Does it really matter which club they were from? The fact is a great player and servant to our game has tragicaly lost his life and we as fans of a great sport should respect that. As a Wigan fan, who was surrounded by Saints and Leeds fans on Saturday night, it was humbling to see them, to a one, stand and pay their respects, you literally could hear a pin drop. These are the people we should mention and applaud, and leave the sad pathetic excuses of human beings to rot.
We as people all make mistakes, some more than others, and there have been players who have committed as bad, if not worse offences, tarnishing the sport we love. Fighting outside nightclubs, beating people up at train stations, breaking into peoples homes, selling dodgy gear on the net, betting on your own team to lose, all committed by top flight rugby league players, yet all too quickly forgotten, and without the same condemnation. I'm not trying to make excuses for Terry, or somehow condone the taking of performance enhancing drugs, but he made a mistake, was caught and took his punishment.
Love him or loathe him, Terry was a great player and his loss is a tragedy to the sport.
Once again, to the thousands from across the game of rugby league, who did pay their respects on Saturday, good on you!

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Any reason for that?


It seems a bit harsh to be pinning this on one club. I presume that there were plenty of fans from several clubs in attendance, and so an entire fanbase doesn't deserve to be tarnished by (incorrect) claims that a group of 6 or so came from that particular club. No matter where they're from, the majority of their fanbase will have observed the silence fittingly and with the respect that was due.
Any criticism should be directed at the group of lads that were disrespectful. Not at a club.

And the 70-odd thousand attendees who observed the silence correctly should be applauded. Not all will have liked the player, but all will have understood the tragic circumstances surrounding Terry's death, and respect him for being a talented player, even if he was particularly irritating for your club. Well done to all of those.

Rubbish.

And now with some truth spoken and KR fans in the clear... phew, we watch this thread die away an fall into the virtual terrace history, never mind they'll be another Hull bashing thread along before long a'?

Its not rubbish its fact-HKR having this mythical massive following is just that, a myth.

As an afterthought this isnt the first time ive made comment about Hull fans at the Stoop

Good post mate,you were correct in saying a minority gets more attention than the people who respected the one minutes silence.

Rovers and Hull fans travel well, I've no doubt fans from the clubs you've stated travel well to, I've been to the stoop twice, ended up chatting in the bar afterwards with quins fans twice and been told twice how good our support is, not that I needed telling.

You don't like Hull then just be at peace with it an join the end of the long queue, mostly made up by bandwagoners, let's all get stuck into Hull again. This threads the perfect example...