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

Spitting is assault and if convicted can carry a prison term .

It's also disgusting

I realise that only a very few actually threw a punch, but isn't there a charge of, 'actions likely to cause a breach of the peace'? If the whole episode was anything, it was that -at the [ivery[/i least. Though I guess the official punishment from the courts is the equivalent of a couple of 'hail Marys' and a promise not to do it again.

I suspect it will be down to the club to actually apply some sanctions; a few sine die bans maybe?

Nail, head. Breach of the peace is about as trivial as offences get, the sort of thing that you get a binding over or a conditional discharge. It's what they did collectively, and tried to do, but there is no way CPS is going to do them for that, which is why apart from one or two the criminal consequences will be basically inconsequential.


It will. And to pay their own fines, sadly.

I think that about sums it up FA, I found the most disgusting scene was when the Mascot was attacked, and in that instant the thug who did it, not only attacked a defenceless person, but the concept of our sport to the junior supporters of the future...The club mascot is revered by youngsters and the status is one of identifying and belonging to the club. He therefore could not retaliate as to do so would have put the whole concept of the club in jeopardy. That cowardly act epitomised the knuckledragger mentality as you rightly describe them.

Yes that scrawny little ginger tw@ deserved a right kicking.

I hope the cops smash his mum's front door off it's hinges when they go to arrest him and then charge him with riot.

Obviously that's a bit unlikely but if they are able to charge him with anything I hope they come to arrest him at work so he gets the sack.

That seems OK, but can we afford to ban fans? The game is going south, with long a's.

We can if we're seen to be making a big enough noise about doing it.

Never know they they might smash his Mums back door in.

I presume you're being humorous in some strange way but you'll have to explain it.

The game cannot afford not to.

While I don't have any official numbers to support it (and I am sure the current financial squeeze is a major factor) - but looking at the crowd at Odsal on Sunday compared to the glory days there seems to me to be far fewer families going to games now, and if the cost of the tickets doesn't prevent them going to games - the thought of having to put up with idiots like the ones at Wheldon Rd will.

So I would support the firmest possible action against the nutters

The LSV is in Wheldon Road?

Well, geographical faux pas aside, the sentiments are pretty much spot on.

Going back to the point about families, when I was a a kid we tended to follow our parents in going to matches, whereas today it seems that it's the kids who drive the activities, with parents running their offspring here, there and everywhere to follow [itheir[/i interests. The club needs the same kind of push it got when Peter Deakin came, and whilst it's definitely true to say that Peter Deakins don't grow on trees, we maybe need to be more youth oriented to attract them back?