Huddersfield away - not a great experience

InglebyUTB

InglebyUTB

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I know people moan about the segregation at the Riverside being too big (and in some instances it has been) but having attended the match on Saturday with minimum segregation I can understand why it’s needed. Huddersfield provided minimal segregation, and I’ve never seen so many items thrown. At times we were showered with coins, with several kids in the area. It looked like 2 lads sustained head injuries as a result.

Before the game more arguments with people being in other people’s seats. I had people in our seats when we got to them before the game, after some discussions they left but then a few rows down two Boro fans almost got into fisticuffs over being in someone’s allocated seat. Consequences of allocated seating in popular games when people are in different priority windows, they’ll just stand in their group wherever they can and not give a damn about others who’ve bought seats together in the same window.

Add to that the result and it was a pretty rubbish day.
 
Add to that some of the most overzealous policing I've seen in year































































West Yorkshires finest closed the bar in Wetherspoons and told all Boro to leave. There was no trouble going on. Seemed like overkill











After the game formed a corden and got a 47 mile police escort back to the North Yorkshire County boundary. Great use of public money
 
Yeah agree with the policing. That escort out of Huddersfield seemed to go on forever.

Genuinely embarrassing by the police. What a waste of money and time.
 
Its my intention to speak to Cleveland police on Friday about this. I've found that if you go to the source (West Yorkshire ) they start asking for names and addresses not to follow up your complaint but for other reasons sadly
 
Disappointed to read about some Boro fans not caring about occupying other peoples allocated space, thats not on, selfish doesn’t cut it. I haven’t been to an away game this season due to personal circumstances, but i was at quite a few last year and i found behaviours are mixed, fine if you are around families and small mixes of mates, but if you find yourself around the odd larger group of folk having had a fair bit to drink or having partaken in other substances, it can be a horrible experience. I was caught up near one such group last year and a couple of them clearly didn’t attend home games and were just there with mates for the day out on the lash.

As tickets are harder to come by, how are such folk getting hold of tickets? Is it people using other season card holders to obtain tickets on their behalf, the fact that people are in groups suggests it was when grouped together (nobody on that occasion claimed others were in their seats), although as indicated by the OP, some may also be abusing the allocation system once inside.

The away day experience can be fantastic, and that is down to the still majority of decent people following Boro away, but if you get unlucky it can spoil what otherwise should be a good day win, lose or draw.
 
We went by minibus on Saturday which was booked before train strike called off. We parked in the coach park(£15 to park there FFS.) Our plan was to stop off at Wetherby for an hour and get fish and chips at the Wetherby Whaler. The police only let all the coaches out together which is fair enough but then proceeded to give an escort all the way to Wetherby. Apparently after that we are in North Yorkshire Police jurisdiction. They had police cars in front and behind the convoy of coaches and numerous police on motorcycles. These went ahead and blocked off every turn off between Huddersfield up to and including Wetherby. Absolutely crazy. Will not be going by that method of transport to Huddersfield again. Hopefully we will go up and they will go down.

Our minibus was a cross section of people from 11 to 69 with most being late 50's to early 60's. Absolutely no excuse for the treatment football fans get sometimes with no right of argument with the police.
 
asredastheycome said:
We went by minibus on Saturday which was booked before train strike called off. We parked in the coach park(£15 to park there FFS.) Our plan was to stop off at Wetherby for an hour and get fish and chips at the Wetherby Whaler. The police only let all the coaches out together which is fair enough but then proceeded to give an escort all the way to Wetherby. Apparently after that we are in North Yorkshire Police jurisdiction. They had police cars in front and behind the convoy of coaches and numerous police on motorcycles. These went ahead and blocked off every turn off between Huddersfield up to and including Wetherby. Absolutely crazy. Will not be going by that method of transport to Huddersfield again. Hopefully we will go up and they will go down.

Our minibus was a cross section of people from 11 to 69 with most being late 50's to early 60's. Absolutely no excuse for the treatment football fans get sometimes with no right of argument with the police.
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Sorry to hear about your experience.

It’s got to the point now where I prefer the games further away. Cardiff was a long drive but I just pulled up at the hotel, we got a taxi into the centre and we went round the pubs with no bother and got on great with the locals.

The local games like Sunderland and Huddersfield which should be far easier to get to you’re just treated like animals.
 
InglebyUTB said:
Sorry to hear about your experience.

It’s got to the point now where I prefer the games further away. Cardiff was a long drive but I just pulled up at the hotel, we got a taxi into the centre and we went round the pubs with no bother and got on great with the locals.

