I was talking to a couple after the game who said stewards had kicked out the kids with the smoke "bomb", did they not take their names? At BV I've noticed that stewards have cameras on their lapels, did Cas stewards?

Dont you get it ?

The people grabbing the headlines are the ones letting of smoke bombs ?
Our Chairman, who is battling with the tightest budget in SL, was clearly annoyed at the thought of a 10/20k fine and for me did nothing wrong whatsoever, quite the contrary.

Any upset clearly should be aimed at those people who have detracted from a magnificent on field performance by a team that was busting a gut for the club.

Bearing in mind he's invested a lot of time and money into the club only for some morons to grab the headlines for all the wrong reasons at the first game of the season. How would you have reacted if you were in his position?

Ah, deflection - the classic defence of dodgy lawyers, gutter journalists and bent politicians oh and your mate Voaksey

Ignore the original offence of which there was one and concentrate on any perceived over response by those in authority.

In this case not MC's finest moment and with hindsight he probably wishes he'd been a little more restrained as in all honesty his actions could have incited further trouble.

However this is the crux of the issue - most fair minded folk can understand MC's reaction and sympathise to a degree, spur of the moment emotional. So mild slap on the wrist. The smoke bombing on the other hand was pre conceived with IMHO the perpetrators fully aware of the consequences - a pre-meditated criminal offence.

Can you spot the difference yet?

So lets not lose track of who are the villains and who are the victims here - MC in case you can't work it out is like all decent fans a victim.

Memories of a similar campaign against Steve Ferres spring to mind.

I'm not trying to deflect. I'm saying the reaction to this has been nothing short of hugely blown out of proportion, which is a shame because we got a really good win at the weekend yet most people seem intent on castigating 2 people out of 1500 in some kind of witchhunt for something that was as daft as it was harmless. It's common sense and decency that these people must be brought to justice but going on about how they should be jailed or banned for life is a joke of a reaction, as it would be if we were fined. [which is more likely going to happen the more people that carry on making a mountain out of a molehill.]

It was Ted Kaczynski

Ok, we have another thread to discuss the issues at the Jungle.
I'll close this one.
Feel free to discuss on the other one.