after attending every final since 92 today will be my last. i'm sick to death of coming away having had the game spoilt by drunken,foulmouth people who insist on spoiling it for everyone else.
i witnessed it all today. fighting,beer throwing the lot.
4 twentysomething leeds fans behind me spilt pint after pint, smoked, never stopped swearing from start to finish and generally were absolute pricks.
one other leeds fan was threatened when he had words and i had to step in and tell them in no uncertain words to behave or else.
its every big game you go to nowadays. internationals or finals and i've had enough.
speaking to people around me, not only leeds fans but mainly rhinos, and they felt the same.
decent people like to have a pint and watch the game but something needs to be done. at least at football its controlled. even if leeds get there next year i won't go. my grandson is nearly 2 and in time i would loved to have taken him to wembley but i wouldn't subject him to what is regularly taking place inside grounds

Oh...thats quite sad. Indicative of societyin general I am afraid

it is society yes but the RFL needs to crack down. its only time before there is a big crowd disturbance

Beer, some people shouldn't be allowed to drink. Cannot handle it.
We're we're you sat, we were sat by a similar group. On the tunnel side near Leeds end

must have been close. i was in the corner

Join the club, 2006 is the last final I went to and I don't see the point in paying a lot of money and going to a lot of trouble to travel to London, Cardiff etc just to end up watching the game surrounded by the sort of people that you'd actually avoid by a long distance if you only could - and worse still , having stewards who are unwilling or incapable of controlling such behaviour.

The smart answer is that you should pay more money, but I'm not willing to pay getting on for £100 to guarantee a seat where my neighbours can control their aggression - not when I have a much better and far more civilised view on my own TV set in my own house = or even at any of my local pubs where at least the landlord will have a word with anyone who steps out of line.

i did think about going corporate but its a dear enough day. like you i shall watch at home next year

The simple thing is to go to a steward, point them out, or a Police officer if one is available. I did have a similar incident with Wakefield fans, asked them to stop, got threatened, and then told them I had filmed them on my phone, and sent it to my son at home, which showed them making foul and abusive comments, threats of violence, and racist remarks, I told them if they carried on any more it was getting sent to the Police, and the club, funny enough they crapped themselves and kept very quiete. I didnt even have a phone, but it did the trick.

theres so many doing it. incidents all around the ground today. its simply not enjoyable anymore

One of the main reasons for this appaling behaviour is that the RFL have started giving clubs outside SL at least a number of Cup Final tickets in lieu of their prize money for the competitiion. Invariabley these are the tickets for the top tier and end up getting discounted just to get rid of them. Low and behold the idiots buy them cheap and spend the rest on booze and ruin decent folks' days out.

Let's get back to giving clubs the money they've won and selling tickets at face value, it will pay in the long run.

Pugwash.

Block 134 behind the sticks Leeds end 6 rows from front I witnessed goading, foul venomous language, spitting beer throwing pushing shoving and punching on two occasions by grown men in thier 40/50's

First instance where a guy in a red England Rl shirt actually got thrown out but it took 10 mins for this to happen and after all the above had happens end prior to any stewards reacting. Some Leeds fans 5 rows further back really don't help theirselves by throwing beer and spitting, all of which never got to the person intended but sprayed the innocent victims with families between.

Then at the end of the game more pushing and shoving. Stewards were informed and did nothing other than watch and stare!

As others have mentioned this behaviour is more frequent in the big games. But the stewards really don't help the situation.

The RFL should think about stop serving beer during games as its becoming a bind, up and down all game for people wanting toilets and more beers. Ruining others day expiernce!

I was embarrassed to be a Leeds fan today. I took my 4 year old son for the first time & we had a lovely day wandering round London and seeing the sights in the morning. Seeing the state of many "fans" walking up Wembley Way left me hoping we ended up sat around reasonable people.

Fortunately, we did however about 10 rows in front behind the posts was the beer throwing and fighting mentioned earlier. So much for a family game. MY wife and son would have been scared stiff if we'd been stuck in the middle of that.

I will never understand people who get so drunk before a game that they won't remember it afterwards - what is the point. You are spoiling the enjoyment for the majority who are there.

I hope the culprits are identified by the club and punished but I won't hold my breath.

Football is controlled because you can only drink beer on the concourse and not in the ground.

The RFL fail with this. And it is funny you started this thread because I said the exact same thing on way home. Beer should not be drunk in the ground. People can just not handle it.

We were sat in front of a drunken family of foul mouthed scrotes, who would not stop there little crap of a child constantly a mega phone pile of junk, which ended with him copying the dad and swearing through it.

It's not just alcohol in the ground. Some of these people are so drunk when they arrive there is no way they should be let in.

I'd love the RFL to be strong and say anyone severely under the influence of alcohol will be refused admission - it won't happen though.

Saw that Chaka we sat in row 22 in that block total set of pr!cks!