I'd just like to say that while there are some morons following Widnes, not all of their supporters are bad. I've had probably one of my best memories of opposition fans come from a Widnes Fan at the Premiership final against Bradford in 1989 I think(Hull KR were in the 2nd division final against Oldham and got beat after being 28-4 up). I was only a lad and I was queuing for a drink at half time and a Widnes fan accidentally pushed into me and knocked me over. He not only picked me up and said sorry but he also bought me my drink. That level of behaviour and friendliness is what we should all strive for in our game.

From the looks of it about 4 or 5 fella's and about 15 cheer leaders.

From an average crowd of 6k that's way below 1%.

Lets not hang the club or Widnes over a few headcases.

The club have acted in the best way possible, because whilst they may miss the income of 15 people. They would miss by far the income of sponsors, away fans and home fans.

Part of the issue is that on away fixtures it's always harder to police your own set of supporters. So away fans tend to be able to create incident after incident.

I can only think of Wigan who have managed to take fans to task, whilst at Huddersfield earlier this year.

I think some support for clubs from fans, to take strong action and ban across all clubs. The difficulty with a ban is enforcing it. If I take my £20-£25 on match day, no one has a clue who I am.

So it's only really effective on season ticket holders.

YES I agree you can not paint all fans with the same brush and the game you was on about was 29oldham 28 rovers I was their and was gutted at the time

Let's be fair, they're not fans, I doubt they're season ticket holders or care at all about Widnes. They're a bunch of pi***d up blokes looking for a bit of bother and seeing the rugby as something to latch on to. Not a Widnes shirt between em.

That's interesting because at the Wire v Trinity game last week the stewards were bag searching Wakefield fans at the turn style.

Cheer Leaders

I think he meant other idiots in the crowd egging them on, not official Cheer Leaders.

That's not exactly a measure of being a fan or being a trouble maker. I've missed about a dozen Salford games home and away in the past 20 seasons and none of the group I go to games with wear replica shirts (although that might be partly to do with Salford's abysmal merchandise). Plenty of the Widnes/Wakey fans involved in the antics at Belle Vue seemed to be in replica shirts though.

Doesn't sound good.

Also not condoning any fans causing trouble but there's a pretty bad looking video that I've just seen on twitter showing a Steward basically piling in and throwing about 10 upper cuts on someone whilst his other mate holds him.

Not good at all, And there's no excuse for what the steward did.

Just seen that. Awful stuff. Hope he's identified and action is taken against him

From previous experience I actually think a lot of the stewards that work the away end at the HJ tend to exacerbate problems once they start rather than resolve them. Although, from some of the pictures I've seen it does look for once like there was actually a proper bit of scraping going on, rather than the handbags that usually get everyone so worked up.

There was a real fight which started after a Widnes fan threw a smoke bomb that hit another Widnes fan. One Steward did go OTT, but you should all bear in mind that had the Widnes fans not kicked off then the incident with the steward would not have occurred. The person posting the video of the incident conveniently forgot to show the entire incident which was quite nasty and certainly involved more than a few fans. It's a long time since I saw Police draw batons at a game of RL.
That's 3 away games in a row that Widnes fans have caused trouble. The RFL needs to sort it out now.