yeah widnes

No excuse. You could have bought tickets straight from Saints. A lot of Wire fans did that.

Wire behaved themselves as well.

If I were you I would change your bait, it isn't going to get any bites.

its not an excuse its fact. The wire game sold out on day of kick off. Ours sold out Monday before. not rocket science

Well, as Saints only gave us 5,000 tickets how could we sell any more. Wigan sold every ticket they were give plus a lot bought from Saints.
It would appear that more Saints fans wanted to watch Saints v Wigan than Saints v Wire
Wigan sold all their tickets by Monday before the game.
When Saints played Wire the last tickets were sold on the same day as the game

And the cry goes up "you're only here 'cause it's Wigan"

I think your crowd calculator needs new batteries.

Correct. I know loads of Wigan fans who were unable to purchase tickets due to the non availability.

Wire were given more allocation due to less Saints fans purchasing.
On Good Friday an extra 1000 casual Saints fans pre-purchased thus denying Wigan the chance to sell.

Yeah but Wire lost

It is getting very petty now, fans making out like the oppositin are violent hooligans. Now I'm not condoning violence but the smallest, most isolated incedent is brought up on rlfans and totally blown out of proportion and all the teams followers are labeled 'the scum of rugby league'.

I had a feeling that fans would be destroying bits of Knowsley Road on Friday, being the last derby, but there was less than I expected.

Whether we care to admit it or not, you must face facts -

Every team in SL/Championship etc etc will have a section of tw*ts. Who are gloryhunters and who love to cause havoc at any game ie. Knowsley Rd, Adam Watene chants (which personally I found to be sickening).

Each club has a responsibility to round them up and kick them out. Question is, are clubs doing enough?

Its a big thing watching Wigan create a piece of history, winning the last league derby at knowlsely road you know, im not surprised more saints fans wanted to watch

i agree i watch saints all season last year home and away but didnt go grand final because people want drink and then fight never mind theres a game on they dont care even if kids are there to even sometimes with them

FJ, couldn't agree more.
The 2008 GF Leeds v Saints was disgraceful.

We (as a game) need to weed out these morons from our game.

We shouldnt have this problem we visit st helens to watch a game of rugby league as we will be given a stand behind the sticks

LMAO! Are you serious?! Its corrugated iron and some nuts and bolts! Go down a scrapyard and you would find pieces of that stuff in better condition and fix it for a tenner! I think if Stains went to Wigan for compensation for that then they are daft.

I do hope, however, that the steward claims compensation against whoever hit him. But I'm not actually sure how this works coz if a fan was injured i'm sure they'd sue because "the stewards didnt police problem fans well enough" or something along those lines. I hope they find the idiot and have him banned for life and name and shame him in national papers. I wouldnt be surprised if these are all fans banned from football stadiums for Latic's hooliganism.

Does anyone know if a person who is banned from Football stadiums would also be banned from Rugby League stadiums? and whether the DW would count as a "Football" stadium when it is used for RL?