the clubs would share responsibility.

You have missed the point

Why was I specific to theose stadia ?


They are all council run and council stewarded venues

Therefore a club could be fined for the inadequate stewarding of separate business

Would that club then be have to sue it's own landlords for recompense

As I pointed out much earlier , this is another in a long line of RFL knee jerk reactions without thinking things through properly

They introduce rules and regs to the sport but dont look at all the potential loopholes or ways that problems can be caused

i didnt miss the point at all, i fully understood it, however the clubs still bare ultimate responsibility to the RFL

However the SMCs have a responsibility, in law, to make sure their facility doesnt discriminate through homosexuality and racism, so it would be in their best interests to work with the club to get rid of it.


If however they cant work the SMCs to create an atmosphere free from racist and homophobic behaviour, and they cant get rid of it themselves, then they cant use that stadium,

Perfectly correct

Not an ideal situation though , and as has been shown by the green and gold campaign at O/T , it is very difficult to control what a large crowd can do if they want to enough , and even more difficult to control a small number of people in a large crowd if they want to make a nuisance of themselves

This situation could and should have been dealt with much better for all concerned

So how would you have dealt with it then Starbug?

By the way any idea from you (or anyone else) on what the pa announcements were that drowned out two of the chants?

The RFL respect CD at a guess.

This is a post from ' Off no Seven ' on the Fax site , from a thread discussing the subject




1 st highlighted bit is basically were they went wrong

2 nd highlighted bit is probably where we are as a sport

So if Cas did play the respect CD, why no mention of any instruction given to the stewards re the chanting in their account of actions taken and what point are Cas trying to make when stating that the match commissioner heard nothing if the club did? (I can't imagine that they are trying to say that because the match commissioner didn't hear it that it didn't matter)

So you would've issued a strongly worded statement saying it's a one off and a minority of idiots etc then? In that case could Cas have saved themselves the issue if they had done similar i.e. taken action?

I doubt it, as the RFL were clearly hell-bent on making a point.

this is proof beyond doubt that the sport is bent

I've never mentioned this on these boards as it's not worth going on about but i'm gay and yes it is horrible to recieve abuse like as I have in the past and i'm glad something got done about it but i agree £40,000 is a bit to much for a small club like cas.

The RFL are no doubt making a point so that other clubs will take notice and stamp it out before they recieve a hefty fine like this which i think is unfair on castleford and this small & idiotic group of fans have tarnished their club and put the rest of the fans in a bad light as this has recieved national media attention.

The RFL obviously feel there are ground to investigateThank you for your email and apologies for the delay in responding.

I confirm that the Leeds chanting is subject to an investigation. Given an investigation is being conducted it is inappropriate for me to comment further on this case.

Thank you again for your email and if you have any queries please contact me.
Regards
Blake Solly
RFL Compliance Manager[/i"

Castleford take action www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=18358 Time to reduce the fine?

Castleford take action www.superleague.co.uk/article.php?id=18358 Time to reduce the fine?

so have these supporters been banned for homophobic chants or because cas has been fined £40thou?