Its a good job that Warrington is the most friendly place in the whole of rugby to visit then isnt it

As a Rovers fan of many years I have seen the following in the last few years, scrapping in and around Craven Park (not all the time,but happens) e.g the Hull v. Rovers disgrace the other year, again poor stewarding followed by the nutters. Scrapping in the East stand amongst ourselves, e.g when some numptys become disgustingly abusive and people object, = flashpoint, followed by crap stewarding. Away at the KC (twice) been spat on , assaulted and my 2 young daughters the same, and seen some serious scrapping (actually outside in the side streets etc). Have been to the KC since and had no trouble.

All I can say is please don't tar all of us with the same brush, but yes there are definetly some complete nutters go to Rovers and Hull.

As regards the nutters at other clubs, perhaps yours included, I will not comment or get into a p!ssing contest, BUT i will not attend away games for a number of reason, time, money and not wanting to be treat like an idiot by police or stewards, or mainly because I do not need to be abused or assaulted by anyone just because of a game of rugby.

I would not blame anyone who decides to NOT travel to the City of Hull to watch rugby, until safety is guaranteed, but I can't see it happening 100% anytime soon.

I really do think it's society in general at the moment, just look at the news....eg a guy in Pudsey gets a cricket ball thrown at his car, stops to sort it out, set upon by a gang and stabbed twice....ffs, what's that all about ?

Anyways....enjoy your rugby and good luck for the season

If thats the worst you have been called in your life then you must lead a very sheltered one, fans have been singing that song for more than thirty years, its called banter for goodnes sake, get over it

no i dont mind that cos all teams sing it, i just think that parents shouldnt be letting their children hang out of a car singing that to fans. at that age its obvious that the parents are encouraging it

It could of been a 25 yr old hanging out of the window who looks really young, or did you know how old he was?
Dont forget your 12/15 yr old fan who got chucked out is actually 21.




(who i now want to meet and laugh at personally

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no they were defo tiny little kids, i actually thought that lad was about 14/15 tho!!

won't stop me coming I ain't really witnessed any crowd trouble at hull kr and just the 1 occasion at fc after the 05 game were hull decided to fight instead of watch there team parade challenge cup...

What seems odd is that after the quatre final last year I came across very nice friendly kr fans wishing us well in the semi final etc but after they have won a game there's crowd trouble

2 much alcohol and blood rushing to there heads more then likely - no excuse though.

I did beep my horn and we all waved (all in our 20s,30s) at a couple of wire fans getting in there car though

Looked like a golf ball to be honest.

Happened on the bridge after the Crown pub on the corner.

Shame really as majority of fans are nice genuine people.
I remember going to Wilderspool back in the 80's and being scared stiff of some of the idiots who went in those days--in fact Warrington fans were well known for trouble back then.

Yep Wilderspool back in those times with changing ends could be a bit daunting for away fans.

I agree totally,I saw and heard the little girl singing "w*nky w*nky warrington" and couldn't believe her Dad was just sat in the car letting her sing it.

thank god a kr fan has agreed!!!! lol

I let our kid sing Shiit Helens. As long as she knows it's only acceptable at the rugby and that she isn't to repeat those words anywhere else, I think it's fine. It's pretty hard to take a kid at an impressionable age to a sporting arena and not expect them to pick up some of the language/chants. Just need to be responsible about how you go about it.

Warrington has its idiots, same as every other club, but I have never witnessed a gang of 20somethings screaming into the face of a 7 year old that they hope he and his dad effin die on the way home as happened to us outside the KC. Nor have I witnessed teenagers surrounding a car with a family in it banging on the windows and roof whilst hurling verbal abuse as happened after the cup defeat at KR.

I'm sure there are thousands of really decent folk in Hull, I have chatted with many at cup finals and 'magic weekends', but the idiots take things to a level that I have never witnessed anywhere other than Hull.

Most deprived, high poverty and high unemployment cities have problems, Hull is no exception. Walking to my car I looked around the sink estates, dog crap festooned streets, gangs of youths, litter and boarded up shops and thought Britain really is broken.

7 years ago i used to drive a bus in London, it used to go through the West End so you can imagine it was pretty busy the capacity when full is 80 people and from the start to end of shift when logging off our ticket machines it would tell you how many people you'd picked up which was usually between 900-1200 a day.

In that whole shift you'd only remember the one person that gave you grief, that one person would ruin most drivers day, that one person would make a driver come back to the garage saying
"god, i really hate the public"
Most people would dismiss the other 1199 people who were courteous and polite.

Why do we have to dwell on the negative?

I have an idea each club on the back of their tickets should have a number or email address, let them know the nature of the problem the time it occurred and it's location.
That way we could have proactive stewarding and policing and start to cut out all this nonsense.
Why are we painting Hull fans, like Wigan fans, like Wire fans, like Salford fans etc etc ad infinitum ?

Dwell on the [umajority[/u it's their opinion and behaviour that is the most important surely ?

Do you blame Thatcher too?

I think most would if they had actually witnessed it happening.

LOL. Thatcher left office 18 years ago (sadly)

19 and a half years ago (thankfully).

I say thankfully, but if it had indeed been 18 years ago, we'd have had Neil Kinnock as PM in 1992. I wonder what would then have happened.

LOL. It sounds like you count the days!

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Kinnock - jaysus.

Wire_YED pictured after a particularly difficult day on the buses.

Would probably have lost the 1997 (96?) election to William Hague (or would it have been Ken Clarke?).

I dream of KC as PM. Really.