True - I've been watching Widnes home and away for many years and we do have a moronic element to the fans which can come out at away games. It's usually pretty low level - beer throwing, and then foul mouth abuse to anyone who remonstrates with them and the odd scuffle amongst themselves and it gets passed off as 'boisterous' or down to aggressive stewards. I'll often go and sit in with the home fans at away games just to avoid it - again, it's usually nothing actually dangerous (bar the throwing of flares), just annoying, but left unchecked and unchallenged it eventually escalates into what we saw yesterday. Someone also tried to empty their drink over Silverwood after the Cas first try yesterday, but missed and just drenched his own fans who were already so wet no-one probably noticed - but if that guy had been sat a few rows nearer the front, we'd have been looking at another incident to make the news.

The club will take action - but banning orders, whilst symbolic, are pointless as they are unenforceable without some sort of membership scheme like they had in football in the 80's, and we are nowhere near at that level of problem. Anyone's mate can get anyone else a ticket - and it's unfeasible to check fans against photo records on the way in.

Just out of interested, was James Rule (our current CEO) at Hull in 2000? If so, at least he seems to have experience of helping to get stuff sorted out, so that is something to be hopeful for at least.

Today, I'm just ashamed - no-one in RL would begrudge Cas a Wembley trip this year (expect perhaps in Wakefield!), and to be honest I, and the majority of Widnes fans yesterday who understand and appreciate the game, don't mind getting well beaten by a superior team that plays RL in that way and thankfully their fans did them proud by not reacting. Good luck to Cas at Wembley.

Have they been named or banned yet ? Everything seemed to go quiet at the end of the season.

The club are working with Halton Council to issue the bans, should have something soon.

Widnes have two options. Ban the individuals themselves or lets Cheshire police take action (if applicable) and let the courts ban them. The difference (in basic terms), club ban means police can remove from ground.....court ban means police must arrest.

Widnes should be allowed to go after these 'fans' to recover costs.

What can I claim for?

You can receive compensation for a number of things, including
medical expenses;
travelling expenses

I should think they can sue for loss of earnings.