Union street in Plymouth is fun when it go's off between the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and the locals.

Bring back the biff

The marines usually win... But if they were 'on duty' in the south stand, they would certainly sort the problem. I would happily stand with them.

Not sure about that.

Still it would be fun to watch members of the green death dishing out a few beatings

If you are every invited to an inter battalion boxing match go!!!!... They would all beat the crap out of each other if the ring was not separating the two groups... lol. Great fun..

Showing your age fellas. Airborne forces left Aldershot for Colchester 10 years ago and Union Street isn't anything like the fun it used to be. FWIW my money would be on the Booties - I was on a course with a bunch of newly qualifieds last year and they scared the hell out of me!

Funny thing is the 'Latics' probably behave better than the bunch of muppets who wave daft flags and claim to be 'Ultras'

Agree 100%

I see the WRL_Brigantes twitter page has vanished

I noticed that this morning as well, probably realized how embarrassing they are and have become.

maybe if the 'normal' or 'lesser fans' started to point and laugh at them in public they would really start to vanish

Or give them an excuse to start scrapping

Interesting point. Although I was at the Latics Huddersfield game on Sunday and kept an eye on the Latics fans after making the comment I did about the Brigantes heading off to support them.

There was probably about 100 of them who stood as close as they could to the Huddersfield fans and spent the entire game not watching the football but making aggressive chants at the Huddersfield fans. On the other side of the coin what I presume was the Huddersfield bad lads got as close as possible from the other side of the stewards line and did exactly the same. They all just wasted their entrance money. To be fair there was no trouble but without the stewards and police in the middle there would have been.

This is exactly what we don't get in RL and don't want. It seems to be what the Brigantes are heading towards.

I note that no-one has come on to defend what happened. Is this because the Brigantes took themselves off to their own little members only forum ?

That is spot on. I have been to many Leeds hudds football games and witnessed the same childish behaviour both sets of idiot fans spending the entire game looking at each other.

People claiming rugby league has more trouble than football are deluded. The only reason there are not mass brawls constantly is the heavy policing and stewards.
That said we don't want rugby to turn into football, I enjoy going to the bulls games and standing with the bulls fans (who my best mate supports) and not having to hide my shirt. The idiot eliment needs to be stamped out.

Also I have noticed more football hooligans drifting to support league. I know that when crusaders were in South Wales some of the Leeds football hooligan eliment traveled to the game trying to organise a fight with Cardiff city fans.

It needs to be sorted out, and quickly

because of cost or that we don't have/need an army of police & stewards to keep order (except for the laughable escort for the officials into the tunnel twice a game)?

Not sure about cost I think a bit thing is more and more football banning orders preventing them going to games etc

Which one of you are my sunshine, que sera sera, vindaloo, bobby bobby give us a wave, are you watching warriors or that Monkees classic i'm a believer was it that you felt was aggressive? Maybe it was the tongue in cheek songs about crowds such as is there a fire drill or enpty seats?

If you're referring to the sheep sh@ggers or wtf are you chants then they're hardly aggressive and have been sung at rugby games since the year dot.

I think you misunderstand. I wasn't saying the Brigantes chants were aggressive. To be honest I couldn't even hear them. I was saying they were heading towards the football scenario as witnessed on the sunday.

I thought that lots of fighting was quite aggressive though. Even the football fans didn't do that .

Do you not ?

I'm sure conroy will explain

I was talking about the football

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I guess that puts an end to the "there's nothing wrong with flares" argument

Agree, though I can't imagine sponsors worry too much about what gets written here.

Poor lad. Hopefully this will see a clampdown on this, frankly, stupid pastime.

I watched the Latics game on the tele on sunday and yeah when Wigan scored the first goal, the camera went to the fans celebrating and the 100 or so you mentioned were giving it the 'big'uns' to the Huddersfield lot.

I watch football myself, as i'm from Cumbria I follow Carlisle and at every match there is the same problem which is why football is so heavily policed nowadays, it's something that has been in football since the 70's and will take a miracle for it to disappear.

The Brigantes seem to be copying behaviour like that, especially what i've seen of them, when they came to Warrington last year I was walking out of the ground after the game and about 12 of them in jackets, jeans and a scarf worn like a balaclava walked past acting all intimidating and shoulder barging every Warrington fan that walked past, including myself.

Hopefully after saturday's incident they have realized how childish and embarrassing they are and they stop what they are doing.

I saw a group of about 12 Wolfs fans wearing tracksuits and hoodies trying to act all intimidating after the game the other week. Kicking parked cars in on the industrial estate. Scumbags they were.

Lets hope the Brigantes hooligans don't "shoulder barge" anyone at the next Warrington game or they'll get banned by the RFL.