what I find worrying is fans still think spending money gives them the right to verbally abuse team / players? doesnt happen in other professions, and not talking about booing but the personal abuse, and as said before in front of some very young finds or have we no rights considering we spent our hard earned cash getting there, will even accept odd swear word will slip out with frustration, abuse doesnt

he is paid like all the team to play and entertain as is all the team the majority did neither and the fans have the right to vent their frustration king at the time was unfortunatey nearest to the fans he should rise above do you think it is acceptable that he gives "gestures" to the people whom in effect pay his wages i'm sure if you went to work monday and if your boss critised you and you called him a barclays banker you would be collecting your p45 i don't condone the verbals but in the current finacial climate you can understand

Let's deal with the facts here.

Matt King is an employee of Warrington RLFC and the supporters are paying customers.

Staff who work for me are often faced with personal abuse from disgruntled customers. However, if any of them turned around and told the customer to "!@*# off" they'd be sacked for gross misconduct - whatever the provocation. What's happened here is no different and a failure to act will only make matters worse.

FWIW I think you should get behind the team whilst they're on the pitch. After the final whistle if you want to boo or voice your displeasure at [ithe team [/ithat's your choice, personal insults are not going to improve a player's performance. It's a team game, and we ain't playing anything like a team.

whats your profession and do u agree with your staff getting personel abuse, what do you do to protect your staff from this, the old saying two wrongs dont make it right. no one in whatever profession should be subject to abuse,

get back t auz king shows how much he respects us fan we travveled all the way to London to watch that $*** i think we do have the right to boo, no part time supporter who checked the scores on telytext and didnt bother to go is going to tell me otherwise !!!

For the record Stubblesteve, I do not agree with my staff receiving personal abuse at all. I find it quite disturbing you would think anyone would agree with their staff being abused. We have full measures in place to address this issue.

The point here is that as a representative of any company you may receive abuse - it's how you deal with it is the measure of both you as an individual and your company as a responsible employer.

The ref & linesmen get verbal abuse every single week from every fan in RL you don't see them giving it back do you????




Smith needs to nip this in the bud & send him home & if his mate mona's wants to go let him go if he's not happy no point him being here is there..?


I also think morley isnt a captain maybe its time for a change

Christ, we are scraping the barrell now.

Finally, well said that man, I'm in 100% agreement

i was there yesterday and nobody deserves the abuse that was targeted at king there was 12 others on that pitch and he was nowhere near the worse in fact the majority of tries went in under the sticks was that is fault

King was nowhere near the worst Wire player yesterday, and it was a little shocking how much of scapegoat some have made him. I didn't see any hand gestures, but I did see one incident in the second half where a p1sshead ran over to the wall close to where he was standing and gave him a mouthful of abuse, to which he said something back. After there several more p1ssheads tried doing the same.

I can understand the disappointment, but I really don't think the level of abuse coming from some Wire fans is going to make it better, besides making a scapegoat out of King is misguided, at least he tried.

my point exactly he was nowhere near the worst player on the pitch, didnt deserve the attention he was getting, must admit smith has a massive job on his hands, hope he's up to it. line in the sand lets try and help mr smith by doing our bit again, lets get behind the team for the full 80 mins and save any reactions till the end. come on you w

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Agent King.

I wondered what that was all about - I missed the hand gesture but did see the moron running over to the rail to shout abuse at him.

The whole thing is totally out of order - King was still trying hard to the end more than could be said for some.Hicks in particular looked like he couldn't be bothered - bottling collecting the kick through for Quins penultimate try.
I actually felt sorry for him to be honest - he doesn't deserve that. And I don't think that just because you pay your money means that you can behave like that.

Also - I saw one bloke with a busted nose at half time. Overhearing urinal chat - it sounded like one of our own fans had smacked him. Does anyone know what that was all about?

King is uffering because when you signed him he was a current Aussie test player with a big rep. From what I've seen of Warrington he has recieved little to no service out wide so I'm not sure what you expect him to do. When I first saw Monaghan I was impressed, I thought he looked a decent signing for you lot but maybe he just cant form a partnership with briers??

Maybe it's him that is the real culprit in all of this?

We could continue to blame Briers for everyone, or we could accept that players are responsible for thir own performance.

For much of last year Briers played on the right, and Monas played on the left. Tactically there was little link between the two.

Monas was pretty poor for much of it. That's nothing to do with Briers. That is to do with Monas.

I wouldn't say it is just him, I just think he is the leader of this little pack of players who can't be bothered at all.

I thought this pack of players who weren't trying were in protest at the likes of Briers being here? How can Briers be the leader of this pack?

I'm confused. Too many rumours to keep up with.

swap king with toa . mind you chemics wuoldnt ave im hes that poo.

You have just confused me too! Oh well.

There did appear to be some heated arguments going on between some Wire fans, but I didn't see any actual violence. A few fans had to be asked to calm down by the stewards, but there didn't appear to be anything too out of hand.

Why do we insist on scrapping with each other when we lose.
I thought we'd left that behind at Wilderspool, or the JJB/McAlpine, in 2002?

i take it you never went



But us that went,
us that paid more or less £100 (travel, tickets, spending money etc)
us that watched a team that didnt look interested in playing just have to show our fustrations by shouting to the player your not fit to wear the shirt


King is a disgrace get him sacked cant play rugby
shows no respect

Who did he give the finger to? Wire fans or Harlequins?