You want to get out more.

Firstly, they fined Castleford because they did nothing to try and prevent or curtail the abusive chanting, not because of the abusive chanting. Second, that chanting also did contravene the laws of the land as it was discriminatory of his sexuality protected under law. Homosexuality is covered by that law, as far as I am aware, beastiality isn't!

I think clubs will indeed make sure, before the Wolves come visiting, that they do indeed do all their power to prevent abusive chants aimed at him, but I also think most fans will be at their creative best when it comes to chants and something as crass and unwelcome as the chant used by the Cas fans aimed at Gareth Thomas, will not happen.

He is numpty who was just bloody stupid and that is his problem, not the fans problem!

Although I do feel for the Wolves supporters, who I am sure will be sick of it after the first game, never mind the last game of the SL season!

Which of course CTRLFC argued they had, and had the fine reduced.

HTH

This was not an anti-Cas post and they did argue that and did get it reduced, and more importantly they now have a very robust procedure for future. I have some sympathy with the club but of course not with the small minority of supporter involved in the chant!

Strongly agreed.

Snap

Am I the only one to worry about poor woolfie?
Maybe Monaghan has a serious "problem" and fancies a bit of rough....after all Wolves are just untrained dogs. Might be "hard" for him to concentrate on the game with this fine specimen on the sidelines

Especially if he plays on the wing with Wolfie on the same side as him.

As boring as it is going to get for the Wolves fans to hear every week I don't see why people would want the RFL to get involved to stop it? If he had signed for any other club the Wolves fans would have done exactly the same.

I can see it now; Joel cutting a hole in the bottom of that bucket.

It's his own fault, every time someone does hurl abuse at him, he fetches it back.

HAHAHAHAHA..... Brilliant.... agreeing that I need to get out more....

Says you... with your average of 17 posts per day since you joined compared to my 0.9 posts per day.

Get a grip son !!!

Can't believe that my twist on a quote was ripped into above some of the pathetic 'pedigree chum' type 'jokes' that are flying around.

he will love watching the porn on bbc 2... one man and his dog

Drabble in a thong....

I hear Wolfie is to be supplied with one of these







In crimson and blue of course

Surely you mean Primrose ?

Think these are 3 fans who wont be joining in with the abuse

I believe this little smasher has bought a season ticket down at the Howliwell Jones Stadium to try to catch Joels attention.

Reel it in...

Maybe they should... perhaps they should fine all clubs who fail to curb fans who are involved in abusive chanting.



Well you are 100% ill informed. The law prohibits any form of discrimination based upon sexual orientation. This is not defined by homosexuality or any other form of sexual preference. I think you will find the act of bestiality is illegal in the UK, and the act of homosexuality is legal in consenting adults but verbal abuse of anyone of those sexual preferences is legal, just as it is with somebody who is a heterosexual. The tiny minority of Castleford fans who taunted Gareth Thomas were not doing anything illegal, just something socially unacceptable.



I'm intrigued by your knowledge of events on the day in question. What did the Cas fans chant? There are no recorded notes on what was actually chanted from either Gareth Thomas, the RFL or the match commissioner. The only thing I have heard was that the chant was 'we can see you holding hands', which doesn't seem 'crass' but instead rather tongue in cheek and perhaps indicative of the 'creative best' of the Neanderthals that made the chants. I personally have no idea what was chanted and neither it seems does anyone who was involved in the punishing of the Castleford club. Indeed, one could hypothesise that the Castleford club were made an example of in a nice publicity coup for the RFL. It is strange that the massive reduction in punishment for Castleford upon appeal seems to have flown beneath the radar and barely given a mention in the press.



I agree he is an idiot for committing an illegal act. That is not the fans' problem. It is also none of any fan's concern about any player's sexual orientation. It simply doesn't matter. But the RFL punishing Castleford in any way sends the message that any abusive chanting should result in punishments for the hosting club. Although obviously the RFL have widely ignored other incidences of abuse at RL games since the Castleford ruling, you don't go through a game on Sky without hearing 'the referee's a ' do you?

I'll make it clear that I don't condone Cas fans chanting at Gareth Thomas, I also don't condone the RFL punishing clubs for publicity reasons or them acting hypocritically. I also don't condone what Monaghan did, but frankly, it's not important. Monaghan will get stick for it just as James Graham will get stick for having ginger hair, it's all in the sledging and banter of sport, and that's one of the many reasons sport is great. I was being tongue in cheek with my original post, it's amusing to see how many people on here react to it as if the Thomas situation and the inevitable Monaghan situation are in any way different - because they're not.

Pictures to lighten the mood please.....

If you insist...

Good to see Joel will take it in good heart. Some pictures very amusing. I'm amazed you know where to look for them though. Enjoy your taking. I'd be doing the same, just as most fans when they play teams who have players that have assault, racial and PHD charges on their record.

Thread of the year.

I do agree it is worrying a fair few of you know too many sites to get these pictures from! Makes me think Joel will be in good company!!!