It was pretty obvious from the TV shots that there were a fair number of people in the Widnes end who were worse for wear with booze.

I won't call them 'Widnes fans' because they were quite possibly just local chavs who were attracted by the idea of a day out. And they obviously couldn't hold their ale

Lets' not detract from a terrific performance by Castleford

I think the club will come down hard, to be honest.

I guess it's pretty much accepted that it's society's problem and not [ireally[/i the clubs responsibility, but 'Local chavs', or 'not really Widnes fans' or not, rightly or wrongly they were in the Chemics section, presumably bought tickets from the Widnes ticket office and many were wearing club colours, so it reflects on the club and they have to be seen to be 'doing something'. I'm sure they will.

We'll get over it.

We've another moment to come yet as well.

Yep and you was propbably one of them



and you wouldnt of seen anything 1) because not happened and 2) your never there, stick to valley parade



And the last point it would help if you read what he actually put as wasnt saying we were violent he mentioned bad publicity to to financial woes

so he should have done. Theres no such thing as no comment in the pr world. Send him for more media training forthwith.

What it proved, if anything, is the utter idiocy of spending tens of thousands of pounds on dayglo "security" marshals surrounding the pitch looking like a set of garv=den gnomes, they never do anything, and apart from running about a bit into groups, leaving huge gaps wide open for morons to run through, they did little, and achieved nothing. I am not knocking them, btw, the point I am making is that having a cordon of dayglos around the pitch is an utter pointless waste of money, as they aren't allowed into the creowd in the highly unlikely event anything did kick off, and are as much use in stopping drunks invading the pitch as a twelve inch plastic picket fence..

Tear gas would have sorted this very quickly

Tear gas? You're going soft.

Perhaps, but shooting live rounds indiscriminately into the crowd just generates too much paperwork

Typical. I turned over to watch the cycling once Cas had it in the bag. Missed all the excitement.

I didn't see any of it on TV just a couple of k no bs that ran on the pitch when widnes scored.

From the vids I've seen after it wasn't exactly the huysel stadium disaster. I think hull in 2000 were a lot worse. A bit of rough housing that was about it really.

It was more loutishness than hooliganism.

A fine for widnes or a ban from the cc like queens were given and bans once the cops round the idiots up. But it's not the crisis for rl some people will have us believe. It's very very rare this sort of thing.

It was unsavory really. There are many videos going around you tube which were taken by members of the crowd who were appalled by their own fans.

The bits that stick out for me was when the fans went for the stewards, it was pretty clear that one of the fans spat in the stewards face, also the lad that ragged the Cas mascot's head off and started kicking it round like a football.

These 'fans' need banning! embarrassing to think they are associated with the sport