I have a few problems with this response.

Firstly, and let's make this clear, the HF owe us absolutely nothing. They were formed by other fans over ten years ago when the atmosphere was pants. Now we're considered omg the best in the UK, and are admired even on the continent. So I've never really understood this rhetoric.

In my opinion, I believe one of the main reasons is that the club promised all of these things, and seemingly got quite far in negotiations, for the club to f*** up the unveiling massively (more on that later), and essentially hung them out to dry without ever accepting the partial blame for the situation. Also, it's not like they don't attend - I've met a few of them and they just moved from Block B to other places.

Finally, I don't think it's their fault for this. I think it's predominantly down to the club for me. This is because:

1) the club f***ed the unveiling up horrendously, where they released (before an important game) that members of the LH weren't allowed to renew their season tickets without any explanation why. Some people were understandably argue, but others used the HF as a scapegoat, where they received a lot of flak, and the club just allowed this to continue.

2) the club's statement was bitchy and, for me, sought to alienate rather than unite (which I felt the HF's latest statement did the opposite). The club's statement made seemingly false claims on the whole situation (explained next).

3) the club's statement said that members of Block E had been consulted, despite the fact that numerous Block E fans had said they had never been asked, which throws the club's statement into disrepute. This is more annoying, because who would believe a HF statement first, before the club's?

What I don’t get is why the HF are trying to blackmail the club ?

They are refusing to carry on unless they get their own way like spoilt brats. If they really have the club at heart then they should accept the clubs response , make preparations for when the new stand is ready or safe standing is legalised and carry on their good work from where they have been. It’s very simple !!
Their current strategy has zero chance of success. All they are doing is causing division among fellow fans as seen in this topic !!

No it doesn't. It actually says:

"News of the proposal leaked out and we received a large number of written and verbal objections from supporters in the area that would have been affected. Many of those supporters writing to us pointed out that they had been in their seats since the stand opened and were strongly opposed to what they saw as them being forced out of their seats."

Which is nonsense, because they announced that LH fans wouldn't be able to renew their STs on the CPFC website without any explanation. The only way I could see this being 'leaked' would be confusing leaked information with rumours on social media.

Many who were vexed as to why they could not renew in the LH rang the box office, who were instructed not to say anything. When pressed though they did give out basic info such as the HF want to move to the centre blocks to make a singing section.

This then went viral on twitter and facebook.

Club should have been ready with the actual full proposal before releasing any season tickets, so the lower tier weren't behind other parts of the ground