www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-lea ... er-7644118 This doesn't show RL in a very good light. Not sure how the governing body is going to react to this.

www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-lea ... er-7644118 This doesn't show RL in a very good light. Not sure how the governing body is going to react to this.

I'd already heard about this.

Mind you, first look at the thread title, and I thought "Do we REALLY need to be told about Yarkshire women."

I thought maybe Wigan Ladies Supporters Club had been for a day out there.

I thought that man in the video who was only asking for another two beers was harshly dealt with by the stewards.

players jumping into the crowd to protect women and children from their own fans.

is this real life?

Yeah, it's nuts. I have a feeling that bloke on the ground immediately regretted his prior actions as the hand tightened round his throat.

And naturally this is the current lead story on the Daily Mail website.

Thought this was going to be a thread about Eorl Crabtree.

Danny Brough and Earl Crabtree coming on as subs.

Typical.

Anything bad happens in our game and the hacks are all over it.

Anything good and you will struggle to find it.

To my mind there is definately an anti rugby league agenda out there.

Really agree, can't stand the mail with its anti rugby league bias.

To be fair, it's probably not RL specifically that the Mail hate, but it's no doubt a close analogy for them to what they really despise. We're a working class sport, patronised by the lower echelons of society-or spun to their agenda, Neanderthal northern dole-ites, scrapping with their own kind who made a bit better than them by virtue of being built like the proverbial out-house. It's entirely consistent with their view of the world, and this incident will be taken as confirmation of what they and their readers already know.

Next thing you know there will be an embargo on the rah rah brigade poaching our better players to turn into scapegoats for losing the next world cup.

It seems to be becoming a regular thing - fighting in the stands for all clubs not just Salford. I think the RFL need to send out a message especially now this in the media putting the sport into a bad light. Maybe it is time to start making clubs who have crowd trouble to play behind closed doors for a game to punish them. It may be only a small minority of fans but they will ruin it for the majority and a quick way to stamp this out would be to send a message to all clubs.

First thing that will happen probably a drinks ban on the terraces, thanks a lot scumbags.

Have Salford got enough fans to cause a riot ?

I don't think it's just drink, you don't know what half of these people are taking these days. Having an attitude problem seems to be the norm these days.

Perhaps RL should follow football's example and ban booze from the terraces. One of the reason's I jacked it in(though not the main one) was being continually made to stand up, sit down, stand up sit down, stand up sit down to let the ale cans feed their habit. Can't they just forgoe the ale for a couple of hours ? They often spoiled my enjoyment of my prawn sandwiches.

I would be much worse watching the match without a drink, it calms my nerves



On a serious note, it is a very valuable source of income for clubs so there is no chance alcohol would be banned. And the way the law works the Salford players could also find themselves in some trouble with the CPS as much as the 'supporters' causing the affray.

I don't have kids but one constant I've witnessed through my life is, when kids are distressed, parents are distressed, when kids are in fear, parents will act.

Can you blame guys full of testosterone, to jump in and batter guys they think are harming their kids?

Not in the slightest but unfortunately the law might not see it in the same way as we do. It isn't always the initial aggressor who gets prosecuted, especially if it isn't seen as 'reasonable force'.

The whole thing should not have been allowed to escalate, can't believe there was no Police presence.

ive only ever seen rugby fans fight among themselves TWICE... and both times it was Salford.

We are no angels, it has happened among our fans as well, once at the DW Stadium.

Have people actually seen the photos/videos of this? Mostly they consist of people standing around. Sure, something happened, but it would seem totally minor. Bar one picture of Junior Sau pinning a fella to the floor, there's nothing to suggest there was any serious agro, apart from a load of overblown headlines.

My work's network run through a foreign server, so I get the BBC's global webpage when I log on. Along with the latest on an EgyptAir hijack, the latest on the Brussels bombing, news that the FBI have broken into a terrorists iPhone, there our great sport is, with a headline that 'Children's lives [were in danger'. That's a quote from Jermaine McGillvray, who also says 'I don't think anyone was seriously hurt', and 'There were newborn kids who were being trampled on and getting thrown about'. Now I've yet to see/hear confirmation of the latter, or even that anyone was actually struck. So basically, the crowd got rowdy, there were a couple of idiots, players (totally understandably, and from what I've seen so far, proportionally) reacted by getting in there and making sure their kin were OK, a few people filmed folk standing around, and a couple of players make some very loose comments post-match. And for that the sport is global headline news??

I'm not normally one to bemoan our press coverage, as I think we should be more proactive, but from where I'm sat the biggest issue here isn't the incident, minor as it appears, but the totally dis-proportionate coverage.

Correct. McGillvray's quotes are ridiculous and don't help at all. There is a video knocking around but it doesn't show much. The players going in to the stand don't help, but the blame must go to the people that got angry to the fact that a steward grabbed a pitch invader.