Really hope you're right on that score. Unfortunately both clubs have their fair share of hot-heads who have caused bother in the past. Think the kick-off time may be vital. If it's a 17:30 start there will likely be some very 'well-oiled' individuals in the ground just itching for an excuse to kick-off.


As you say, hopefully all will pass without incident (whatever the final score) and the City doesn't find itself on the Ten O' clock news for all the wrong reasons. The City sometimes gets a kicking from the national media for all the wrong reasons, let us hope this isn't one of those occasions.

Isn't the horse racing now on ITV? In which case our game will be in direct competition with it. A shame as I still like to watch the National, a great sporting spectacle. Also, unless the BBC up their coverage standards of recent weeks, we'll look like amateur hour again. The  games they've shown so far this year have felt like a throwback to Grandstand 1975 when they used to shoe-horn the second half of games into a spare half-hour during a Saturday afternoon. Our game last Saturday had Tanya Arnold and Kevin Brown doing about three different jobs apiece! Is this a part of the cutbacks in BBC sport I wonder.

Hull Live seem to think Rovers have to be given 7k tickets (30%) which is a logistical dilemma. Remains to be seen what the Police demand.

How many have they been allocated for Good Friday (presumably North stand only)? If the extra overspill means upper West then, as you say, it may pose a logistical dilemma given recent experience. 

Not exactly the same odds though is it

3,700 for Good Friday, they have had 7k at a derby before but that was in the good old days of sharing the West Upper, before things got a bit nasty.