WY Police want Town relegated ?

Having read the article in the Examiner last night, it seems this issue over the Sky game against Hull was first discussed in January, some 5-6 weeks ago.

The FL have to provide Sky a match for live screening for at least one game per season for Championship clubs. Sanctions are thus possible against clubs who may may cause a breach in the Sky contract, including, it seems, a 5 points deduction for any club failing to accommodate a Sky game.

WY Police have twice scuppered live Sky games at Town (Cardiff and Leeds), so knew that in also scuppering the Hull game, Town would be at serious risk of a 5 points deduction. But that didn't stop them once again refusing to police the match, and therefor denying the FL and Sky to fulfill their contract.

A secret meeting then took place with town 'begging' the WYP to cover the match and approve the screening of it. I say 'secret meeting', because I dare say no Town fans, and certainly not HTSA knew about this dire situation facing Town, especially as the consequences could almost certainly lead to Town being relegated given our current position.

In the end, the deal was struck, as we now know, and the conditions laid down by WYP to allow the game to go ahead have been well publicised.

Then they were announced to the general public yesterday in a newspaper article in the local rag, by Nigel Clibbens.

Hull City fans' fury, and the Town fans supporting them, was an understandable reaction to what seemed a totally ridiculous state of affairs.

Not only are Hull fans restricted to 1,500, but the game had to be made A* pricing category, had to be made all ticket and away fans had to travel on official coaches from Hull. Town had no option but to accept the demands laid down by WYP. They were backed into a corner by the FL, and the 5 point deduction threat.

It's now a done deal.

What I don't understand is why these situation wasn't revealed to any of the fans of either clubs beforehand. Why were we kept in the dark by HTAFC ?

We are now left with no alternative, no room to contribute or negotiate another deal and despite all the protests, the deal is done. Fans fury must have been guessed by Town in agreeing this deal, but they chose to keep it all quiet until it was all fixed and the game agreed for Sky viewing.

I'm not saying that if the fans had known what the negotiations were about that it would end up any different, but the fans certainly deserved to know, didn't we ?

Why were HTSA not involved, they had no idea what was going on behind the scenes and how inconvenienced both sets of fans were going to be. Why did HTAFC not liaise with the supporters representatives at HTSA ?

As you know, I've harped on before about poor communication between Dean Hoyle and the fans of Town, and I'm afraid this is just another example of the apparent disdain which we are held in. Pressure from the fans may well have yielded a better deal for both sets of fans, but we were not told about any of this until too late.

Even while Twitter went mental on the situation, no one from Town responded in any way...and still haven't. Just the article in the Examiner weeks after the decisions were made.

This total exclusion of fans in any discussions on the games played at the JSS, by HTAFC, is disgraceful, in my opinion, but not surprising considering previous lack of feedback and information from the club.

Town bombard us with Family stuff, sponsors, partners, raffles, shop promotions....etc..but miss the real issues such as this one.

Should Town have made these discussions known and let the fans know the proposals first..rather than just agreeing them and then telling us it's a done deal ?

No wonder the club are quiet about it all, a bit sheepish perhaps...