Well same again for us me thinks, 3 years 3 grand finals, i will be boycotting 2 away games next year, Sheffield and featherstone respectively. Shared gate or not, neither are getting a penny out of me, and i dont really give a hoot who cares or not.

Quote ="Les West Guitar God"Just been on the look north Iplayer page and the message has changed from "this programe will be available soon " to "this programe is not available"'" www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... (Yorkshire)_28_09_2010/ Mine says soon after, its not changed on mine yet.

Quote ="Les West Guitar God"Just been on the look north Iplayer page and the message has changed from "this programe will be available soon " to "this programe is not available"'" www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... (Yorkshire)_28_09_2010/ Mine says soon after, its not changed on mine yet.

Its available now, bout 7 mins in

Just seen it, its working now, Peter Roes comments were naive, when 1000s of people are asked to move onto a pitch theres bound to be some tension, hes focused on one incident that seems to have been managed well by the officials at the time. I don't think the BBC were right to link this incident to whats subsequently occured, whether this is intentional through Peter Roes comments being taken in a very poor context, the fact remains that the majority of Halifax fans behaved very well, and that nobody deserves to be tarred with a brush like this or be fighting for their life. Im incredibly disapointed at the reporting of this news story. More humility and respect should have been shown to the fact a Rugby fan is fighting for his life and im sure all good folk will wish him and his family every support we can.

Peter Roe will be appearing in the second series of the BBC's [iWalking with Dinosaurs[/i.

Roegobbaus.

Every time I see Peter Roe he always mentions the fact he was sacked by Fax after geting them promoted ....but that he has now forgotten about it as he has moved on.

I didn't think he was sacked. I thought he was employed on a 1 year deal and then invited to re apply for the job which he refused to do

Sorry but was I the only one who noticed 99% of the trouble before, during and after was caused by Fev fans.

Not according to him I assure you, he always says he was sacked, wether that was the true postition or not I don`t know.

well, he isn't renowned for his intelligence is he?

What a good idea, ask a guy who is bitter towards a club who sacked him and is a fan of the other club.
A very unbiased view that one - NOT.

BBC in Leeds is poor for stuff like that, why ask him, what the h*ll has it got to do with him anyway???

Just watched the link. What an absolute Roe has made of the whole day. No sympathy whatsoever towards the injured party, but he's obviously the one with the deepest wounds that haven't healed with time.
Are you Mark Aston in disguise ? JOKE, sick man more like.

We must be able to dig out an email for Roe, I'm sending an email to the link posted on here anyway. Roe has a chip on his shoulder that could feed the third world.

Just sent my email in.

I remember years back at Elland Rd when he was playing for Hunslet and he started on Mick O'Byrne and Mick leathered him, they both got sent off & while they were going down the tunnel, Roe asked our man for his teeth back that were embedded in Mick's forehead, so he gave them him back with interest. I always think of that story when I see him or hear him droning on the radio.

arnt sound bites brilliant!

"Fax fans approach a stand were fev fans were, thats when fevs fans spilled on to the pitch! and were the real trouble started, then police dogs got involved!"

WTF

how do u spill on to a pitch! To my thinking u leave ya standing poistion, run down the stand, jump on to the pitch and try and charge at the fax fans! not saying fax fans were not goading coz iam sure they were, but nothing differant to what goes on in the stands! and as for the police dogs they came on to the pitch some ten minutes later.

A very poor sound bit which was not reflective of what actually happpend!

bit of a storm in a tea cup if u ask me!





Mr roe a poor sound bite

I can only assume that in these days of cutbacks at the BBC that Roe comes cheap.

Desperate to keep himself in the limelight.

Shame the Beeb can't employ someone who knows what he's talking about though.

