Defended themselves? A Widnes fan threw the first bloody punch! And if there were 16 years old, two things:

A) why were they drinking? Cos it looked to me that they had been drinking well before the match as well?

B) where were the parents? Why were they allowing them to drink?

The stewarding was poor however, the wakey fan who retaliated should be banned and I expect the stewards to get a bollocking.

That's not crowd trouble. This is crowd trouble. www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-09/o ... ck/4809608

That's not crowd trouble. This is crowd trouble. www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-09/o ... ck/4809608

It happened right next to us and it wasn't pretty scenes. I dont know who started it but the case was there where drunken fans looking to fight on both sides. Although there was a lack of stewarding, they did well to escort two Wakey fans away in the first half or it really would have got out of hand. Never seen anything like that before at a game. It just kept expanding the fight and went on for 5/10 minutes.

Agree with most comments so far, find them and ban them

who has previous on this kind of thing only one of the clubs from last night has a fine hanging over them

Never had a problem at Wakefield to be honest and the crowd is usually pretty mixed together probably a one off

The stewarding company ought to pay any fine due to their incompetence.

The away fans should be put in the eastern terrace – then I can go back to standing where I always have for the last forty years

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He's totaly wrong about a "warzone" but then again he's wrong about most comments he makes.

One you have no mates.

Two shall we talk about the far worse violence sparked off by dirty spitting Cas fans earlier in the year at WR that required 30+ police offices to attend.

You are one pathetic troll.

And the other lying troll appears.

Perhaps if Hudds ever managed a crowd you'd be in a better position to comment. However as you weren't there your comment is typically irrelevant.

I was there, it was ugly but nothing worse than you's see any Saturday night around town where people are enjoying a beer. I realise crowds as big as ours are a mystery to you but basically you get that many people in one place some noisy oik will go to far. It was over in a minute or so and not vaguely comparable to football.

If you like we can ban away fans, we don't seem to need them these days - certainly don't need your pitiful contribution.

Finally, these RL fans who share your opinion - I'm chuffed for you I really am. However Ive spoken to a number of fans from other clubs who agree with me that Hudds fans are generally a vile bunch. So who's dad's bigger now you silly little boy.

Vastman there were running battles between wakefields own fans, the widnes fans had already fleed for their lives and at least 4 grenades were dispatched, had it not been for the riot police there would have been fatalities.

Don't know how you can you compare that to spitting.

Wow, seems some Wakey fans find It all a bit of a laugh.
Twice now,their club needs to get serious.

oh hello stranger long time no see, in fact not since i last posted about anything in general that happen to include wakey .....which obviously makes me a troll according to you, sorry, didnt realise fans are only allowed to post on things regarding their own team.

And you do realise my post wasn't written personally for you dont you, more for the general rugby league fans who happen to read this topic so get off your high (anti-anything huddersfield) horse and accept that not everyone has the same pleasureable experience at Belle Vue as you have every time. .........and silly little boy ???? you've obviously never met me

Ban the culprits from ever attending a RL game

Simples

Go on the wakey board mate, aside from one numpty all wakey fans are taking this seriously and are hoping that those involved are banned.

Wakey stewards don't help, when we went for the first game of the season me, my wife and two young grandkids were stood near some Rovers fans in fancy dress and they were loud, but funny and causing no harm at all when a gang of neanderthals in the guise of stewards came steaming over and got very aggressive with them, for no reason other than they were enjoying a laugh during the game. When one of them asked what the problem was he was ejected.

Totally uncalled for and potentially inflammatory.

Classic!

Banning them is only simple once the culprits have been identified. Then enforcing that ban is almost impossible.

Stewards are not security or police. Most of them are young kids, old men or women. We always say stewards should do something but they are Ill equipped to step in to a brawl. Clubs should have to have a hit squad of bouncers who can stand in an area where trouble may happen and keep the peace.

well they do have "security" on their jackets as they are employed by Key Security - none of them are exceptionally old or young but some are women. Although I wouldn't mess with the woman I saw.

I was stood on the West side for a change but much further down the pitch so didn't seen anything except a rush of security folk. Its a bit of a shame, I brought someone to the game for the first time so first impressions were not good (notwithstanding that the quality of the game was poor too). I guess that's part of the problem with increasing crowds and becoming more popular, you will get a fair share of numpty's that jump on the bandwagon. We tried "segregation" for bigger games, maybe we will have to do it for all games now. Real shame and those involved in the trouble really should take a look in the mirror.

You could try adding to the debate, if thats not beyond you.

One or two will be identified, no doubt about that.

But they'll probably still get in, like you say its not that easy.

I think that is exactly what they do. Despite the trolling of certain fans the incident was over in a few minutes - sadly it takes 2 seconds to punch someone in the nose and even the FBI couldn't stop that.

Sorry but "a few minutes" to a few seconds its a disgrace. They should be there to sort. Although these security firms do go for the "easy" option in who they employ

In actual fact there were four security guys stood around the small group ( guess about 100?) of widnes supporters well before any trouble started.
But if a few idiots are determined to have a go at each other it is very difficult to stop as things escalate very quickly