I think some people, perhaps a minority, enjoy the queuing as part of the big event occasion. Some want to buy large numbers of tickets to sit together which may be tricky to administer on an online system where you need to register passes to customer accounts and so on. The "acceptability" of it depends on the context of the arrangements the club is working within. I don't know what they are, but they might be different to those of the other clubs involved.

As usual we get some nonsense about me in response to some reasonanle questions. I am a supporter of the club, you are right. I won a free pass a few years ago when Feka was playing, but it was a one off as part of a, promotional competition that year. Trying to use this as some sort of perverse leverage in a reasonable debate makes you look silly.

There's quite a lot of mis information on here regarding selling tickets online and who's to blame, the situation is as follows;

The SMC have the ability to sell tickets for any game online, they do however charge a significant admin fee per ticket, the club were not willing to pay this.

The club tried to get the RFL to sell their tickets online for free, the RFL rightly refused as this would be unfair on other clubs, they did offer to sell our allocation online charging us per ticket to cover their own costs, we refused.

So we are left with telephone sales and in person and like it or not its entirely the clubs own doing.

We're a blessing and a curse for the RFL at neutral events, we are guaranteed to sell tickets but we are one of the worst run clubs in that regard.

That's helpful context thank you. For the final obviously you can buy from the RFL online in the Hull end - we did this in 2017. So perhaps it comes down to putting something in place on the offchance we get to the CC semi final as the only other neutral venue fixture of the year.

No perverse leverage, simply looking for some context to you continually refusing to admit the blatantly obvious. Anyway, thanks to Airlie Street for confirming it's a financial decision by the club who have 2 options other than the status quo but don't want to pay for them

Of course it's a financial decision. Buying a system that's only used for online Challenge cup semi final tickets and maybe Magic.

cost benefit analysis of inconveniencing your loyal fanbase against modernising your sales channel options. Easier for a sporting club than a real business I guess but pretty shortsighted IMO but I'm sure the beans on one side add up to more than the other

You Hull fans complain a lot. If you go to buy your challenge cup semi final tickets the day they go on sale, surely you are expecting to que.

All trains into Kings Cross Saturday 24th August...

"There will be severe planned disruption and customers are strongly advised DO NOT TRAVEL"

"There are no trains to or from London Kings Cross due to planned engineering work.
Alternative train services will be extremely busy. Customer are advised not to travel. More information at eastcoastupgrade.co.uk"

two more blocks in the upper west stand released today, (halifax end id guess) as all blocks behind the posts sold out https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q= ... SEARCH_BOX

two more blocks in the upper west stand released today, (halifax end id guess) as all blocks behind the posts sold out https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q= ... SEARCH_BOX

FFs

Depends on how much per ticket the SMC wanted to sell online? From a £21 ticket the SMC may have requested say £6? FC would lose out on a fair bit of money and so would the RFL,so don’t blame the club one little bit.SMC were charging £3 extra for cup ties at home so no doubt would have wanted more for the SF

HOW MANY TICKETS WE SOLD THEN UP TO NOW AROUND 6000?

DON'T KNOW!!

LOL

7 of our allocated blocks have already sold out, so not bad after a few days on sale.

I’d advise Warrington and St Helens fans to travel by coach. Engineering work on the railways is often planned on bank holidays as it gives a rare 3 days without commuters. I’m not sure why we insist on holding the cup final on a bank holiday weekend.

Their trains would run into Euston and not Kings Cross so there shouldn't be a problem for them.

… he was trying to score points but failed miserably, as usual.

In that case, I congratulate network rail in scheduling the work at a time when Kings Cross station will have far fewer passengers than normal.

correct! no glory hunting leeds fans that weekend!

wire and sts fans could walk it.

Ticket sales so far

Warrington


Saints


Hull FC

Why are blocks AL3, LL3 and LL1 priced differently. Warrington and St Helens fans are getting ripped off paying more for the same seats as Hull.

Compensation for the 5 hour round trip v less than an hour

Hull's website now shows block IL3 as half and half category 1 and 2.

We've sold out of category 1 seats in IL4.

Hopefully sales at the other three semi-finalists gather pace and we can head towards a sell out.