Halifax away Tickets

The ticketing restrictions are just insane. Max 4 tickets but you can only have 2 for anyone aged 12-17?

What the fúck’s that about?

Is there anything we could/should be doing as fans? Other than complaining via e-mail.

I would also like to hear more from the club/trust about the Halifax situation. They should be seeking further and more specific clarification from WYP regarding why we've had such a heavily restricted following. It's not out of the realms of possibility that we may end up going to The Shay again in the playoffs at the end of the season. Would they pull the same shit again in a playoff match?

The public safety thing is an absolute pisstake. We're no more of a threat than fans of other clubs. I've done 6 away games so far this season and I haven't seen anything even close to a jot of trouble in the grounds, in the pubs or at any stations despite being goaded by pretty much every set of home supporters, a reasonable number of players and even one set of managerial and backroom staff.

Apparently the club have been fighting back on things with other clubs and seem to have good relationships with them, but I don't know exactly what they can be expected to do. We can't enforce our own ticketing policies on other clubs. It would however be interesting to know what reasons we're being given for being inconvenienced on what is now an almost weekly/fortnightly basis,

Quoted from KingstonMariner

It’s shite isn’t it. I’d like to see a comment from the club and Trust about this at the very least. Really they ought to be working with their opposite numbers at other clubs to challenge these measures in future as I’m sure we won’t be the only ones affected like this. I remember the police turning back a coach of Wrexham fans on the way to BP not do many years ago.

I don’t expect to be prevented from going somewhere because the bloke down the road committed a crime. This is treating everyone who shares an interest as guilty by association. In any other aspect of life this would be regarded as immoral and illegal.

That Wrexham incident was an absolute joke. They knew some people with banning orders had bought tickets and could have stopped them getting on the bus. Fairly sure this was a push back from Humberside police because the club weren't going with their recommendations for a long while

Oh and also, I've got best mates who are Blackpool fans and they've told me that their allocation on Boxing Day away at Huddersfield is 2336 which I think is the full allocation they give now that they've put massive adverts over loads of the seats.

Honestly if the club can't publically challenge these statements then all the "our fans are brilliant" statements and the official GTFC twitter Facebook putting out videos of our "amazing away support" all seems a bit hollow.

I'm disappointed there has been nothing official from the club. They've got most things absolutely right since the change in ownership but there should have been something communicated by now.

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

I'm disappointed there has been nothing official from the club. They've got most things absolutely right since the change in ownership but there should have been something communicated by now.

There were a few tweets the other day but no explanation as such as to why we as Grimsby fans are being discriminated against    

https://twitter.com/DebbieCGF/status/1465263933590315011?s=20

https://twitter.com/GTFC_SLO/status/1465055401918050312?s=20

I would be very disappointed at this point if the club do not release a statement. It is one thing moving the kick off to 12.30, it is another thing to make it all ticket and it is a whole different other to limit tickets to 1200. Also be great if we could get some coverage in a well-read national broadsheet, such as ohh...the Guardian?

So Blackpool have been allocated 2366 at Huddersfield, Harrogate 1500 at Bradford  (but are unlikely to sell them all). It would appear WYP feel like they'll be stretched and have decided that of a Championship game, a west Yorkshire derby and division 5 fixture, we're the easiest to pick on.

Edit: also Bradford aiming to break thwir division 4 record attendance of 17900 so there'll probably have a lot more rozzers  than is usual. If it is because WYP think they'll be stretched, why don't they or either of the two clubs admit as much? Instead of having to read trite shite about the public safety of the fine citizens of Calderdale from rampaging hordes of fish filleters

No doubt if the entire day passes without incident then West Yorkshire constabulary will put that entirely down to a highly organised and effective police operation by them, they won't give any praise at all to the grimsby fans who were very well behaved, but if there's any hint of trouble they will solely blame us all and they will make out everything they did in the build up and on the day of the game was perfect!

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

I'll no longer be able to bring my 6 and 8 year old sons or my 77 year old Dad so that should be a considerable relief to the local community.

Thank god. That's 3 less hooligans 👀

All joking aside. It's redicilous.