Solomona

Quote: Cruncher "The irony is that I find Saints one of the better places to go to in that regard. I've certainly had more friendly banter with Saints fans than with others.

Most clubs have their quota of idiots. Sometimes you notice an upsurge when that club are doing well, presumably because they then start attracting rag-tag and bob-tail. For example, I'd never come across as many obnoxious pillocks from Leeds until they started doing well in the late Noughties. Bradford were the same during Bullmania (after the 2003 Grand Final, I witnessed the worst behaviour by opposition fans that I've ever seen in my life). But some clubs seem to be permanently saddled with idiot camp-followers. Warrington have long been the worst for that, in my experience - the only time I've ever seen fighting outside Wembley, but Leigh ran them a close second back in the day (will be interesting to see in 2017 if the Leigh goons have grown up, but I wouldn't put money on it).

Over in Yorkshire, I think Cas have long been the worst of the the smaller Yorkshire clubs. I can never remember the sort of innate hostility at Wakey or Featherstone that seems to be the norm at Cas. Not sure why. Perhaps they've experienced more success than the others, and so get more cheesed off when they lose. Who knows?'"

This is all correct. Us and Saints have a healthy bitter rivalry (if that makes sense) i can walk into a St Helens pub on match day and don't feel like i am in fear of a glass on the back of the bonce. You will get some snide comments of course but for the most it is all in good jest. I enjoy sharing the rivalry with them. Leeds are ok for me but with a population they have you have to expect their fair share of numpties but again the majority are fine. Warrington are a total disgrace, by far and away the worst in the league and have been for some time but if it was a toss up between Cas and Wakey it's too close to call. If wakey got a few more in attendance i would say they would be worse than Cas. Both Hull clubs have their fair share too but Hull KR are a lot worse than FC. We used to have a bad record in this department too but since the fabled Briganties disbanded it is very very limited from us now. Special mention to Leigh who's anger and animosity stems from a complete jealousy of our success and knowing they will never be able to come close to it.