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Quote: pmack17 "Apologies I didnt intend to accuse or portray all Cas fans as I am sure the vast majority behaved like the majority of RL fans.

However there were some rather abusive fans who were extremely intimidating - this was outside the Polypipe stand just after the game.

My 1st reaction was that I was very glad I didnt bring my 4 year old newphew, which is not the type of thought I would ever want attending an RL match.'"


From both sets of supporters- if you're going to tell stories at least tell it from both points of view.

For no apparent reason some vastly over-weight Leeds fan decided to shout at me that I "was only F*ck*ng jealous" because he was going to Wembley (Not sure if any children were around, but my girlfriend was)......turns out he was wrong, as I'm going to Wembley anyway (unsure who I am supporting as yet as I'm not keen on either team)- I wouldn't put too much cash on him going to Wembley though, three weeks is a long time and a lot a strain on a heart pumping blood around an ox that size!!

From what I have heard there were no punches thrown and no arrests (2 people went onto the playing field of which none were cautioned) so the police can't of been too concerned about the fan rivalry.

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Quote: pmack17 "

this was outside the Polypipe stand just after the game.
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The same stand i was in and the same stand i walk out of 5 mins after the penalty was taken.
I saw no trouble physical or verbal apart from one young lad with glasses on who was by himself.
He seemed to have had a few to many and was giving the leeds fans some verbal.
In saying that half dozen loiners were giving him it back verbally and with the middle finger.

Both cas and leeds fans walked back to there buses which must have been close together cos we all walked the same way. No problems what so ever. Infact the loiners looked subdued and you would have thought they had lost the game. Of cause some are gonna go OTT all teams have them sort of supporters. Passions were running high and all us cas fans were so frustrated with the result, no excuse for causing trouble, but some just cant control there emotions. And sport is all about emotion/passion. Take that away and it would be boring.

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Just looks like another case of "let's make things about Cas fans up"...like a Wakey fan who said a Wakefield fan was jumped on Wheldon Road after the game, only he out of the thousands of people on the road happened to see it and he didn't report it.

Quote: let's make things about Cas fans up "The same stand i was in and the same stand i walk out of 5 mins after the penalty was taken.
I saw no trouble physical or verbal apart from one young lad with glasses on who was by himself.
He seemed to have had a few to many and was giving the leeds fans some verbal.
In saying that half dozen loiners were giving him it back verbally and with the middle finger.

Both cas and leeds fans walked back to there buses which must have been close together cos we all walked the same way. No problems what so ever. Infact the loiners looked subdued and you would have thought they had lost the game. Of cause some are gonna go OTT all teams have them sort of supporters. Passions were running high and all us cas fans were so frustrated with the result, no excuse for causing trouble, but some just cant control there emotions. And sport is all about emotion/passion. Take that away and it would be boring.'"


Now no, don't be using facts when there's a chance to make things up about Cas.

Just wait from Smokey to come along now and say something about Gareth Thomas for some reason that only he knows why.

Here is the question though - if it was as bad, as you try and make it out why didn't the police do anything? Sounds like someone was being overly precious if the police didn't see fit to intervene at any point.

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Quote: TURFEDOUT "Highley unlikely as the majority live with their sisters/brothers/cousins in the same council tax band A house.

Added to that ive never heard anything as ridiculous -- Cas fans paying there council tax!!!!!

unlike Agbrigg rd where there are 15 people per property.

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Wow,great thread,2 pages and not a single piece of factual evidence to back the OP's original comment up.

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Quote: 007 "Wow,great thread,2 pages and not a single piece of factual evidence to back the OP's original comment up.'"


Well ill give some factual evidence then. Walking into the ground we had 4 children in our group......aged from 4 up to 7. They were singing come on you fords etc etc as we walked down. A man in a Rhinos shirt about 50ish decided to call our children f##ki## inbred c u next tuesdays!!!! He was in a group of 5 and the woman of the group had a right go at him aswell as all the adults in our group. Quite frankly he is lucky i didn't smack him in the face tbf and I'm a woman!!

You will see i didnt call the said person a Leeds FAN - because people like him are a disgrace to the game! We all have them as clubs though and I take offence to the OP making sweeping generalisations about us as cas fans. When making a post like that be careful to give a balanced view!! If you think Leeds don't have people that are idiots then you are blinkered! This wasn't the first time my kids have suffered abuse from Rhinos but i still dont say all Rhinos are the same!!!

