I posted regarding the Wire v Fev game on another topic. Appreciate your comments but can you say for certain there was no trouble at the game?? I posted it as I spent quite a few minutes talking to a policeman on the pitch when we were evacuated from the stand (one of our group is a retired copper of 21 years and the last 10 as a dog handler) he started talking to the copper as he felt the dog handlers were getting the dogs too worked up. During this conversation the policeman clearly stated that there presence was stepped up due to trouble at the game against Wire previously and went on to say there were disturbances before and after the game.

Do we think he was lying? I'm not saying you didn't see any trouble but it's not to say there wasn't any is there? I can honestly say I haven't seen any police presence like this year in the last 5 I have attended.

mate, the warrington guardian does a report if someone so much as drops a crisp bag in the street. If there was trouble it would have been reported. I went into town after the match and there was a few fev fans knocking abiout for an hour or two. But they were definatly NOT causing bother. Like i said i was in the red lion that was heaving with both sets of fans before the game and the atmosphere was good. I wouldnt put it past a warrington copper to make up a bull excuse cause he doesnt really know or care to give you a valid reason. But i can honestly say that nothing happened in warrington that april day.

Let me just make clear also im not defending featherstone for what happened sunday as i wasnt there. Im just offering an impartial view of fev fans visiting my town in april this year.

A copper at HJ on sunday also told me that the CC trouble with the Fev fans was in the town centre prior to & after the match. Just 'cos you had half a shandy in ONE pub 100mts from the ground doesn't make you the expert lad, sorry if that sounds too critical.

Why ? It has no relevance. The game was not the issue.

That's fine. As i was in the town that day and you wasnt i know what happened. I think you are all going to believe something else some copper supposedly said anyway. If there was trouble in the town centre it will be on the warrington guardians archives. Just type "featherstone" into the search and lo and behold nothing mentioned about any trouble in warrington between featherstone and warrington fan's. Maybe cause after i had my half i shandy i went into town following the match and it never kicked off. But of course my word is nothing compared to some copper on a pitch at the HJ who is trying to do his job whilst everyone shouts about police presence at him.

Trust me if I was to say search Warrington Guardian archive and you'd be lucky to find anything on any kind of trouble. Saturday night brawls dont even get a mention. There was some "trouble" in Warrington on the day of the CC. It was a day when Fev supporters were in town. Cant say more than that as I didnt see exactly who was causing problem in the pub (could be Fev could be Warrington) BUT you can 100% guarantee it was alcohol fuelled!

Well i can say i honestly never saw it. If it was confined in one pub then maybe i missed it but im sure it wasnt the full on rioting like that guy was trying to make out.

Well as a neutral [Leyther we were stood with the Fev fans on Sunday and got on fine with them, young and old, also we went to Fev for the Sky tv game and went in the Last Orders pub across from Post Office Road and got on fine with fans in there, when we where in the Last Orders a gang of young ones were singing Fev songs and having a good time in the other room they saw us with Leigh shirts on but never gave us any abuse, just my experiences.

Hope the Fax lad makes a full recovery, it is sad to hear things like that happen.

You missed the point entirely. MA has issues of when the season had finished, thus when SB could play against the Eagles.



Now do you understand?

So you play in one season to qualify for the play-offs in another ?

Jeeez you numpty.

There's normal league calendar AND then there's the play offs

Get it now????

Some people REALLY need to read the post again

and again

and again

ad infinitum.

Or, ad nauseum.

There's one season and it ends on 30th November, when the players' contracts end.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.

You'll be telling me that the Challenge Cup rounds are all separate seasons next.

There's no getting through to some people.

I was thinking the same.

Still, I expect we'll have a definitive court ruling soon.

nor are they angels and every rl club has idiots

I might plaster your forum with constant "We're Champions" threads.

We'll sue you for harrassment.

Maybe Halifax should just hand over that 100k winners cheque and that would be an end of it all

We shall send a photocopy to Widnes so you know what one looks like

It's ok SO'C prints his own off in mass just for the RFL to view

In mass ?



Surely not.... the noise would drown out the sermon

Out of all of this, as a non-smoker, rugby league is and always will be a working man/womans game, you work hard all week you look forward to watching your team at the weekend, maybe with a pint or not, put if you smoke, you smoke, jees I have been at some games and thought I could do with a fag or a drink, STRESS!, you should not expect a person to sit through 2 hours (by the time you get in to go home) without a fag or a drink (in case it means they want a fag), it ruins their personal experinec/day out, if there was a smoking shed/area outside every stand then there would probably less likely hood of people "sneaking" a crafty fag, or the toilets stinking of fag smoke. Each to there own I say, cater for all needs.