My Mrs and I were walking back to the car, some poor Wigan fan on his own was copping a load of verbal from inebriated Leeds fans and foolishly tried to debate a few things, then surrounded by Leeds fans my Mrs and I and copped a load of abuse whilst minding our own business. 40-50 year old blokes hanging out of cars shouting “F****** get back to Wigan” and a big gang of young lads, inebriated making a beeline for me shouting “Tomkins is w******”, I’m not related to him funnily enough?!, even Leeds fans were saying “ignore them” stuff like that. My Mrs is new to Rugby League and it’s a sad day when I go to a game and get a load of verbal for wearing an opposition shirt, football mentality I’m afraid and makes Leeds fans look like thugs.

I'm under no illusion that there are elements of fans in every club like this but this was way over the top, I was on my own with my Mrs and it has left a poor taste in our mouths about Leeds fans and the sport today.

I will be writing to the RFL and Mr Hetherington on Monday to put my point across, if I get a response I will relay it on here.

P.s. Leeds totally derserved it today.

Is this the thread where we all bring up our past experiences with the opposition's fans when we lose ?
Shall I write to the RFL and report the time my mate and I were attacked by Wigan fans and I couldn't work for two weeks due to the injuries I received ?
Or should I write and tell the RFL about the time I put myself in the firing line between some eejit Rhinos fans having a go at some Wigan fans and I put a stop to a potential problem ?
I wish we didn't have this problem in our sport , but we do , and I can't see it going away .
Apologies to you and yours for the behaviour of the eejits today . Trust me when I say we ain't all of that mentality . Best wishes for the rest of the season , and see you at Wemb...... Ooooops

There does seem to be incidents of this nature after "big games" between most of the top clubs unfortunately.
I did also think it could be much worse with the 5.30KO and plenty of time for tools who cant handle their ale to get blitzed.
I will definately say we are not all like this and you just got unlucky to be near some gloits today and it's obvious you were easy targets unfortunately.
I hope it doesn't put yer mrs off RL because i think its a great sport and more often than not you can go to games without any grief before ,during or after ANY game and mingle with opposition fans.

i can relate to this post im a hull fc fan and my x wife is hull kr and we used to go and watch either fc or kr at home depending on who were playing i used to go to old craven park and stand behind the dug out wearing fc shirt and have good banter with kr fans and she would stand in3penny with me in a rovers shirt and no one would give us grief! ffs its a game we are passionate about and we still have a laugh about our teams theres no need to have a go at opposing fans! i remember going to wembley with school in the late 70,s when leeds beat widnes and saints and having a good crack with both sets of fans. i know fc fans have a rep for been dicks but they are in small minority anyway rant over and well done l$$ds and lets hope the giants win....................heres hoping!!

Pissèd up, aggressive chavvy Leeds fans are nothing new.

But they, and quite a few others, need to urgently get over their obsession with Sam Tomkins. It was just embarrassing seeing middle-aged men with kids desperately giving Tomkins the finger every time he was near the Leeds end and howling at him like drunken jackals.

I find it strange that fans never get attacked when they win. Crazy, to me that would make more sense(although still wrong).

I have been on 3 boards on here so far and you have posted the same message on them all. Why?

In answer to the OP question - No, they are not.

To offer a reply to the letter that he won't yet have written to the RFL and Leeds Rugby Ltd, "We are sorry that you found your enjoyment to be spoiled by the behaviour of a small number of aggressive supporters, but the control of the crowd outside of the ground is, blah, blah, blah", the reply is probably already written in "Standard Reply #42".

I'm only surprised that this is the first time that you have ever come across aggressive drunken behaviour by moronic males who seem to take some sort of delight in aggressive drunken behaviour, as if that were some sort of "norm" in their social circle, and maybe it is.

Don't worry, move on, you are better than they are and the only downside is that they will die of kidney and liver destruction in their 40s and you will pick up the bill via the NHS.

To be fair to every decent law abiding supporter of the game, this is not a problem that pervades one club, town or area. It is a society wide problem and needs to be addressed at that level. We are just fortunate that our sport has, on the whole, not attracted too many of he undesirables.

It comes down to how you're brought up, simple as that. You either have respect for others because, you have been given that life lesson, or you don't. Regrettably, far too often, the latter is the case.

So you've basically come on here and moaned because you lost?
Yes we know we have idiot fans, as does everyone else in SL.
Why come on here and try and put a dampner on things?!
I could say the say thing about Wigan fans and the abuse myself and my dad received before the game but what's the point? It's not going to get you anywhere.

Talking of Wigan fans, fighting amongst yourselfs again yesterday was it behind the posts?

I would suggest that Leeds fans are the last to call other clubs supporters for that particular activity at showpiece games...

Once again, two words.

Bog Brush.

...nuff said.

A group of four Leeds vermin were ejected from the seats behind us yesterday, shortly after showering the people I was with in beer.

IMO it's not acceptable to dismiss the Wigan fan's complaints as sour grapes. Even if I didn't see this incident I saw plenty of evidence yesterday of this kind of behaviour by Leeds fans. And it's not a worthy argument to say, "every other club is just as bad". Who cares? A not insubstantial number of aggressive and unpleasant scum follow Leeds and we shouldn't be afraid to accept that fact and see if it can be dealt with (the fact that it probably can't be is also not sufficient reason to ignore it).

It's easier to just pen them in at the back of the South Stand so they don't come into contact with opposition fans inside the ground. Once they are outside on the streets, it's not the club's problem any more. They're more than happy to take the bar profits they generate though.

It's been an issue over the last ten years that the club have paid less than lip service to in the pursuit of profit.