Tbh I didnt expect how gracious the Leeds fans were and have been so for those of you that took your victory so graciously I applaud you eusa_clap.gif

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I saw one cheap shot punch by a cas fan the leeds fans where heading one way past the side stand to go towards the hills and the lake and the cas fans coming the other. Some guy must have been early 40s punched a leeds fan totally unprovoked then made a run for it. on the flip side i was speaking to a cas fan walking back around to where the vue cinema and doncaster dome is and hed been punched by a leeds fan for apparently no reason. Police where sorting something outside the main side stand too on the grass not quite sure what went off there. you could quite clearly tell allot of the cas fans where gutted but they should realise its just a game and not resort to abuse and violence.

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Quote: trigger "I saw one cheap shot punch by a cas fan the leeds fans where heading one way past the side stand to go towards the hills and the lake and the cas fans coming the other. Some guy must have been early 40s punched a leeds fan totally unprovoked then made a run for it. on the flip side i was speaking to a cas fan walking back around to where the vue cinema and doncaster dome is and hed been punched by a leeds fan for apparently no reason. Police where sorting something outside the main side stand too on the grass not quite sure what went off there. you could quite clearly tell allot of the cas fans where gutted but they should realise its just a game and not resort to abuse and violence.'"


So what do you say to the Leeds fan who resorted to violence when he punched the Cas fan?

Oh no that's right lets just mention the Cas fans again. Muppet.

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Yeah but no but.

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what about the leeds fan a big bloke in his late 20's early 30's and his loud mouth girl friend who decided to gloat to a group of what looked like middle aged women waiting by the exit to the car park when they told them to move along the idiot decided to throw what looked like a carton which had food at one of the women and then followed it with something else which I couldn't see althoug someone said it was a large stone but i can't say thats what is was for certain then they started f'in and blindin at the group the police became involved and had to chase after the bloke and his girl friend they managed to mingle into the crowd then the girlfriend decided to come back and have another go at which point the police got the pair of them. So lets face it every team has idiots lets not tar a whole teams fans just because an idiot lets us down

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Quote: Redchemic "

Yeah but no but.'"

Your wife?

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Quote: JTrules "Well ill give some factual evidence then. Walking into the ground we had 4 children in our group......aged from 4 up to 7. They were singing come on you fords etc etc as we walked down. A man in a Rhinos shirt about 50ish decided to call our children f##ki## inbred c u next tuesdays!!!! He was in a group of 5 and the woman of the group had a right go at him aswell as all the adults in our group. Quite frankly he is lucky i didn't smack him in the face tbf and I'm a woman!!

You will see i didnt call the said person a Leeds FAN - because people like him are a disgrace to the game! We all have them as clubs though and I take offence to the OP making sweeping generalisations about us as cas fans. When making a post like that be careful to give a balanced view!! If you think Leeds don't have people that are idiots then you are blinkered! This wasn't the first time my kids have suffered abuse from Rhinos but i still dont say all Rhinos are the same!!!

Tbh I didnt expect how gracious the Leeds fans were and have been so for those of you that took your victory so graciously I applaud you If you read the whole thread you will find that the OP is talking about the Cas fans and not the Leeds samaritans,I am a Cas fan and was making the point that all this thread amounts to is "He said she said" if there was any goading or swearing it was coming from both sets of supporters,not just one.

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Quote: 007 "unlike Agbrigg rd where there are 15 people per property.'"


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I think we can all agree that every club has it's fair share of idiots, some clubs like Cas just have more than their fair share. It's just one of the facts of life, but again the majority of Cas fans are well behaved and still passionate, without resorting to this sort of thing. Or the Gareth Thomas episode, or the bottle throwing episode etc.

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Cas are a great club in so many ways but their fans keep letting them down. My sister had some trouble with one at The Stoop this year, nothing too serious but not nice for her. This was the only opposition fan Ive seen cause any trouble at London this season. I genuinely like Cas and was gutted they lost to Leeds but if they care about their club these fans need to either drink less on game days or learn to handle their booze and act like grown ups.

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