Footage shows Blacktown players raising their hands in mock victory, four of whom now face suspensions of up to ten years, while another eight are due to face a conduct review. ''It is not pleasant, it is not nice and we will come down very very hard,'' ARL chief executive Geoff Carr said. According to the manager of the Penrith junior league, Don Feltis, some of the Blacktown City parents gave high-fives to the players as they left the field. He called the attack ''the most disgusting embarrassment to the code of rugby league''.

Good to see firm action being taken.

they are australian

it doesn't suprise me

Its a disgrace but it happens in lots of sports nowadays.
You are just lucky that the civilized English have never had these sorts of problems.
England record with fan behaviour at Cas and Hull and Leeds has always been first rate even recently.
How are the Football fans going nowadays? no Clubs being banned from Europe for a few years is there?
People in Glasshouses and all.

With your name I would have thought it was right up your alley.

This happens (albeit not to the same extent) in rugby league and rugby union every weekend. Trust me...but we just don't hear about it.

Good to hear it's being sorted out - pretty sickening incident.

The Lower Mountains team that did not retaliate have been given free tickets to Fridays semi final game Eels and the Dogs.

That's a really nice gesture, top marks to whoever thought that one up.

Good job they don't have cameras at most Queens U18 games - this kind of behaviour is the norm not the exception at those games

Maybe we need to clean our own act before we proffer such sanctimonious comments

Within spitting distance of League Freak's home.

Quote: Serge A. Storms "Good job they don't have cameras at most Queens U18 games - this kind of behaviour is the norm not the exception at those games Maybe we need to clean our own act before we proffer such sanctimonious comments'" Action has been taken against Queens: news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_l ... 258924.stm But I think you're right in pointing out that a blind eye has been turned too often in many cases, and the RFL simply had to do something after the incident referred to in the link above.

Quote: Serge A. Storms "Good job they don't have cameras at most Queens U18 games - this kind of behaviour is the norm not the exception at those games Maybe we need to clean our own act before we proffer such sanctimonious comments'" Action has been taken against Queens: news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_l ... 258924.stm But I think you're right in pointing out that a blind eye has been turned too often in many cases, and the RFL simply had to do something after the incident referred to in the link above.

I thought you were refering to your blog...

I'm going to say this REALLY slowly, for all of you idiots.


I don't live in Penrith. I don't live in Blacktown. I have never lived in either of these places.

I live close to Blacktown, but I don't live in Blacktown.

Now, with that out of the way.....



Having grown up in western Sydney and spent time in the Blue Mountains I can tell you two things.

People that live in the Blue Mountains are very laid back. They are a bit weird, you kinda want to shake them awake....like a baby or a small animal.

They are nice enough people.


Then there is Blacktown. Now as I said, grew up here, played all my footy in the area, actually had a cousin that played for this club in the news.

I won't lie, you have to be a tough b*stard to play the game out in this area. Biggest junior base in the world, a mix of pretty much every culture you can think of so you get lots of Aboriginals, Samoans, Tongas, Fijians and the like in teams which I have to say was awesome!

Thing is, there footy is at such a high level and a fierce level that no prisoners are taken. If you start something, you have to be willing to finish it.


Now I have heard much worse than what was seen in that footage. The difference is, that fight was on tape.


I personally think the following years age group for those players should have been banned from playing next year. Their coach and trainers should all have copped 1 year suspensions for not going out and stopping what happened....and that is not even taking into account the players themselves.

It was a disgrace!

The poor Blue Mountains kids never stood a chance. Different culture, once that fight started it was like the Queen of England walking into a cage fight.

I'm glad the players were banned and I hope this at the very least gets the local leagues to put measures in place to stop this sort of thing happening again.

Decent insight freaky.
Sounds a top area to play your league, especially if you like it tough