www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html Hull FC could find themselves in hot water this week after Black and Whites fans entered the pitch at the end of the Hull derby on Friday night. FC defeated rivals Hull KR at the KC Lightstream Stadium to secure their top eight place in the Super League thanks to a 22-12 victory, but post-match scenes turned sour. Hull players celebrated towards the South Stand before fans of the Airlie Birds jumped over the barricades and onto the pitch, evading stewards on their way to celebrating with the FC players.

www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull-FC- ... story.html Hull FC could find themselves in hot water this week after Black and Whites fans entered the pitch at the end of the Hull derby on Friday night. FC defeated rivals Hull KR at the KC Lightstream Stadium to secure their top eight place in the Super League thanks to a 22-12 victory, but post-match scenes turned sour. Hull players celebrated towards the South Stand before fans of the Airlie Birds jumped over the barricades and onto the pitch, evading stewards on their way to celebrating with the FC players.

where was the trouble? no, the fans shouldn't have entered to playing area, but all, I saw were the fans celebrating with the players. I didn't see any fans provoke or approach any kr players or kr fans.
saw one kr fan making his way over to the fc fans and players before walking away.
not like we set off flares in the stadium or anything is it

just sour grapes because they lost.

its the [upotential[/u to encite trouble that will be causing the most concern here, especially given scenes like those which followed the cas v widnes semi final, and of course our own low point 15 years ago. good natured or not its still a problem that isn't there if the fans stay in the stands

slap on the wrist at the most,nothing will come of it

Having witnessed some serious hooliganism at football grounds over the years , believe me , I know how quickly these things can escalate. It may seem like innocent fun , but today's celebratory pitch invasion quickly becomes tomorrow's front page pitched battle

But that would only have happened if your guys had taken exception to the FC fans. Fortunately, and to their credit, they didn't and it never looked like turning nasty.

The fans should get a medal for having the stamina to reach the pitch from the South Stand before the floodlights went off.

I'm hearing you but the club surely cant get punished for something that might escalate?? It didn't escalate so there is no issue is there?

From what I remember, the stewards hardly reacted and let the situation happen, maybe Rovers need to take a hard look at the poor lazy stewarding...

Right they should have not been on the pitch ..............

But I have to question that stand and its stewarding, twice it has happened and I really do think it and they are not fit for purpose.

So.....to clarify. You are adamant that grima wasn't at the club long enough to be judged as a coach, but you 100% put down the reconnection with fans as his doing? You are not one ofva comparative handful of remaining fans but consider your opinion stronger than nine because you are there.
All I'll say is that if this reconnection is so good and you're not a clique, then how come the other 3,000 missing fans haven't flocked back? Grimas job was to coach, then select and coach a squad of professional rugby league players and in that he 100% failed.....everything else is just window dressing

I agree, Grima out!

And so say all of us!!

Its only happened once as far as I remember and all teams in the league have been to it, not been any hint of a pitch incursion from anyone else yet its the stand and stewards fault?

No one's saying the fans that entered the pitch are blameless. They shouldn't have gone on the pitch and I agree with what others have said in that it had the potential to incite trouble. Thankfully nothing happened. I think both sides will agree that we don't want to see scenes such as 2007 again.

But watch the video footage available to see what people are saying about the stewards. They don't appear to make much effort to stop the fans getting onto the pitch nor do they appear to make much effort to get them off the pitch once they are on it. Perhaps there are questions that could be raised on that side about whether they handled it correctly.

Very good.

Or should I say, verbatim.

I bet we all get two matches lolicon_wink.gif

I remember a televised cup games which rovers had at home, against Warrington I think, rovers won, and the a very high number of rovers fans invaded the pitch.

What was rover penalty for this??

To be fair they all went on to retrieve their lighters.