Good to see. Shame that they weren't named though. When it happened we had a couple of people on here saying there was nothing wrong with throwing flares in the ground.

Exactly just complete idiots, you can excuse the 18 year old of being a bit idiotic but not the 40 year old! TBh I would have banned the 40 year old for longer!

Reading the article it appears the teenager was banned for actually being caught setting one off, the older person was only "in possession".

Use that famous search engine and there are enough stories about people being injured and killed by flares. MAYBE the action of the Widnes few have been the cue for teams across the league to start taking action against trouble makers.

To me there's very little difference between being in possession and actually throwing the flare. If you've got one with you, there's only one thing you're going to do with it, it's not designed for anything else.

I'm no fan on flares but anyone else think banning an 18 year old kid for five years for setting off a flare is a little excessive? Give him a year stood outside the ground and he'd learn his lesson.

I personally think the 40 yr old should of got longer as he should definitely know better, I think the 18 year old was used as an example to all the younger fans to behave or you will suffer!

No. You throw a flare into a crowd of people and it's got potential to cause a serious problem.

Just went onto the said Facebook page and they are saying it is a disgrace that he got 5 years

Tell me where it says he threw it into a crowd of people and I'll agree with you.

See new picture on WG website. The smoke flare was definitely set off in amongst the fans.

I'm 18 and am fully aware of the danger and idiocy of pyros. No excuse of "being a kid" when you're 18.

Anybody there on the day could see this anyway, it wasn't exactly inconspicuous...

True...and if I remember correctly, 2 were set off. It was after the second one that stewards and then the police moved in. Some people just like to see it in "black and white"

Good to see Wire take action, the same should have happened with the idiots scrapping during the 2012 Grand Final.

As someone wrote on the VT, instead of trying to shift blame to kick off times, the RFL, 'football fans' etc etc we need to start taking responsibility for ourselves. That goes for many other things in this sport too.