Leeds away has been made Category A, so we will have to fork out £27.

Is our reputation still that bad to warrant the game again being classed as a category A? I know the clubs act on police advice but l have never seen any problems when Hpool play Leeds

large away following = great opportunity to make money for Leeds.

I'm Not going now that is outrages £27 as Parmo says we will take a few lets rip them off.

Its not just our fans you know, them not a season pass holder will have to pay Cat. A rates too.

Why bother going, I think a draw is the best we can hope for.
Leeds is not a pleasant place to visit as an away fan, I'll be giving it a miss

I shall be going and stay with my bro and get mashed on the night! get in!

there was trouble in the pub that's facing the away end last season. lucky enough we just got out a couple of minutes before it started.

PS don't go in the chippy facing the away end its minging

I'm leaning towards concurrence.

That's a piss take almost thirty pounds to watch third tier football, and the only reason is because we sold 3,000 tickets last year and probably could have sold more. The robbing bastards.

Last year was a rip off at £25, but now I've seen Pools play at Elland Road.

No wonder the Monetary Policy Committee can't reduce interest rates with inflation running at 8%.

Concurring again.

So where shall we meet up for a pint before kick off?

The Peacock pub if I remember rightly

Now that IS breaking news.

As long as people keep paying the price, they'll keep squeezing the money out of you.

I knew you were a closet yakker!!!

Or do I mean just a closet....

If I'd didn't live a couple of bus rides away from the stadium...I'd save my money and go to a nice friendly ground like Leyton Orient and pay a little more on the trains rather than get ripped off by Leeds.

To be honest the atmosphere before and after the match was hostile to say the least.

Before the match I was on one of those shuttle buses and I witnessed a complete and utter twat of a man (and I mean twat, a real low life scumbag, complete pratt, the kind of tosser this world would be better off without, a real kunt, I mean a real total twat) do a cut throat sign to two young Hartlepool fans (about 8 or 9ish) as one of the supporter's buses passed our shuttle bus. Amongst some very hostile words. I dont know why they were so offended by little old Hartlepool going to their stadium.

I know it's only a minority blah blah blah but some of the pratts I witnessed that day really did taint my view of the club.

All that aside....to be fair, I met a lot of decent Leeds fans in the first half of our last reserve game against them. So they're not all bad.

But £27 for a repeat of the experience many of us last time, does it seem worth it? If it wasn't my nearest match of the season (home and away) then I'd be very borderline.

They've got more chance of seeing me in a pools shirt with Humphreys on the back that getting me in there for £27. Stuff 'em!

plus Pools won't have gotten rid of their big ground/big crowd stagefright - we'll lose there without a shadow. I'll be glad when that game's out of the way and we can concentrate on winning the other away games.
Before anyone says it's defeatist - yes it is but Mad John's stats about Pools in front of big crowds tells a shocking story - not a single, solitary win in front of any crowds of more than 20,000 people in 100 years. It's not gonna change at Leeds.

Leeds will be my first away trip of the season im ashamed to say.

It'll only be my 2nd like. Leicester being the 1st. Aye we got beat.