then Bert Trautmann. Oh, another one gone. Lev Yashin? Oops, dead too. Gary Sprake? Oh my word are all of the goalkeeping greats pushing up the daises? Right, when Kamil wakes up tell him he's Tim Clarke. Deffo not dead although when he played for town he couldn't have been any worse if he had been!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2020 23:37:51 GMT 1
Was the Hull goal awarded via goal line technology or did the ref/lino just award it??
I haven’t seen a clip yet that makes it look even close to being a goal.
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Post by Torquayterrier on Jan 31, 2020 14:19:03 GMT 1
Looks well over the line on the Sky highlights. Around 1:08-1:10 in the video. Mounie could have done a bit better trying to clear it tbh but a win's a win.
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Post by Mecha Corte on Jan 31, 2020 16:46:17 GMT 1
Was the Hull goal awarded via goal line technology or did the ref/lino just award it?? I haven’t seen a clip yet that makes it look even close to being a goal. The goal line technology puts VAR to shame, saw the highlights on Quest and it was over by literally the width of a fag paper but it was over and players accept it and move on.
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Post by Porrohman on Jan 31, 2020 17:48:07 GMT 1
Was the Hull goal awarded via goal line technology or did the ref/lino just award it?? I haven’t seen a clip yet that makes it look even close to being a goal. The highlights show the ref pointing straight to his wrist to show the goal line technology had gone off
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Jan 31, 2020 18:11:08 GMT 1
Was the Hull goal awarded via goal line technology or did the ref/lino just award it?? I haven’t seen a clip yet that makes it look even close to being a goal. The goal line technology puts VAR to shame, saw the highlights on Quest and it was over by literally the width of a fag paper but it was over and players accept it and move on. They should be OK with it. It doesn't involve human beings...
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