I was more than old enough to remember, I couldn't care less then and I still don't now, its a perfect example of a trivial, mundane issue that gets small minded, insular idiots riled up in this city just because they like different sports. Its a seat for christs sake, why do you care? Just be thankful they didn't go with council colours and have yellow and blue seats everywhere.
It's rugby that sums up the narrow minded and backward thinking that holds this city back. Hull FC in the quarter finals even though they've only played one game, fans who think a trip over the Pennines is an odyssey, fans who believe their rivalry is as intense as Celtic- Rangers, Liverpool- Everton or Arsenal- Spurs, when the crowd barely reaches five figures, two clubs who have consistently failed against pit villages a fraction of the size of Hull. Fans who have simultaneously shamed our city and made it a laughing stock by bringing 'our lass' to help out in on-pitch brawls with their cross-city counterparts.
It's an odd thing that 'rugby' fans get lumped together. Very general, but in my experience, Rovers fans just tend to get on with enjoying their chosen sport, but FC seem to keep comparing it to football. Okay, they share a common root, but they diversified so the less skilled fat kids could play a more simple team sport. It's possibly that 'hope for all' some see as the attraction. I'm not sure what that has to do with the north east corner though, unless it's the RL lot that are liable to have chosen an away team to follow. That'll only matter if we're in the prem. Funny how they pick teams that offer most of the things they criticise football for.
Or in the vast majority of cases people enjoy what makes them happy and don't feel the need to attack others for what they enjoy.
They play in black and white, and we play in black and amber. The stadium was built with predominantly black seats with a small number each of amber and white seats. What's the issue meant to be here? North as a "Kop" wasn't ever going to work, we always sold East out ahead of South despite the different capacities so fans clearly weren't interested in being behind a goal. But rather than us getting back the current away end, I'm intrigued to know how this moving away fans to the West Upper will work. Everyone is being evicted from there so the club can close it. If away fans are in it they'll have to open it and deal with it every week, not just when we need it.
They'll also quite possibly be charging them less than the home fans would otherwise have been paying.
No idea, it's not mentioned in the bit of the open letter about the situation that has the Allams contradict themselves once again.
We go up: Upper West open for home fans, existing blocks for away fans We stay down: Away fans in Upper West drenching home flaskers in a cascade of urine , home fans in E1,E2 and E3
Did City fans drench Sunderland and Newcastle fans in a cascade of urine? Do fans get drenched at Loftus Road?
It's not as simple as that though Ehab's amazing idea hasn't been considered by the SAG yet, so I think it's not unlikely that if we stay down Upper West will have been dispersed round the lower bowl cauldron of hate, but away fans will still be in N-E3 while they sort out the safety concerns which they obviously have
