Harsh...

With the exception of Scully which is well documented the only others that seem to get stick are Teapot thats Griffin to you who said basically the same when he went to Hudds and also threatened to kick the sh!!!t out of a young fan for having the temerity to criticise him, and Sollo from a few when he pledged himself to the club while at the same time doing a deal behind the clubs back with the Bulls. I'm sure you will agree that the criticism is deserved to some extent.

You can also add Grix,Atkins,Drew and Snitchy as well as others to that list.

Which former Bulls players have copped abuse from the fans after they've gone to other RL clubs?

I can think of Fielden and Newlove off the top of my head in the SL era. And of those I'd say Platt gets more abuse than Fielden and he still plays for us


Before him I can only really remember Ford and Hanley getting much abuse.

And all because I didn't rate Deacon.

I'm guessing you missed this when another of your fans basically made exactly the same point you just did....




Just an observation. It may not be completely accurate, but I've certainly noticed it a lot more from your fans in recent times than any other.

I'm fairly sure Nathan Graham used to come in for a bit of grief from fans.

Nah, decent pro who left with a championship medal.

Good shout re Nathan Graham, honest pro, good utility value and unfairly blamed for Wembley 96, probably on for MoM until 'those bombs' went up and at this point he received no help from his team mates

I didn't say it was founded criticism, but he got some right stick from a fair few fans. In the '96 final I agree that Goulding's bombs were absolutely inch perfect and to say Graham had little protection from his team mates was an understatement.

Person I blame for not responding to the "bombs" in the 96 cup final was Brian Smith (the coach) everyone in the ground could see the what was happening after the second bomb. The one person who could do something was Smith he did nothing until the fourth bomb, then it was to late.

Remember we had an ex internal full back in the team, who could have been move to F/B to counter the bomb tactics

I thought that the rest of the team was at fault in part for not giving Graham the protection he needed to catch the ball. On each occasion the Saints chasers had a free run toward him and thus had the momentum to leap higher and contest the ball in the air. If some of our defenders had got in the way of those runners legally or even done a "Keith Senior" Graham would've had the time and the space to diffuse the bombs safely.

You're probably right although he's not the first player it's happened to and he certainly won't be the last. To be honest, it's not great when a player is singled out for abuse in this way - even as a Leeds fan, I feel quite sorry for the amount of flak that Meli's taken from Sts fans for example.

Harkin, Skerrett