You wouldn't last a round with me, mate. *ding ding*

Tell you what Blakey,it would be great if trouble makers from all clubs were given the bums rush,and left the rest of us in peace.

Just cross this line......

It's alright to type about your hatred of these fans, up to now, nobody has done a thing. Moaning on here doesn't fix it.

If you see something you don't like, home or away, report it to stewards at the time, There's plenty about. Ask the stewards if they'll record names/images and pass onto the club, follow this up with your own correspondence with the club.

Looking at the bigger picture, though. It takes an honest person to be banned and not turn up anyway, how do you enforce it?

folks i think Sandra has just admitted to being Jesus.... ban him!!!!!

It was so obvious...

Walks on water!

Another thing I would like to see is the stewards being hired from outside of the community. Too many of them have 'mates' in the ground. Let those who patrol have no alligence to the team and are only there to police the crowd. May seem draconian but there is a group I see every week at rovers who rule the roost and get away with everything and stewards do nothing.

Warrington employ safety stewards from around the local area but the "security staff" are an outside firm from outside of the Warrington area. I think most of their staff actually work on the doors in Wigan

Are they the same as the ones at Widnes? They're outrageously aggressive for a group employed to keep the peace.

They're only aggressive when they need to be, apparently.

my mate got stabbed at featherstone in 1989 the match was on scrumdown the trouble back then was 10 times worse than it is now i think this has been blown out of all propotion and when we played in the NL there werent any away fans really apart from widnes or leigh and a few fev fans

It was as recently as 2005 that there was a kick off in the East Stand with Haven fans, so lets not pretend this is a problem that has only come about in SL. I suppose all the "celery throwers" at Leigh in 2003 were sober and "proper" fans?

Some of the worst trouble at the HJ was when Woves paid featherstone in the cup, and then the fire when Featherstone played Halifax in the championship finals and the serious attack after that game, and I believe there was some trouble at the 2011 finals when, OH FEATHERSTONE, played in the championship. Definately not just a SL issue, but definately something we dont wont to see.

There has been trouble before at the HJ with Salford fans fighting amomgst themselves (why? whats the point?) which was dealt with in a similiar fashion to this one (but didnt make the headlines) and in the past with Hull FC but I heard that was more to do with football hangers on. We dont want to see a mass police presence at rugby matches but I think there will be for the Salford & Hull visits this year and almost certainly for the next Hull KR visit.

years ago at rovers old ground i saw a nut er starting trouble and then sneaking away, from were i stood i saw it all this person was well dressed wore a tie and looked smart when i told a policeman and pointed him out the copper said i must be wrong he doesn't look the type so nowt was done what i am trying to say is we have always had nuters

Didn't it kick off @ home to Leigh (play offs) in 03 as well?
I remember one Leigh fan goading home fans down @ the front and it just deteriorated from there.

I think sports which attract large numbers of fans are just a microcosm of society in that there will always be an element who don't want to conform. It needs the real fans to have the balls to name these louts to the authorities but it seems that people would rather just tut tut and walk away from the problem. Despite what all fans of other clubs say neither Rovers nor Hull are the only clubs suffering from this problem.

Look, I think it's a shame that you don't feel you can take your son to the rugby any more but your making some massive assumptions and sweeping statements about me, someone you've never met!

I made a light hearted comment.

In the past I have emailed the club informing them of trouble I have personally witnessed and demanding action of them.

What have you done to try and eradicate this problem other than whining on here like an old tart?

As someone has already stated, it was much worse in years gone by.
Anyone on these board old enought to remember, will have memories of the brawls that often happened at certain Rugby league grounds, both inside and out during the seventies and eighties, mind you, i cannot remember fans of the same club ever fighting among themselves, that realy is ridicolous.




Some of the worst clubs for trouble as i recall during those periods, were Warrington where some of their fans would wait for you just inside the ground as you walked in and then attack you, there was also quite often trouble at Salford, Widness, Featherstone and at Leigh with brawling on the terraces during the game when we won the championship and took the trophy in 83/84 i believe.
Even Rochdale got in on the act on one occasion in the early eighties, when several windows of the coach we were travelling on were smashed and two of our fans had to be taken to the local Hospital after been knocked unconscious with bricks thrown by local youths, so all in all, although you do get a few nuggets who unfortunately cant hold their ale and cause trouble at games, they are in a very small minority these days imo.

The fact that the vast majority of fans these days are well behaved and have a good time, should not be overlooked, these few trouble makers do need weeding out and banning if necessary but lets not start to blow everything out of proportion.

Had the misfortune to get caught in some of that in the ground at Catalans last year, so you're not alone on that score.

Not too sure on that, we have never played Leigh at home in a play off game. Apart from Haven, the only other trouble at home I can recall was Siddal in the CC (and of course the derby in 2007). I've had bother at Hilton Park a few times, including an ugly confrontation over on the Asda carpark last time we visited in 2006.

Most clubs have nutters, I think Rovers have more than their fair share unfortunately and their psychotic tendancies come out when beer is involved.

Just found this, thought you'd want it back.

I remember an afternoon at Hilton park in 1997. Plate semi final. After the
match was beyond them alot of the Leigh fans kicked off. They ripped apart a metal fence concreted into the floor and got showered with bottles of urine. And then started scrapping with Rovers fans outside and inside the ground. Scary day was that.

For the record, I'm not Frank Gallagher.

Aye, i remember that, the Leigh fans were trying to pull down a metal fence that seperated them from a section of Rovers fans by pulling it backwards and forwards, the stewards were at a loss to do much about it, i remember walking out the ground and seeing a brick hurtling towards me but hitting a young coloured police officer who was walking just in front of me, in the chest.
I think that was the same day when i witnessed police, charging into some leigh fans and giving them what for with those long battons they used to carry.