We are always respectful of any minutes silence, as others have said we werent aware of it for quite a while. I only heard the loudspeaker in English, once during the game and that was the lucky number draw, everything was in french and catalan.

There was also silence for the last 5 mins from the french fans as most of them had walked out !

I saw him telling the players you play in blue I'm usually shouting that at Latics games when we give the ball away.

I take it at that point you were throwing a few poor passes??

Were the players not stood in a line on halfway as well?

yes,they certainly were

The problem with the minutes silence was that the fans didn't know it was happening. In England the teams come out and line up and the silence starts with the referees whistle, so it's obvious what is going on - on Saturday that didn't happen, it was just part of the pre-match announcements. There were lots of those and it was very noisy in the 'barmy army'. In fairness to them, when people around them realised what was hapening and told them to shush then they did - by then though there were only about 10 secs left.

I was there and did not know about the minutes silence, otherwise i would of shown respect, Warrington fans simply did not know it was happening till it was to late.

But noticing that the Catalan fans had gone quiet was what made us all be quiet, problem was by then it was a bit late....

Sad for Menzies as he looked a real threat all the way through the game.

The players were on our flight(s). The flight out was amusing. Alibert and Ian Smith were also on board the same plane. As Briers approached the rear of the plane where we were sat along with the ref's, he started casually talking to a couple of fans saying we'll be alright if we keep hold of the ball vs Cats etc. He then looked up, saw Alibert and smiled before saying "It's alright, we've a decent referee this week anyway.....(pause - cue Alibert big cheesy grin)......it's Ganson isn't it?" Alibert's face was a picture.

Ian Smith also had the misfortune of sitting next to Briers on the way back in. I on the other hand had a large Kiwi called Solomona taking up 3 empty seats across the isle. Beast.

I bet you behaved yourself !

Solomona must be as big as Feka at his heaviest ? incredibly tho',when he came on he showed great agility as well as muscle and had a big influence on the game IMO.

i'm sorry but it was not at all clear, we were busy being noisy & could not hear the french not making noise (double negative, i know) but as it dawned on us we the respected the silence( even though we had no idea what it was for!)

the two teams plus officials lined across the pitch may have given a hint also.....


what was annoying though was the guy doing the match commentary for the 'local' Warrington radio station not taking any notice at all of the silence and reading out the teams to his listening public ! that really was the height of bad manners IMO,especially when all the other press people were standing to show their respects - it wasn't Mr French by the way,just one of his sidekicks... that really didn't go down well with his fellow press bods.

read between the lines! ffs, they/we were not aware why / what was going on! you continue to believe it was lack of respect when during every fixture attended by warrington including the week before the silence is observed without exception. use you noggin rather than trying to point score!

Not sure why the indefensible is being defended here.

Ok, you go to the south of France, you take your shirt off, get sunburnt and drink a load of cheap lager while singing Warry-Warry-Warrington.

But you also show some respect to the locals and stay quiet during a minute's silence.

i think your missing the point as well! no one made an announcement in english, if they did ( i for one did not hear it) it only became aparent when people realised some 20 seconds into the minute, then by a process of word of mouth the silence was observed! no disrespect was intended, i appreciate that it may have been felt by the "locals" but that was not the intent at any time!

i take it you didn't go as cheap beer was never on the agenda at 5 euros a pint!