There's a few postings on here relating to "fickle fans" and those who didn't attend due to varying reasons. I for one can understand some of our supporters not wishing to pay their hard earned cash to watch a poor display from the team they follow.

My understanding is a fan is someone who is fanatical about the club they support, they don't miss games because their side isn't producing on the pitch, they don't pay £18 to enter the ground because they have a season ticket and they sing and chant for the full 80 minutes.

What I saw in the 2nd half in the WRE was passion from "fans" of our beloved Tigers. When the Wire support came into the WRE last night we saw that raw passion and the desire to not let the visitors take over our stand and to me this epitomised a fanatical following.

We do have "supporters" who pick and choose which games to watch and they will decide to watch the likes of Wigan v Leeds on Sky instead of going down the Lane, thats their choice but as I've said in my eyes they are supporters of our club but not fans.

There will be some out there who don't agree with the above but those of us who were in the WRE last night can truely call themselves fanatical followers of Cas Tigers and yes I will be at the next game and yes I will have a season ticket again next season and yes I was in the WRE last night.

i travelled to watch the mighty wire last night and i thought your fans were excellent , you didnt stop singing even though you got a good hiding

Interesting last night that almost all the Cas fans stayed to the final whistle, good to see you haven't resorted to the Wigan Walk.

At the end of the day, I may say things that have a dig at the club, I may show my frustration and anger at times with the players and the performances but despite a hiding, despite getting played off the park and despite showing the gulf in quality and depth between us and the next team, I will still be at the next home game, I will still get a ST and I will still follow my team. Regardless of division.

Cas fans will always have passion. When the fans are in we make the best atmosphere in the league, the crowd get behind the team and sing win/lose or draw. If you dont travel across to wigan on wednesday, get down on sunday in what is now surely a must win game for us, lose and we could be out of the play offs, so lets get behind the lads!

Cas Until I Die.

Check my Sig, WireFanatic said something quite profound when we had a similar discussion couple of years back and i loved it.



I love that

Don't forget the fanatical Cas fans who don't stand in the WRE!

I don't want to knock your support or passion for our club, and I know your intent is good, but don't start a dick measuring competition on who is the best fan because all you'll do is divide the fans. The WRE has always struggled to attract a few more fanatical vocal fans, often because some of the more vocal fans often think they are the only ones who are real fans. There are lots of fans who go home and away taking the whole family spending thousands on season tickets, shirts, mugs and the lot but they have never stepped foot in the WRE. We then see a teenager who's parents bought him a £40 season ticket and who's gran bought him a £40 shirt tell those other fans they're not doing their bit. Of course, you have tried to make the divide and ask the question of fans or supporters. This thread has been and gone before. Everyone has their own way of supporting their team. For some, getting to just a couple of games will be as demanding and they may have had to make more sacrifices than someone else who makes every game. In my opinion, it is time we united the fans rather than look for a divide.

my passion for cas does not die just becauce we lose a few games. i might get angrey at the way we play some times but ill still be watching CAS WHAT EVER happens this month.cas is in my blood .

Great post, i haven't stood in the WRE for over 15 years, but have only probably missed 2 games in that time, so i agree you don't have to stand in the WRE to be deemed a fanatical fan, that’s obviously unless i am not a proper fan.

Just sing up and show your support for the team you follow. We all have a place for Cas in our hearts, so instead of creating a divide and talking bull, get down the lane, shout on the boys and enjoy rugby league!

Take over our stand, grow up man, if its your stand then get the jungle segregated, the weldon end is full of spotty virgins who sing embarrasing songs and leg it at the 1st sign of any bother, there not passionate there foolish.and What the helll are you doing supporting cas if your from ponte ? do you not know what the Cas lads call the express you traitor

Quite right, he should switch to Fev and increase their support by 10%.

Word to the wise, if you're going to tell someone to grow up try to improve your grammar beyond pre-school standard.

Also, speaking of embarrasment and suspecting you're a 'capper' take a look at some of Sky's crowd shots from your game at Barrow...talk about a combined day trip from WMDC care facilities.

Good points Marshy but can I just say I stand in the PS and during our leaner periods it thins quicker than my hair. I only stand there for the view, by and large the company's awful although the atmosphere was better on Friday with all the usual knockers/whingers/whiners having predictably given it a miss.
The gaps towards each side of the WRE were disturbing...can't remember so much empty space in there, even for NL games.
Our reputation for loyalty in numbers is shot.

Lets put the facts on the table. The attendance on Friday, by Cas supporters/fans, in anticipation of a whallopping by the Wires.....was unusually poor. It was because of this that the WRE wasn't nearly as chocker as normal, leaving spaces for Wire fans to occupy during the 2nd half....at the scoring end of the pitch for their team.

Coming into the WRE in numbers when their team is not playing to score at that end, may be a different matter. In our sport I'd like to think not.....but keeping it real, I can see how some would think it was unnecessarily antagonistic. However, I for one would welcome visiting supporters into WRE as it only enhances the atmosphere......provided that idiots (home & away) don't let their testosterone boil over and remember that it is for atmosphere...not to out muscle each other in any other way.

I for one have had many discussions on this forum with others who have given the their opnion that visiting fans are neither an integral nor important part of the game!! So I'm certainly not now going to discourage them from enhancing the atmosphere. They could have congerred all the way round the ground for me, and I would have got on that conger train!!

The reason many are bickering on here, is because we are not currently winning games, nor do we look like winning either. There's barely a game that we can go into, where we can realistically regard the points as certainty!! Likewise there is a lot of anxiety in the air about the next stage of SL licensing. All of this adds up on the minds of fans/suppoprters!!


......C'mon guys get a grip, get yourselves back on the terraces, because it ain't going to improve matters by climbing back into the woodwork now. If nothing else do it for the youngsters coming through, give them the support and game atmosphere that will help keep them at the club! C'mon Cas!!!!

Unforunately due to some finanical difficulties, I have only been to a few home games this season, does this make me less of a fan?

I have supported Cas since a nipper and the weekly result can either give me a euphoric rush or a despondent downer. This is a club I love with all my heart and just because I don't have the money to follow them around (I have done in the past) it does not mean I care any less about them than the bloke who goes to every home and away game and buys the merchandise.

As for the WRE mob, some good lads but quite a few idiots who are an embarrassment to the club (Gareth Thomas anyone?), getting beered up and singing does not make you any more passionate to the cause than I.