Do you always talk garbage?

Barman in Perpignan last week told us that Warrington and Hull KR bring the most fans to France, but the Hull KR fans spend all weekend fighting. It's not just a KR thing though, because the Hull FC game used to have the biggest risk of trouble. Must be something to do with the city, because away fans seem to have problems at the FC ground too.

God don't some people spout some drivel, I have been to every away match this season, including perpignan and have seen nothing more than the odd gobe spouting off and becoming an iritant and as for constant fighting in perpignan, give it a rest.

We may have the odd fans on here who like to perpetuate the myth that we travel in bigger numbers then migrating widerbeast but that doesn't mean we should get constantly tarred with the brush that we are somehow RL's version of Millwall.

All teams have there sets of numpties (remember your televised game against catalan where the cameras showed the abuse the group of 4 catalans fans, including a woman, got at your place) but spouting this kind of thing just gives our sport a bad name.

I was a BV on Saturday and apart from our performance I enjoyed the day out, the wakey fans I met were very sociable and I'm sure if come Saturday week and IF you beat catalan you'll be met with the same cordiallity at our place.

RL is a family sport and 99.9% of the people who go treat it as such, don;t preach the minor negatives and especially on hearsay, the national press do a good enough job of putting our sport down without us helping.

Do a poll of the fans from all the clubs outside of Hull on who are the most troublesome fans, and I bet the two Hull clubs will come top.

I agree that most fans will be okay, and maybe it is a debate for a different day, but Hull seems to have its fair share of numpties, and when one or both of the clubs start to do well, they come crawling out. I accept that the KR fans who were there three years ago, back in the NL1 days, will be fine.

The problem is made worse by the fact that both clubs seem happy to make it uncomfortable for away fans. Hull KR as a club treated Wakey fans very poorly this year, and the stewards at the KC don't seem to mind the intimidation of away fans by a large section of idiots that goes way beyond banter.

If we beat catalans will hkr or leeds be on fri or sat as l need to book a holl for it.

By virtue of us being froma big city with a large population you will find we have a larger number of numpties than most. Also we do tend to travel in reasonably large numbers so therefore our number of idiots may seem more than say harlequins for instance. I agree that in our forst year in Sl we seemed to acquire a small minority who seemed to be looking for the trouble spots but since that point they seem to have dssappeared (seemingly coinsideing with City's promotion tho the PL).

I can also say that at no other ground have we heard of our supporters cars being vandalised, yet both when we have been to BV previoulsy and reportedly when FC came this year cars where vandalised. Does this mean BV is the worst place to come in SL??

What I don't like to here is rumour and hearsay being told as fact, the perpignan thing for instance made it sund like it was an England world cup group match from the mid 80's. As I was there I can catagorically say there was no evident trouble during the whole weekend, nor has there been for the 2 years previous.

I agree our away facilities are pretty substandard and are in need of a total rebuild, hopefully sooner rather than later. If our stewards were overly keen then hopefully next time you'll find it all together nicer place and the stewards will have been told.

FC & KR have always been the two games that I have been most wary of and have never taken my Wife to Hull KR.

Ever team has it's share of idiots; but some of the KR fans destroy the line between banter and deliberately looking for trouble.

The 'fans' stood behind us on Saturday were desperate to cause trouble, derisory comments regarding fans displaying 'Watene 8' on their shirts, objects thrown etc.

There is also a damn good reason why away fans were not allowed in Cats bar.......

i don't like going to hull kr, makes our place look good..i always take my son (9) and generally 1 of his mates who think that the local dick ed's shouting and carrying on are a source of amusement ! "gonna brick ya on the preston road " is 1 comment springs to mind !

How old are you man



Is it the full line up with Mr Hunter?

Great band by the way.

KR is the only away that I have been to in Rigby where a police escort is required to get the coaches out.

And Wakey are not considered big rivals that must say something.

I said evident which means I never saw any and in that respect it was catagoric.

If we beat Catalans we will definitely play on the Saturday night but as for who we play it could be Hull KR, Huddersfield or even Saints.

If Leeds win we play Hull KR
If Hull KR Win we play the loser of Saints vs Huddersfield.

Whoever it is we will play on Saturday evening (unless the RFL/Superleague/SKY change their minds

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Catalan won't roll over and their forwards will be massively up for it!

They have built their game around a dominant pack and they take pride in winning the battle up front.

As Phil Clarke said in France a couple of weeks back they hav'nt been able to get over the big pack that Trinity put out and therefore struggle to beat us.

I expect Catalan to come here with a huge point to prove in the forwards, led by one Oli Elima, and if we are'nt prepared for a battle royale to win ascendancy in the middle, we will get beat.

This won't be easy!

playing clubs that you have recently beaten is always a tough one as they always have that extra motivation and desire to reverse the result.

that's why i would have preferred Cas at home as we had some unfinished business with them from our last performance.

will be really tough and we aren't that used to being the favourites

Thats the best bit, cuts 30 mins of the journey home!

You are spot on but our forwards will meet them and win the battle.

With so many afraid to come to East Hull and some of your fans obvious distain of watching the game from inferior viewing areas an allocation of around 2000 should be more than enough.

Anyone would have thought your ground is perfect ... after how long taking the Super League Bucks?

Funny ain't it but there was some of your throng saying thank-you for many of us signing your petition and yet many others slag us off.

Look forward to being very hospitable to your lot at Craven Park - if we haven't done the Rhinos first!

Not that many TBF.

Cheers

not slagging you off, just the area and behavour! i'm sure that the vast majority are perfectly fine..just the minority but at your place there are quite a few!

Strange, around 12 of my family were there and never witnessed any trouble at all. Just a lot of singing and having a good time.

my concerns about playing HKR away are that people have bought tickets and then have not been allowed access into the area where they have bought the tickets for. I would b happy if they segregated us and just let wakey fans have the temporary stand.

there are also other issues regarding the over zealous stewarding etc, but they have been well discussed elsewhere on this forum.

That's a fair point, I'll concede that. Although Leeds is a big city, they don't travel away in the same numbers, and thinking about it, Hull is probably the biggest rugby league city in terms of numbers.



Good to hear that. And despite my views on the fine people of your city, if we don't get to Old Trafford, I hope you do, because you will fill your end at Old Trafford, it will hopefully mean that Cas or Hudds haven't got there, and it will be good to see a new name there.