but Worm your 3000 is a Guesstimate, yes a lot of people were cheering, but you cant put a figure on it for certain.

Buy the DVD from the club shop, might be easily estimated by how many fans punch the air? Like I said, I've heard louder from Pedro and his merry men. 300 is Generous.

Not a single soul to my left cheered; Not even in the south stand (All game)

Thanks.
I have never been called scum before.
Still at least you got that off your chest

It's just an observation, you can put words into my mouth (screen?) if you like. As I said, it doesn't surprise me.

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No and it didn't happen yesterday either,
As i posted on the Longy thread a lot of us applauded him off.
And to be fair IF people knew how serious the injury was(we couldn't tell when he walked off tbh) then I'm 100% sure everybody would have applauded him as the majority of fans recognise what a great servant to the British game Longy has been.

Putting on my holier than thou mode and speaking for myself T.R.,I can truthfully say no.As much as I dislike Cockayne I would not wish an injury on ANY player.

I wasn't, me and the missus stand towards the scoreboard end of the east and the response was one of disgust at the idiots cheering Longs injury. I do recall some of your morons cheering an injury to Briscoe and quite a few when Cockayne got laid out with head shot. Whoever the player is, they have the courage to take the field and play this tough sport and should be respected for that, not jeered when injured.

Here i am!!!



I'll put my hands up and all credit to the users of the 'sig fodder' i've provided.....

Credit where it's due, Green had a good game on Sunday. If I may be a little critical, I would say that neither HKR halfback really put their stamp on the game until Sean Long went off. Dobson's kicking was poor IMO and Green did kick one out on the full IIRC. I still don't rate him as a player and may well be proved wrong but when he did get into the game on Sunday he was very good. This was highlighted by his break for Briscoe's try.

As I said, credit where it's due and I hold my hands up on this occasion!!

After reading some of the post on here about Rovers fans being scum or laughing
at Longy getting injured. i do seem to remember a large number of Hull FC fans
singing "Die Die Cooke Cooke Die" is that not worse, singing that you hope a
person Dies?

Both scenarios are appalling.

But it is Paul Cooke

Though i do understand your point, i also think there is a world of difference between the two incident.

Cheering a player that gets hit and stays down momentarily is initially fun, harmless and gets the crown going. When it is clear that the player is injured and stays down is when the situation changes and, most of the time, crowds will fall silent in the hope the the said player is ok. It is then common practice to applaude the player when he leaves the pitch to show support.
I thought cheering all the way through this incident was fairly poor from a large number of Rovers supporters on Sunday and was not happy about them doing it when Longy was helped from the field.
That said, it was not clearly ALL of the Rovers fans, so to label them ALL scum or tarnish them all with the same brush is wrong IMO. Also, emotions can tend to run a little higher in the derby games and maybe those fans wouldn't have cheered a Sean Long injury if he played for Sts (doesn't make it right).

Singing a song about Cookie (or any other player) is IMO completely different. Nobody is actually going to kill Paul Cooke and I don't think anyone really wants him to die but it's just a song (tasteless maybe) which someone has thought up, that worked and some fans went with it. Kind of like singing 'Wash your mouth out, son', I don't think anyone is genuinely going to get a gun and shoot the FC/Rovers scum but it's a song that works and fans go with it.

As I said, i am not condoning either incident but cheering a serious injury, which may possibly end Longy's career, is the worst offence of the two in my book. But hey, we don't need to hold a grudge. My Rovers fan friend are now my friends again until derby day next year when we hate each other for one day. That's what makes this sport extra special and why it's NOT football!!