https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ButJsb7IIAE_RRs.jpg:large Some people are just not very bright.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ButJsb7IIAE_RRs.jpg:large Some people are just not very bright.

The 2000 semi final and the aftermath was a terrible, terrible time for genuine Hull fans but as has been said it spurred the club and the real supporters into action.

I sympathise with the majority of Widnes fans and hope they can root out the morons.

The only positive was watching a Widnes "fan" turn round to punch someone who had pulled him out of the Cas stand thinking it was a steward, only to realise it was a rather large Cas forward.

Brilliant! I remember a wire fan squaring up to Ganson in the 2011 play off game then getting absolutely floored by a Leeds player!

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=573096&tsmp=1407706001 We have a winner. Another genius.

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=573096&tsmp=1407706001 We have a winner. Another genius.

some widnes fans aren't going to win any IQ contests anytime soon are they?

Don't think there's a need to overreact against the Widnes club itself for some morons that are society's problem. Both Hull and Castleford have been involved in serious incidents since their fines many years ago, this season alone Castleford have had a supporter on the pitch confronting the ref and a couple of weeks ago A bottle was thrown at Leeds players from the Castleford fans at Headingley. Leeds didn't make a complaint and the RFL decided not to punish Castleford. Let's not get into a situation where fans from rival clubs start calling for punishments to others because they have been historically punished themselves. Let's see how Widnes react as a club before we hang draw and quarter them.

Widnes (like other clubs) have had this element of their support for over 40 years. To pretend otherwise is false.

Widnes is a small town where everyone knows of everyone else via the "grapevine". If the Widnes club and more particularly the Widnes supporters and people as a whole (including employers) are serious about rooting these people out they will EASILY be named and shamed within 48 hours. If that doesn't happen I personally will conclude the majority of Widnesians condone this despite any hot air that eminates from them. If that's the case, then the club should be sanctioned and banned from the CC for a couple of years,

Over to you Widnesians. Get them shopped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LocQ6Bex_68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LocQ6Bex_68

The article is from 2007 but it refers to the 2000 semi final and says the fine for that are as Wigg'n says.

I'd be happy with that kind of punishment but as Dally says inflated a little since it was 14 years ago.
Something along the lines of £80k fine, 40k of which suspended.

Think the other thing apart from the Widnes fans is LSV should never get another international/Cup semi due to how poor the stewards were, they totally failed in the duties they had and weren't enough of them. There's no way those "fans" should have been able to get on the pitch let alone past half way.

The Police (Greater Manchester, I assume?) were also embarrassingly bad, it took 2 minutes for them to get from the corner of the stadium they were in to the Widnes end and then they did nothing but stand around looking gormless.

Until they sort out Stewarding, they shouldn't be allowed show piece events again.