Seems like RL clubs are going to have to change their attitudes regarding young players, you can't pay them peanuts and expect them to stay out of loyalty to the game or their home town club. We have to pay them what they are now worth. A club with 8 or 9 foreign players that can't keep hold of it's best kids has got it's priorities wrong. Players like Sam Tomkins and Ainscough are infinately more valuable to Wigan than Smith or Phelps, but do the contracts reflect that?

They werent last Sunday, I was there, And they reacted terribly to the Good Hiding they got!

Maybe it was the Leeds UTD element? Maybe it was because they didn't like getting a good hiding on a World Wide Stage but there were fights galore (I saw 4!).
My Eldest was verbally abused in the Toilets at half time (He's 10 and the bloke was mid/late 30's) by a Leeds Fan because he was wearing his Manly Shirt!
He was with his older cousin who gave this bloke some stick back though!

They are certainly Fast becoming the Paralell of the Saints fans and before anyone else says it some of the Wigan fans of the 80's & 90's!

Unfortunately, when a team 'becomes good', their crowd increases because lots of hangers-on want to bask in the spotlight. While on one hand this is a good thing because it means an attenance improvement, on the other it also means there'll be a lot more dick'eds knocking around. Wigan certainly had this problem in the 90s, Saints have had it on and off (but only in cup finals, LOL), and Leeds have it now. In fact, Leeds are the best example I've seen of it in RL. During their last two visits to the JJB, I've seen incidents of sporadic violence, which is something I never used to associate with their club, and all caused by brainless tw0ts who looked like they'd walked straight out of The Football Factory.