Cannot believe people condoning this.

How much damage does it do our sport in the public eye and to commercial partners? It looked appalling on the BBC.

Absolute morons. Makes our game look a joke.
Its a good job Widnes rarely play in big games.
Seen people blaming alcohol but im sure Leeds
and Cas fans plus ourselves, would have drank
plenty yet enjoyed the game rather than causing trouble.

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It's inevitable that the powers that be will have to take action against these moronic bottom feeders. If they don't these idiots will believe they can behave like this after every game.

The idea of fining Widnes is absolutely abhorrent. This has nothing to do with the Rugby Club.

This is all down to personal responsibility. I hope the Police can actually charge these "people" with the offences they've committed

trespass
vandalism
assault
(I'm assuming) drunk and disorderly

but then again, I wont be holding my breath.

Before we get on our high horses, we've attracted the same kind of low-lives when we've reached semi finals, since I've started watching the game. Our tosspot element should have received appropriate judgement.

Got to say fair play to the Cas fans for not reacting. What an absolute shower of pr*cks. Can't say I'm surprised, time and time again there's a group of Widnes fans who think they're big men doing things like this. This time it's not even that group of young lads that are usually the ones causing bother, most of them look easily in their 40's and should know a lot better. The most small time club in rugby league by far, it's just as well they aren't going to Wembley.

I'd also say that the police reaction was very slow.

I fear Widnes will get a big fine as the RFL can not fine supporters individually, somebody has to pay for damage done to the ground and to the coaches attacked before the game and this will undoubtedly be the club which is wrong as these were idiots who idea of being a fan is getting drunk and taking your top of (dont get this and never will just makes them look like the fat d******** they are) and standing with arms outstretched goading the winning teams supporters!!!

Shame they didn't try and pick a fight with a Cas player, would have been funny seeing those little scrotes get smashed by proper men.

A number of the stewards at Langtree were actually from Warrington.

Not sure about the ones on the pitch, but definitely recognised a few that stood toward the back of West stand.

Spot on lefty

If it's a crime, its for the police to sort out. Widnes RLFC aren't a law enforcement body.

Looking at those videos the perpetrators seem to be nearly all males, late teens or 20s. And I expect close to 100% of them were tanked up with alcohol.

I bet you could take a selection of this 'demographic' from every rugby league playing city/town in the UK and if they didn't have club shirts on you would not be able to tell who supported who.

Its the same demographic that was out in those August 2011 riots nicking trainers and smashing up shops. The problem is they think strength in numbers protects them and they aren't afraid of the police so they do what they like.

The solution is to amp up the security significantly: if you have a tough and vicious enough presence then yes you might get moaning about 'heavy handed stewarding' but you won't get this.

People say there aren't jobs for ex-squaddies when they leave the army, well I would love to hire a load of unemployed ex-squaddies as private security for sporting events, they would soon deal with these kind of fools.

Agree with both you and Lefty. The only problem we would have then is that some of the idiots would do exactly what they did last year at the HJ when we played Widnes, video the incident and then play half the video. We had a steward absolutely vilified on social media for his actions, when all he actually did was whack someone's hand/arm several times to stop that person hanging on to a crash barrier when they'd been arrested. It looked a lot worse than it was and was used as a smokescreen to mask over some appalling behaviour by the same group of fans.