...and take shin pads, footrests on wheelchairs hurt when driven into you

I can just see the judge trying to keep his face straight.

"What is the charge?"
" Assault with a deadly wheelchair ,M'lud"

Your right Demon the guy in the wheelchair wasn't half ramming into people with it, it was an electric one as well.

some of the older haven women where slapping him and telling him to behave, he didn't though.

So counter act Havens report to the RFL with a fans one too the club, Haven council and the Police. As a Steward in a Supervisory position I find this utterly disturbing, and thankful that I am a Proffesionally trained steward, and that our Skeleton crew we had for Genesis games could do a better job than these thugs.

I'd be very interested to see if these stewards are:

A- Certificated too level 2 standards.

B- CRB checked.

C- Have enough stewards to cover the crowds each match.

I wouldn't be surprised if the answer was no to all 3 Dave

And her exact words were " it was all handbags at 3 paces" and the haven fans were upset over leigh fans chanting, going down,storm in a teacup

So it was ok for them to chant the same thing to us last season?
Smacks of double standards, Rule no 1 for Haven fans, don't dish out what you can't eat yourselves!!!

One thing is for sure, I can guarantee to the Haven fans is that on their next visit to the LSV, I can guarantee they will be treated with utter respect and will not feel threatened or intimidated by any of our Stewards, and furthermore will be welcomed.

well said dave i wonder if any of the stewards at haven are trained at all if not then they should not be doin the job and you know as well as i do that without stewards the game can only be played behind closed doors no stewards means no spectators see how that hurts when they get no money through the turnstiles theese thugs i will not call them stewards cause thats a insult to the rest of us who try and do the job to the best of our ability need to be fired off by the club NOW

The guy in the wheel chair is called Andy, he knocks about with a bloke called Lou. People think hes not really a cripple but Lou cannot see it.

...not bad

bless, all this, in a HUGE crowd of 900 speccys.
that's not much more than Workington get - HA HA HA

well how very disapointing this all is, i do beleive we are meant to be the family game, well anybody reading this thread would think differently, me and my dad stood behind the goal in both halfs, and had a real good chat with this one particular haven fan. At the end of the game we shook hands and went on our way home, its a shame that everybody can not behave insuch a way. Did not see the incident after game as i was in the toilet, but what is wrong with a bit of friendly rival banter and having a laugh, yes we are all passionate but lets keep it sensible and good spirited, seems like there was contreversy both on and off the field.

Yes james i can back your story up i still cannot belive the stewards were encouraging the haven fans to go for it.

I for one will never give whitehaven the time of day if they are allowing thugs (sorry stewards) to control there stadium.The big tall bald guy was the worst of the two,he's the one that had a few words for you james when you asked him why he was wearing a hi viz vest.

As for the big guy in the wheelchair after the game we were making our way to the toilets when he drove his way into the queue shouting you bunch of (cheating barstewards) and other words i dont wish to repeat.i was glad to get back on the coach.

Email the RFL and copy in Whitehaven RL. PM me for the email address of ThugHaven if you would like it

I seem to remember when I was a lad of twelve going to Whitehaven on Monks's coach there were 17 of us there that day, and we made it big in the Journal the following week because of the abuse we suffered from their fans I remember one middle aged woman referring to me and my two mates as scabby eyed fish. how strange is that well not very strange at all I suppose when you look around at some of the specimens they have for fans, it appears then that not much has changed in the last 55 years in that neck of the woods.

I think the writers of Life an Mars and Ashes to Ashes were inspired by the time warp that is Whitehaven

cause leigh is such a lovley, place suggest you do abit of reading www.whitehaven.org.uk/

cause leigh is such a lovley, place suggest you do abit of reading www.whitehaven.org.uk/

Ok I'll reword it. The Recreation Ground - the land that time forgot

Do they still throw stones at the moon in Whitehaven?

No, just at away fans and their transport! apparently

As usual the Leigh 'Cyber Mafia' are out in force.

You all seem to have fairly short memories. Im not saying our fans are angels but Leigh as a group of supporters have their fair share of idiots.

The Leigh fans who decided to sing going down, going down decided to stop and do so right at the exit to the ground - they weren't 'leaving the terraces' as one Leigh fan stated. The group concerened were looking for confrontation from the moment they arrived.


The saying those who live in glass houses comes to mind.

Oh do be quiet you big girls blouse.

Your fans were singing exactly the same last season, one of which was dressed in nothing more than an adult sized nappy. Under normal circumstances I would assume it was end of season fancy dress, but I'm not too sure now.

It happens, get over it.

Even without Stewards Training Dave it's basic people skills and basic respect which sadly seem to be lacking in this case .............very poor !

and yet you still seem to ignore it



you lost the match, get over it
you didnt see all this bitching going on when fev beat us last week

Like the one who watched me set up my camera and equipment in the stand and when I asked him if I was allright 'here' he said 'NO SOMEONE SITS NEXT TO IT YOU WILL HAVE TO MOVE ALONG A BIT' when I asked why he watched and let me set up there he just shrugged his shoulders and smiled then quoted health and safety at me, so I reached behind me and showed him the stand power cable that had been cut and just left there (no I didnt stick my finger on the end to see if it was live

)and re quoted Health and safety back at him he wasn't impressed the pratt. Get your stewards and facilities sorted Whitehaven they are amongst the worst in the league, good job I had a good supply of batteries, this sort of thing shouldnt happen in this division its pathetic.