This person started the same topic on the Wigan forum. Seems more likely that the said person his a Wigan supporter and should return to that forum rather than seeking to stir up trouble here.

The self righteous supporters from other clubs should perhaps take a little time out to think what Coley could have done to engender such antipathy. Other players such as Hodgson, Haggerty and Korkidas left the club and are not held in the same low regard as Coley.

It may well be the case that others from the squad of 2007 just played out their time until the season was over. Sadly, for Coley he made it pretty clear from his on field demeanour that that was what he was doing.

His in action was a significant contribution to the relegation of the club that year and who knows where that may have led to. Thank god we now have franchising and such selfish actions of players can't relegate a team. There were no consequences for Coley for his abject, disinterested performances but there were for the club. At least now if such a situation was ever to happen again such a player's contract could be terminated immediately. Instead of hanging on to him in the vain hope that he might have sufficient moral fibre to see out his contract in a professional manner.

Disgusting behaviour from small minded idiots.

impeccable timing as well after a family bereavement last week for the coley family....

Some people really need to get a life

. The chants may have been OTT but a LOT of Salford fans still bear a great deal of ill feeling towards Coley for his enexcusable behaviour after years of great service at our club. If he'd have left as Hodgy, Korky etc did he would have left as arguably one of our greatest players of the last 20-30 years. Instead, he very nearly ruined our club along with others (Robinson etc) therefore in my eyes he is a complete and utter . Everyone knows that the chant is not meant literally but it is merely a way of showing how strongly some fans feel. FWIW, I would have preferred those fans to save their energy to back the team but each to their own. But for people to come on here ranting as they are is quite frankly pathetic.

They are words and words only. Do these holier-than-thou fans have the same opinion about players who perform acts of thuggery on a Rugby field? No, I thought not as it's all done in the heat of the moment therfore a few punches here and there are acceptable. Surely that's setting more of a bad example to youngsters in the crowd than swearing?

[i'Great Britains waterboy'[/i is a much better chant than 'die die coley.'

coley is just a judas scum who deserves everything he gets ,i cannot beleive some people are sticking up for him ,

coley needs to show salford some respect as it was us that got him out of playing for swinton, if it wasnt for us he would never have even played super league, anyway i wonder which club he will be a next year cause i very much doubt wigan will keep him on !!

I doubt that very much. Coley undoubtedly has talent as we saw at times when he played for us - his work ethic is obviously questionable though. If we hadn't signed him from Swinton somebody else would have eventually.

The self righteous Wigan fans, people who support a Club that cheated to avoid relegation, have breeched the salary cap three times that we are aware, how many more times did that not get caught. whoes coach can tap up a player whilst on international water carrying in Australia. A club that with only one song "bang bang bang........
Coley took a wage for a year from our club and just didn't turn up for most games, he caused disruption in the camp and was a catalast in our relegation, Wigan are cheats is a fact now lets look forward to next week and hopefully a fair ref, just hope Coley breaks a leg in training

no chance his knees were both a mess we sorted his knees out trust me he wouldnt of been a super league player now !!!!

Frankly, I am tired of this self righteous cr@p bleated from Wigan. I will dislike anyone I choose to dislike, irrespective of this sanctimonious, politically correct, mumbo-jumbo they offer with their mock disgust and moral outrage.
He cheated a living out of our club when we were on the brink of possible extinction (Relegation, with the onset of the Franchise system) and he went to join a team which seems to revel in bending the rules. He did nothing for an entire season, other than play effectively against Wigan. He has no class and showed neither integrity, professionalism nor allegiance to the club paying his wages and that is an insult to each and every one of us. Korkidas, Hodgson, Haggerty, Dorn even Finnigan, at least continued to play with some measure of pride, despite impending relegation.
FWIW, I don't care for Coley or Robinson but I am not going to listen to the drivel spouted by Wigan 'supporters', of all people, about a situation they know little about other than their probable 'tapping up' of him. If they are too simple to understand how deep our feelings run against Coley; the lack of vocal passion they regularly exhibit is all the more explicable.
I didn't join in the chant but I would stand by everybody's right to. I don't like him and, as has been stated before, he could have been a legend for us if he had shown more grace in the manner of his season-long withdrawal of labour and subsequent departure.

It's not going nowhere.... I could have closed this post down and deleted it. I chose not to as I feel keeping it open and keeping the discussion ongoing would do more good. This makes people more aware and concious of it for next time.

My post was not justifying it... just explaining why the fans feel as they do.

The time for bashing Coley has been and gone. The sort of abuse he cops now [umight[/u have been more productive in 2007 (since he didn't respond to support or ignorance back then...) but a phrase about horses and stable doors come to mind now. All it does is motivate him to play better against us.



He's entitled to do what he did. If we can't accept players giving it back (within reasonable bounds) we shouldn't be dishing it out.



I particularly agree with these points.

I've hard people singing "if you all hate scousers clap your hands" with pure venom. Including Wigan fans. I've heard Wigan fans, amongst others, come to the Willows and sing about "Salford Scum", "town full of druggies", "Salford twinned with Basra" and so on. Does that mean people actually meant all of that?

What about the widely sung "there's a Tavern in the town, and we're gonna burn it down..." Is anyone actually going to burn a pub down? No, they're not. And to suggest they actually would is ludicrous.

What about shooting red robins? I bet you've sung that at some point. Would you actually shoot a red robin? Or anyone/thing connecting with Hull KR? No, you wouldn't. And neither would anyone else who's ever sung it.

The whole idea of the "die die Coley" chant is to get a reaction. To get under his skin. To put him off his game and get him to snap. Unfortunately it's not worked and he's had two blinders against us. Next week we need to ignore him and get behind the team - that'd wind him up more than giving him attention.

It's a chant sung in the heat of the moment at a sporting event. If anyone actually takes it seriously then they need their head testing. Still, it's no surprise that it's Wigan fans getting irate about it. After all, they're the greatest in RL and would never sing anything hate-filled about anyone.

Although, admittedly, there were better songs that could've been used than that. "Great Britain's Waterboy", as mentioned, was one. Would've been a lot funnier, but never mind.

just imagine if God would have put a wigan fan in the Garden of Eden, we all would have been living in paradise now.

"I want to have a baby"
"You can't have a baby, you're a man!"
"True brother, but I respect your right to have a baby."

In no way am i defending this chant, I dont' like -ve chants at rugby and only join in with the +ve ones. However i though i'd jsut point out all the RL fans in Hull that sing about training their kids tho shoot FC/KR (depending of which side you come from) every week. Are we sugesting that any chants sugesting violence to someone else should be banned? I personaly would be ok with that but i dont' think most RL fans would be and i am well aware that jsut because i don't chose to join in doesn't mean their wrong!

Cheers for the pint. Now I've found you.

Yeah but that happens in Wigan mate

well said G.T

I wish the sort of fans that make these chants spent even a portion of that energy trying to help our team.

Did the chant wind Coley up? did it impact on his game? No it probably helps him play, as I said on another post he will have about 4 good games. 2 of those against us.

He left us a season and half ago time to let it go guys.

Still waiting for the song "die die robinson die "

I had to have my dog put down yesterday and you nasty Salford fans were singing such upsetting songs.
Can we have a collection next week for the upset we caused

"won't someone please think of the children!!"





Oh, and all of what GT said.