Would a 3pm KO have stopped these yobs from behaving in this way? I think not and 8pm was fine for the same 4 year old 2 weeks ago when we played Saints!!!'"

Read the thread"fans abuse to players" I do not condone in any way the behaviour of the Castleford "supporters" but maybe the problem isn't isolated,if you had been with the Salford supporters while they were "chanting" at their own players,would your reaction have been the same?

WTF?

I suppose they could have just thrown flares at the Salford players like good Lancastrian folk eh?

It was a smoke bomb not a flare

Yes, but the point is this is the family stand. This person had mad a conscious choice not to view the game from the area of the ground where verbally abusive reds fans may be - indeed an area where verbally abusive fans of any club don't go, so is reasooable to expect a hassle free game. I'm someone who dislikes sitting at games and will go and stand at the back in all seater stadiums, but going into a seated area to stand up when there's standing capacity for 8,000 is pretty dumb - doing this at the front of a stand with people sitting behind is both dumb and inconsiderate.

I could see that group of Cas fans from where I was stood. Quite what they were doing in the Family Stand rather than on the terrace is beyond me. They'd have fitted in quite nicely with the group of Cas fans right at the back of the terracing, dead centre behind the sticks as well...

While I know why condone any sort of yobbish or behavoiour of that sort. Why do you have your family stand at the away end? You have got another stand along the side of the ground?

I also remeber seeing a salford women (with no kids in that stand when we looked up giving as much abuse as you say the cas fans were giving!!!!

But yet thats not mentioned on here at all.

Yes it would had they been in the family stand. I know bad language happens. I used to swear at refs as much as anyone and sometimes have to bite my lip now I have my son. I now go where this shouldn't happen.

While I agree it is poorly situated the effect is lessened and it is less intimidating for the kids when they are doing it from the terraces. I also saw no salford woman giving any abuse near me. I was at the front of the salford fans and was continually abused by a large group of cas fans. hardly surprising I didn't hear one woman if she was there.

well I can confirm she was there giving out as good as the cas fans you say were giving it out. I could see here from the terracing in front of she was sat giving the middle finger and the f word a few times.

Maybe you should takl to your club with the lack of crowd there why open that stand let all away fans go on the terracing behind goal and you can use stand along the side of ground would solve all your problems.

did you read the first post?
you prick!

If you read my post I did`nt recieve any abuse from any Cas fans, the OP was on the recieving end which incidently I did`nt witness nor the Salford supporter while were at at it.
Both bang out of order.
You mention why the family stand is situated where it is, simple it offers a great view.
You may not believe this but the vast majority of away supporters respect that stand for what it is.Myself and my son were up in the North Stand for the Wigan, Huddersfield and Saints games, not a problem at any of the games so it calls into question the behaviour of the Castleford supporters in the front seats of the North Stand on friday night,

If you read the same thread on the CAS board it would appear that this group who were in the North stand cause trouble everywhere they go. The main culprit has been ID'd by his own fans on their board and it seems that the honest decent folk of Cas are sick of him and his followers.

There are issues that our club needs to get to grips with re. stewarding but it also seems that Cas have an issue with this particular group which they need to sort, as do we with a group of idiots who let us down at times.

We don't want behaviour that used to be attributed to football creeping into our game and we as fans should not tolerate it

I dont really see how anyone can argue with the opening poster. This is a family stand for Gods sake and hence should be for people that want to take their kids to games and sit in a less intimidating part of the ground. People that want to stand and chant etc shouldnt be allowed in, its as simple as that.