I was furious about the comments made by Peter Roe this coverage was on one of our 'innocent fans' fighting for his life after two operations need for his head injury. I have contacted The BBC also this morning to complain about the biased and incorrect comments made. This is totally unacceptable! The Fax fans behaved impeccably during the evacuation of the East Stand whilst coverage on TV shows the Featherstone fans trying to get on to the pitch!! A group of us were in Spoons having a drink and a laugh until it was mobbed by Featherstone fans shouting abuse and intimidating us the police were called then to control them we left the pub and was abused and intimidated in the street the last pub we called in just down from the Halliwell Jones stadium was mainly Fax fans but was once again mobbed by Fev fans out for trouble I was very upset and feared for our saftey one guy actually came over and said to me "get out now cos its gonna kick off" that was easier said than done as we were by now backed into the back of the pub. We don't want this sort of behaviour in our wonderful game and the RFL need to act on these clubs!! Maybe Featherstone should play their games behind locked gates next season!!1

I still love the fact that if you're being goaded you NEED to run on the pitch on have a fight. Like it's clearly just second nature and no one has any self control.



Last match I was at where the 'goaded' excuse was used was Away at Luton where because we goaded them from afar, 500 of them HAD to run onto the pitch and throw coins at us for 15 minutes. Peter Roe and some Fev fans must also see them in the right aswell....

I have had a response from James Deighton, which I will respond to shortly: -

"Many thanks for your message and the kind comments too.

Regarding what Peter said, which part of it do you feel was inaccurate. I too saw a MINORITY of Fax fans appearing to goad Fev fans when they came onto the pitch and several Rovers supporters trying to breach the police corden as a result. However as i'm sure you were much closer to the action i'm happy to be corrected and i can speak to Peter if needs be.

As i'm sure you're aware there's a small collection of morons following every single rugby league club and it's incredibly sad that right minded fans like yourself are tainted with that particular brush.

Our thoughts are with Mr Singer and his family and hopefully those responsible can be punished for what they have done.

It was a strange strange day for a number of reasons and to cap it all off we saw a supporter assault a woman in the car park as we were leaving which wasn't great. Thankfully the police weren't far away and intervened!

I have to say the initial shot in the Look North piece of fans on the field accompanied with the script "tensions were running high" is more than a little misleading and would lead someone to think they had come onto the field to riot rather than as part of the evacuation!

Let me know what you think
Cheers JD"

If you are going to reply, I suggest that you tell him, that when the halifax fans were evacuated onto to the pitch, the Featherstone fans sang, which can be clearly heard on the sky tv recordin, the W..nky, W..nky song to which a few Halifax fans then went over to them.

If any incitement was created it was purely down to the collection of morons (his words not mine) stood on the Featherstone terracing.

This was in no way reflected by Peter Rowe, who firmly put the blame on the Halifax fans.

Isn't JD a Bulls fan by the way?

"It was a strange strange day for a number of reasons and to cap it all off we saw a supporter assault a woman in the car park..."

Notice he doesn't say which club the assailant or victim were representing.

They were having trouble with the Fev fans well before the Fax fans were asked to go on the pitch. From practicly the start of the match stewards were trying to get them off the yellow no standing bits and there were announcements made over the tannoy telling them to get off the no standing areas . The police moved into the crowd and tried to sort them out.

Quote ="Fax Faithful"I think it's on I Player. I have already complained at www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/homepage/ The thrust of it was that Fax fans created an threatening atmosphere whilst on the pitch. My blood is boiling .... '" Only just managed to get on here today.........I can only say I feel the same.......It was all one sided,anyone who says any different is lying......still according to Leigh fans I live in the land of make belief........Still no response from LSV on that one either,not even an acknowledgement of my letter in May.......everyone likes putting the boot into Fax,and were just supposed to take it.....I would rather play against Cornwall Centurions or John O'Groats Rovers......We are all feeling like utter crap!!!!!.......Well everyone in Calderdale that I know is......We were all well and truly intimidated on Sunday.......Family fun...what a joke.......

Quote ="Fax Faithful"I think it's on I Player. I have already complained at www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/homepage/ The thrust of it was that Fax fans created an threatening atmosphere whilst on the pitch. My blood is boiling .... '" Only just managed to get on here today.........I can only say I feel the same.......It was all one sided,anyone who says any different is lying......still according to Leigh fans I live in the land of make belief........Still no response from LSV on that one either,not even an acknowledgement of my letter in May.......everyone likes putting the boot into Fax,and were just supposed to take it.....I would rather play against Cornwall Centurions or John O'Groats Rovers......We are all feeling like utter crap!!!!!.......Well everyone in Calderdale that I know is......We were all well and truly intimidated on Sunday.......Family fun...what a joke.......