Re: Tigers handed £40k fine : Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:17 pm  

Isn't that a bigger fine than that imposed on the European football club whose fans repeatedly/collectively made monkey noises every time a black player touched the ball. Without condoning the actions of our homophobic morons you have to wonder if this punishment is yet another indication of the RFL exploiting any opportunity to undermine our case for continued membership of SL. IIRC the fine for the disturbance at last seasons Catalans game was far higher than incurred by HKR whose fans were castigated in the national media after invading the pitch to fight with Hull FC supporters.

Re: Tigers handed £40k fine : Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:18 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

How do you know that?

By reading what fans of other clubs have put on various Crusader related threads, e/g "I heard a couple of idiots shouting stuff at him" (Bradford).

Re: Tigers handed £40k fine : Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:19 pm  

StuMain wrote:

Castleford Tigers have been fined £40,000 for unacceptable behaviour v Crusaders RL after homophobic chanting aimed at Gareth Thomas

What happens to the fine money

Re: Tigers handed £40k fine : Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:20 pm  

Can someone remind me what fine Salford incurred for letting flares, that right actual smoking fire spitting flares off in the middle of the crowd at our place last season?

[tb]

Re: Tigers handed £40k fine : Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:24 pm  

Are Salford responsible for crowd control and stewarding at Wheldon Road? If you wanted someone to be fined for that incident, it would be us.



Oh, and it's also irrelevant.

Therailwayendisuponus. wrote:

The RFL love Cas. Like Cas can control what the crowd chants.

Not only can we (we have stewards after all) we're obliged to.

Re: Tigers handed £40k fine : Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:36 pm  

It's an absolute disgrace that the club have to suffer for what a handful of mindless morons chant at a game, how on earth could they have stopped it? The club do tell supporters not to swear or abuse anyone, but unless they make supporters wear gags at every game, there's little that can be done.

I don't like to hear abusive chanting at games, but it goes on at every ground I've ever been to whether it's because a player is fat, thin, ginger, has big ears or a big nose or maybe has one eye, but why is it just because a player is gay, it's suddenly blown out of all proportion and a national media story.

I've also been told that such chants have been an issue at other grounds, but rather unsuprisingly nothing has come of them.

I hope you are happy Mr Thomas, you've certainly made a name for yourself in rugby league, but for all the wrong reasons and certainly not on the field of play, where you should have been doing your talking!!!!

[tb]

Re: Tigers handed £40k fine : Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:39 pm  

1) We have stewards and CCTV.

2) Gareth Thomas is to blame for being abused? Come on, get real. If you want to be angry at someone, be angry at the numpties who thought it would be big to homophobic and abuse a player, whose behaviour got us fined.

Re: Tigers handed £40k fine : Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:48 pm  

Is it worth adding that of the £40k fine we were given for the crowd trouble versus Catalans in 2009, half was suspended until the end of 2010. Therefore, half of this £40k fine may be the RFL "calling in" the suspended balance as a result of a repeat offence.

Re: Tigers handed £40k fine : Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:49 pm  

danny boy1 wrote:

It's an absolute disgrace that the club have to suffer for what a handful of mindless morons chant at a game, how on earth could they have stopped it? The club do tell supporters not to swear or abuse anyone, but unless they make supporters wear gags at every game, there's little that can be done.

I don't like to hear abusive chanting at games, but it goes on at every ground I've ever been to whether it's because a player is fat, thin, ginger, has big ears or a big nose or maybe has one eye, but why is it just because a player is gay, it's suddenly blown out of all proportion and a national media story.

I've also been told that such chants have been an issue at other grounds, but rather unsuprisingly nothing has come of them.

I hope you are happy Mr Thomas, you've certainly made a name for yourself in rugby league, but for all the wrong reasons and certainly not on the field of play, where you should have been doing your talking!!!!

You're a disgrace to your club.

How on earth can you possibly blame the player who was abused?!?

Re: Tigers handed £40k fine : Tue Jun 29, 2010 12:50 pm  

It annoys me this, i said when the chanting was going on that we would get hammered for this.

The RFL dont have it in for Cas, they just make examples out of us, we were the first club who there were a substantial number singing the homophobic remarks. Every club will have fans that sing the homophobic songs but it was Cas where you could hear it.

i personally belive we will lose our liscence next year and i dont think we can blame it all on the board, it is the mindless n0bs that threw the bottles on the pitch and sang at GT that will have had a big bearing on the decidsion.

These prats have cost the club £60,000 in the last 12 months, thats could of been another quality player in our squad!!!

I honestly cant believe what our fan base has become. 5 years ago we were known as one of the best, most vocal, most loyal fans.......now we are known for having possibly the worst fans in the league, im not tarnishing everybody with the same brush but it is only the bad ones you remember!!!