Very disturbed by some of your fans behaviour. : Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:26 am  

I don't really know where to start here. I have watched warrington for a very long time and always travel to away games. Castleford has always been one of the more enjoyable away grounds. Until last night. I and my friends were stood in the corner underneath the cas scoreboard. Behind us were a group of adult cas fans...........not kids,ADULTS,or at least they were suppoosed to be. From the moment cas went 10-0 up we were abused verbally,with language I could not possibly post on here,by both men and women. If we tried to remonstrate with them we were told to "shut it" or we would be attacked,this behaviour continued throughout the first half,and we had to endure foul mouthed abuse of both ourselves and the warrington team. At half time these idiots thankfully moved to the other end of the ground,and we thought the whole disgraceful episode was over. It was,until very near the end of the game. Once Myler scored his second try and it looked certain we would win,a grey haired elderly lady(i would say in her 60's)who really should be old enough to know better started more verbal abuse,and this was endorsed by her husband,son and daughter in law,in front of two children who were with them. I hope those responsible for ruining the night for me are reading this,and are truly ashamed of themselves. I feel so strongly about this matter that i am going to contact the castleford club,and will have to think long and hard about wether I visit your ground in the future. At this moment in time it looks extremely unlikely that I will be seen inside the jungle again.

Re: Very disturbed by some of your fans behaviour. : Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:35 am  

how do you know it was their daughter in law?

Sounds like a trip to wilderspool that does.

Re: Very disturbed by some of your fans behaviour. : Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:47 am  

Typical response I suppose. someone raises concerns over crowd safety,someone else with replies with "well what about your fans" type response!

Re: Very disturbed by some of your fans behaviour. : Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:20 am  

Wilderspool memories wrote:

Typical response I suppose. someone raises concerns over crowd safety,someone else with replies with "well what about your fans" type response!

Sorry you had put up with that, the club has a small number of so called fans that need to be banned like most clubs. so give the club as much info as you can.

Re: Very disturbed by some of your fans behaviour. : Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:24 am  

Sadly those idiots are what you remember. There were about 6000 Cas fans there and 99% were great. Sorry you had to face that. All clubs have a few morons.

I had some great banter with Warrington fans, in the main a great set. But we all have ones who let us down.

Hope you do come the Jungle again though

Re: Very disturbed by some of your fans behaviour. : Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:39 am  

Wilderspool memories wrote:

Typical response I suppose. someone raises concerns over crowd safety,someone else with replies with "well what about your fans" type response!

well...what about your fans?

Re: Very disturbed by some of your fans behaviour. : Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:43 am  

99% of Cas fans are fine, it's just this 1% that lets us down. I don't see the need to come and post this though. And we know we have idiots like every club, so just contact the club and leave it off here.

Re: Very disturbed by some of your fans behaviour. : Sun Feb 14, 2010 11:13 am  

Why didnt you approach a steward and report it.
We need to weed these sort of so called fans out, and it can only be done if people like yourself point this out to security.

Re: Very disturbed by some of your fans behaviour. : Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:16 pm  

Wilderspool memories wrote:

I don't really know where to start here. I have watched warrington for a very long time and always travel to away games. Castleford has always been one of the more enjoyable away grounds. Until last night. I and my friends were stood in the corner underneath the cas scoreboard. Behind us were a group of adult cas fans...........not kids,ADULTS,or at least they were suppoosed to be. From the moment cas went 10-0 up we were abused verbally,with language I could not possibly post on here,by both men and women. If we tried to remonstrate with them we were told to "shut it" or we would be attacked,this behaviour continued throughout the first half,and we had to endure foul mouthed abuse of both ourselves and the warrington team. At half time these idiots thankfully moved to the other end of the ground,and we thought the whole disgraceful episode was over. It was,until very near the end of the game. Once Myler scored his second try and it looked certain we would win,a grey haired elderly lady(i would say in her 60's)who really should be old enough to know better started more verbal abuse,and this was endorsed by her husband,son and daughter in law,in front of two children who were with them. I hope those responsible for ruining the night for me are reading this,and are truly ashamed of themselves. I feel so strongly about this matter that i am going to contact the castleford club,and will have to think long and hard about wether I visit your ground in the future. At this moment in time it looks extremely unlikely that I will be seen inside the jungle again.

I was stood in that corner near the scoreboard and from memory it was dished out both ways and is called banter. there was just as much bad language coming from wire fans as there was from cas fans and there was no mention of you being attacked like you claim. If you dish out banter you should learn to take it. no wrong doing from any cas fans from where i was stood maybe both sides should have dialled down the verbals tho.

Re: Very disturbed by some of your fans behaviour. : Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:18 pm  

You needed to point out this behaviour to a steward. We are currently clamping down on this type of behaviour, and in fact are the first SL club to introduce a rapid response team who can be called upon at any time, see below:

"The Tigers are pleased to be able to advise fans of the introduction this season of two additional safety mechanisms which will help us to ensure that the Jungle remains an enjoyable, safe and family friendly experience on matchdays.

Following on from the introduction of the security video camera last year, at Saturday's match versus Warrington, for the first time we will have a rapid response team on duty and a new text service.

The Response team are a specially trained team who can be called upon by our regular stewards to deal with crowd misbehaviour. And furthermore, fans who witness or experience any problems with regard to safety and anti-social behaviour will now have direct access to the matchday control room via the Tigers new crowd text service. Fans can simply text 07940996983 point out where they are and someone will be dispatched to the area immediately. "