The local games like Sunderland and Huddersfield which should be far easier to get to you’re just treated like animals.
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Absolutely IngelbyUTB , I’ve recently done both Cardiff and Swansea , and while the good results helped the days to be even better , they both were great. I know not everyone can do it this way , but going the day before and having a stop over then just taking your time , doing your own thing is great… tend to meet friendly locals ( at Swansea they wanted to walk us to ground so we could carry on the chat) … the long hauls tend to weed out a fair few I guess, local games seem to be harder to sort now.
 
InglebyUTB said:
Sorry to hear about your experience.

It’s got to the point now where I prefer the games further away. Cardiff was a long drive but I just pulled up at the hotel, we got a taxi into the centre and we went round the pubs with no bother and got on great with the locals.

The local games like Sunderland and Huddersfield which should be far easier to get to you’re just treated like animals.
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Absolutely.
The more far flung games with sub 2k travelling tend to be more enjoyable.
The atmosphere at Norwich this season was brilliant, better than some of the 4k turnouts, which also attract a lot of the antisocial brigade.
 
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I was on the 10:17 train from Darlington to Huddersfield. Unfortunately it decided not to stop at Huddersfield and after its Dewsbury stop went straight on to Manchester. So I had to get off at Dewsbury and get a taxi into Huddersfield. It was the same situation going back as well.

Then there is the concourse....
When is a concourse not a concourse?
When it is outside.
Thank heavens it didn't rain.

How a relative new and modern stadium can have facilities like this is mind boggling.
Queueing up at half time for a drink was an experience and not a particularly pleasant one.

Then there was the teams performance..... :censored:

UTB
 
Comforts_comforter said:
I was on the 10:17 train from Darlington to Huddersfield. Unfortunately it decided not to stop at Huddersfield and after its Dewsbury stop went straight on to Manchester. So I had to get off at Dewsbury and get a taxi into Huddersfield. It was the same situation going back as well.

Then there is the concourse....
When is a concourse not a concourse?
When it is outside.
Thank heavens it didn't rain.

How a relative new and modern stadium can have facilities like this is mind boggling.
Queueing up at half time for a drink was an experience and not a particularly pleasant one.

Then there was the teams performance..... :censored:

UTB
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The regular trains weren't stopping at Hudds due to engineering works.
We had to change at Leeds both ways.
The other option was a change at Dewsbury.
 
coluka said:
Disappointed to read about some Boro fans not caring about occupying other peoples allocated space, thats not on, selfish doesn’t cut it.
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I had it once before the points system came in, since then it's happened several times.

Most are ok and shift, but you often get the odd idiot drunk or coked up telling you to "f*** off".

It's not a massive problem if there's 1-2 of you but if other people are in your seats try finding a space for 4 people together that doesn't mean going in other people's seats in creating further problems.
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
Absolutely.
The more far flung games with sub 2k travelling tend to be more enjoyable.
The atmosphere at Norwich this season at Norwich was brilliant, better than some of the 4k turnouts, which also attract a lot of the antisocial brigade.
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I honestly wouldn't be fussed if I didn't go to the likes of Huddersfield and Barnsley away again. Those type of games tend to attracted too many people who are smashed or coked off their heads acting like idiots and the local policing and restrictions are ridiculous.

Like I say at Cardiff the four of us picked our pub in the city centre, we had our colours on but we were welcomed in, watched the early kick-off with a few pints and something to eat, group of Welsh rugby fans were in there and very friendly, had some great banter with them. Got a taxi to the stadium and didn't see any police until we were outside the turnstile.

Got inside and our allocated seats were blocked off but they said to us just choose where you want to stand, no issues.

Other than directly outside the ground no police afterwards.

Walked back into the city centre and had a few pints and chatted to Cardiff fans who were staying out for the rugby.

I'd rather do that sort of thing than a local game being told where we can and can't stop by police, which pubs we can and can't go in, told we have to drink up and get out by the police, escorted to the ground, held back, escorted out the ground, etc.
 
I have noticed fans seating/standing where they like at quite a few games. as said it could be due to higher demand for tickets will away sell outs now common.

I didn't go to Huddersfield, but interesting there are complaints about the quality of the experience £15 to park, concourse out in the open. Sometimes our fans take it for granted they will be able to park cheaply of free, have a fully covered concourse and spacious seating with good views, because they have that at the Riverside and they will say its 20% more expensive for a ticket, but you are not always getting like with like.
 
Only done 1 away game this season, Norwich, it was a brilliant day, great atmosphere and an away end full of genuine fans. As many have suggested the longer journey tends to put off the non football lads just out on a sesh. Witnessed some absolute idiots on the shorter away trips over the years,
 
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