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Widnes have just announced that they have suspended their recruitment for next season until a full investigation has taken place.
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| Quote: Gronk! "Watch this bloke go behind a steward and dig him in the ribs:
He then try's pushing the steward into all the widnes idiots at the front . They all soon shoite them selfs and do one as soon as the bobbys arrive
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM WIDNES VIKINGS
WIDNES Vikings have pledged to work with the RFL to investigate the disgraceful scenes that followed at the conclusion of the Semi-Final of the Tetley’s Challenge Cup at Leigh Sports Village.
Widnes Vikings, as a club, wishes to apologise to the sport of Rugby League, the BBC and the partners of the Challenge Cup, Tetley’s, for the disgraceful scenes perpetrated by a minority of their supporters following the end of the game.
James Rule, Vikings CEO, said: “After all the hard work that’s gone into this season, both on and off the field by various stakeholders of the Club it’s sickening to see such shameful scenes perpetrated by a minority of ‘supporters’.
“We will now work closely with RFL and police and carry out a full investigation into this afternoon's events. If any supporter is able to provide information and names that will assist our investigation then please send that in confidence to tellus@widnesvikings.co.uk.
"It's imperative that we all work together to try and salvage what is left if our reputation.
“The Club's recruitment drive for next season has been put on hold until such time that we can establish the full cost to the Club for today’s actions.
“We will work fully with the RFL and the BBC to identify each and every individual that brought shame to the good name of our Club at full-time.”
No further comment at this stage will be made to allow time to conduct a full investigation. |
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM WIDNES VIKINGS
WIDNES Vikings have pledged to work with the RFL to investigate the disgraceful scenes that followed at the conclusion of the Semi-Final of the Tetley’s Challenge Cup at Leigh Sports Village.
Widnes Vikings, as a club, wishes to apologise to the sport of Rugby League, the BBC and the partners of the Challenge Cup, Tetley’s, for the disgraceful scenes perpetrated by a minority of their supporters following the end of the game.
James Rule, Vikings CEO, said: “After all the hard work that’s gone into this season, both on and off the field by various stakeholders of the Club it’s sickening to see such shameful scenes perpetrated by a minority of ‘supporters’.
“We will now work closely with RFL and police and carry out a full investigation into this afternoon's events. If any supporter is able to provide information and names that will assist our investigation then please send that in confidence to tellus@widnesvikings.co.uk.
"It's imperative that we all work together to try and salvage what is left if our reputation.
“The Club's recruitment drive for next season has been put on hold until such time that we can establish the full cost to the Club for today’s actions.
“We will work fully with the RFL and the BBC to identify each and every individual that brought shame to the good name of our Club at full-time.”
No further comment at this stage will be made to allow time to conduct a full investigation. | |
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I always feel sorry for the majority of fans and the club in these siltation. Its a rock and a hard place. You have to punish business owners paying wages who themselves did nothing wrong and potentially deprive the real fans of their sport with debilitating fines or bans. It always feels like tarring with the same brush and I know how I felt as a Hull fan who was in no way involved with our incident and yet had to take the barrage of abuse we got afterwards, its does not feel fair, mainly because it isn't like any indiscriminate action.
Clearly there needs to be a message put out, like there was against Hull and Castleford previously that we are a family game and this is not acceptable and that will need to be brought against the Widnss club, but all the same I hope that there is sufficient evidence here via CCTV, TV, press and the mobile pics and videos to bring prosecutions against the actual culprits (morons) here.
Personally I would support a hefty fine, supported by strong commitments from the Widnes club including life time ban as the appropriate action from our sport, and appropriate police action aside. I wouldn't, for what its worth, support a ban from competition or league points being docked.
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The RFL just needs to set a precedent so that other idiots don't think supporting Widnes is an excuse to be a yob. When Castleford were under investigation for the bottle throwing, we issued out about 5 or 6 lifetime bans, took the fine on the chin, and our support has been noticeably calmer/less dickish ever since.
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| Wow there’s plenty of footage there to identify some of those numpty’s.
I think the hoarding said “It’s a criminal offence to go on the pitch” let’s hope one or two get charged.
Not a good look for our game  . |
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I was there as a neutral and must commend the Cas' fans for not responding to blatant provocation.
Leaving the ground at the 'hotel' end I saw countless drunken Widnes fans fighting amongst themselves.
It was brewing for a good 20/30 mins was all that.
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| Quote: Ganson's Optician "Widnes have just announced that they have suspended their recruitment for next season until a full investigation has taken place.'"
Well done to the club for such a quick response  , I hope they can identify a fair few of the morons, name & shame them & take them out of the equation. |
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I feel sorry for the vast majority of widnes fans who were a credit to their club. However you could have seen this coming a mile off.
The widnes thugs I won't call them fans were at it from the off outside the wren pub,pushing shoving swearing and just generally making idiots of themselves culminating in the bottling the cas team bus.
The genuine widnes fans need to name and shame has its these genuine fans that suffer for these hooligans behaviour.
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| Quote: The Avenger "[youtubeXmCw8k1E-sc[/youtube'" Guy in the blue hat threatening to punch a steward at 2:02, and then legging it as soon as he saw the cops. |
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Quote: Him "What was Hull's punishment after the 2000? incident?
Would seem a similar incident so require a similar punishment I'd have thought.'"
£50,000, £30,000 suspended according to this - www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/j ... gue.hullkr. |
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Quote: Him "What was Hull's punishment after the 2000? incident?
Would seem a similar incident so require a similar punishment I'd have thought.'"
£50,000, £30,000 suspended according to this - www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/j ... gue.hullkr. | |
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The worrying thing is this isn't just kids full of drink who caused problems at Warrington last year (apparently that was the stewards fault).., A lot of these scumbags are men in their 40's..
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| Quote: blakeysrobin "surprise surprise, not one the dicks with a team shirt on.'"
i have seen stuff that, as usual, says they weren't widnes fans causing the trouble, on most of the pictures and videos i've seen the vast majority are wearing widnes shirts. |
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Got to feel sorry for the real Widnes fans, and thank god this didnt happen at Wembley with another 10k of drunken pretend fans
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Sad day for RL. Sold out challenge cup semi final, a team making it to their first final in years, and there are photos all over the web of scenes you'd expect at a football match or an EDL march! Scum!
I genuinely feel sorry for the true Widnes supporters, i've never had any issues with them, but the scenes were sickening. Well done the club for a strong statement.
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