Has the GT chanting saga done your club any favours?
Yes, It was wrong, but the 40K fine on the Cas club has caused bad feeling in Yorkshire against yourselves.....

If the minority of Cas fans did not give the lad any abuse they would not have got the fine so why should the Crusaders get any bad feeling from Yorkshire.

I know what you're saying. I'm just saying what i've heard from Cas fans who seem to feel victimised by this. Having said that in this day and age when you can't say anything about anyone, i don't know what they expected. 40K is a hugh fine though!

Cas were fined last season for crowd trouble, so based on that 40k is reasonable enough. As for some fans blaming the club and Gareth Thomas for being abused, that's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard and shows how backwards some people are.

Saints fans have repeatedly got away with abuse of Barrie Mac with no fine though.

What sort of abuse does he get? Has anyone made any complaints?

Barry Mac is the ex Leeds forward who now commentates for Sky. He lost an eye in his early teens in an incident involving an air gun.

No it hasn't; it's caused bad feeling from a few numpties at Cas who think that homophobic sledging is part and parcel of the rough and tumble of rugby league.

Don't speak for Yorkshire - speak for yourself.

It hasn't changed my opinion of the Crusaders, a very good, talented team (of Aussies)

Its not done the crusaders (or GT) any harm, nor should it. If we worried about the reputations of players and clubs who are abused we'd still be stuck in the 70's giving black players monkey chants and throwing banana's. This has been all but eradicated in our game by taking positive action and hopefully this will go some way to getting rid of this bigotry from our sport.

i dont think any cas or yorkshire fans have a problem with the crusaders club,personally i believe gt has had some very bad advise from is agent emanuelle paladino over the whole saga and it has caused a snowball effect which has got out of hand and forced the issue with rfl fining the club for the actions of 20-30 teenagers, which imo is ridiculous and something that cant be policed and leaves sporting clubs in a very awkard position for the future has the precedent is now set.

How so?

Not from me it hasn't. I'm certainly not fond of the clever dicks who chanted it and got us this fine.

are clubs going to gag supporters on arrival of games,abuse can be given to players in all forms at any level of sport it always has done and always will,is their any difference between a ref been called a cheating barsteward or james graham a ginger t0553r or dean widders fat,this is the annoying thing has any of these people come forward and said im been abused and this needs to stop, but then again not too many of them are trying to push a career in media are they.

personal opinion is why this can never be policed and it will continue to do so the same has it always will and its nothing more than terrace banter and not abuse has is been percieved.

And the 'Hitler is a Cas fan' chants at Headingley were just terrace banter as well?
Time to leap out of the dark ages I feel! Get the perpetrators on CCTV then prosecute and ban them. It isn't difficult! One of your own supporters claims to have passed the names and a picture of the culprits to Richard Wright.