I can't remember anything in 04 but since 05 I've been advancing up the ticket price scales in an attempt to just get in a relatively subdued part of the Leeds half of the stadium. There are just too many heads around on both sides, regardless of who plays. That year when a Saints fan nearly ended up going over the railing from the upper tier was probably the worst.

There is also always a fair bit of excess verbal jousting around the chip shop at at the top of the road leading up to the tram station - this was particularly so when the Leeds-Saints rivalry was at its peak. That fell away in the later years and our relationship with the Wire seems relatively benign. I dread to think though what would happen if our South Stand drunken féckwits ever encountered Wigan's flag waving hooligan wannabes at a GF.

I agree that the community tickets should not be in either Kop end, those ends should be allocated to the fans of the two competing teams. Community club tickets should be down the sides, many of those attending on these tickets are juniors and placing them down the sides would keep them out of harms way while also creating a neutral zone between the fans of the clubs involved in the final.

Where we were seated there was a large amount of trouble between Leeds fans, at least 6 totaly unrelated seperate incidents. They started a good 30 minutes before kick off and periodically broke out throughout the night, it was disgraceful.

If we arrange a club trip again we'll be buying the most expensive tickets, that will definitely mean we take less people but we won't expose the young lads to such a volatile atmosphere and put them in harms way ever again.

Leeds fans are drunken yobs who should stick to watching football.they really are scum of our great game

Welcome to an adult discussion.

Clearly never seen drunken Wire "fans" carrying on or Hull ,HKR ,Pies ,St's etc etc in fact the only 3 clubs i've never seen having a drunken d!psh## element are Catalans ,London and Huddersfield.
You lad are a complete t!t!!

Banter is banter but leeds take it to the next level beer spewing thugs and thats just the girls.

Troll Fail.

i was sat in north stand upper and was surrounded by warrington, wigan and saints fans and i have to report it was brilliant. banter, a natter at half time and hand shakes at the end.
the lad in the wire away shirt took one hell of a battering though

Presumably then, as a Wire fan, your idea of "banter" is singing about terrorist attacks in London?

See what I did there? I took the actions of a very small handful of fans and turned it into a huge generalisation about all Wire fans. Clever eh?

At least Leeds fans don't attempt to set fire to their own shirts after a defeat.

Yes all Leeds football fans fight and when they turn up to the rugby league they obviously all fight...........no sweeping generalisation there at all





Sadly bell-ends turn up at all sports..........if caught name and shame them and ban them from every RL ground in the country.

No. Leeds fans just leave them behind on wembley way

Keep your challenge cup and we'll keep our championship thanks.

Either way there were idiots from within both sets of fans............as ever



At a GF youve just got to hope you don't end up stuck sat near a set of beered up knobs........more needs to be done about refusing drunken fans admission into the ground.

You're an idiot, run along and play somewhere else or start thinking of a new user name.

We had a really bad experience in the Leeds end in 2007 where someone vomited all over us and several others. We were sat in RFL seats this year. Paying more than we wanted to but was well worth it. Sat with wire Leeds, saints hull hullKr and cas shirts.
It was a brilliant atmosphere predominantly because we were all adults. Yes there was banter but people who were drinking were doing so responsibly and it was a great occasion

Like any sporting event there's a xriss section of society. If 1 person in 1000 is a bell end. Youre still going to get about 70 at old trafford on GF night.

One mans banter is another mans abuse. I personally tend to not bother getting involved with toing and froing as people as less able to take banter the more they drink. And at 6pm on a saturday, theres a lot of time to be drinking.

Depends what people go for. If they want to go for the occassion then having a few drinks is all part of the day, but if you want to really enjoy the game itself then you'll do it better if you don't bother.

What's banter for a couple of groups whove had a few beers might be quite intimidating for a family nearby.

I started drinking at 11am and finished at 12 midnight, so obviously had quite a few...HOWEVER.....I can handle it and know when enough is enough, unlike some. The RFL won't ban drinking at games because of the revenue it generates. Personally I can take it or leave it, but if it avoids trouble i'd be happy for them to ban alcohol at games and be more stringent when it comes to people who are already drunk being allowed in.

never had a drink until returning to taddy at 10pm.
never staggered home until 3 am mind

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First of all congratulations to Leeds on winning the game. I thought you deserved it on the night. Now, the thread. There are a lot of people commenting on the alcohol consumption of certain "idiots" as a person who also goes to army v navy games I think the banning of alcohol would be a bad idea. At these games most are well oiled before the game even thinks about starting. Would this ban affect us? May be, maybe not. Policing of these games is always well done with the sale of beer restricted. I think the RFL should look to this as an option and probably go to this day as well. Yes I know what most of you are thinking but I am a staunch wires fan and have held a season ticket since the dark ages. Hopefully the Army v Navy games will become a league spetical as apposed to an RFU one.

He, in the words of Alan Partridge was pure sub-human scum! Typical hard lad though as when the orange coats waded in he it and ran away. Pussy!

My dad was still talking about it today. He said he was sickened. If they were leeds fans I hope them get and STD and it hurts

It must be a yorkshire thing not being able to hold there drink. should brick up the m62 and stop them coming over.