Re: Leeds fan in peace : Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:27 am  

I've stood in the South Stand many a time at Leeds-Cas games (my best man at my wedding is a Rhinos fan, he stands in the WRE at Cas-Leeds), the vast majority of Leeds fans there have been fine, and the banter has always been good natured. It probably helps that we lose most times I'm there, but still, the fans I encounter tend to be gracious in defeat and victory, and a few keyboard warriors on these boards won't spoil my real-life experience of Leeds fans and RL fans in general.

Re: Leeds fan in peace : Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:15 am  

TBF on the way into the ground yesterday I saw and heard plenty of Cas fans that made me embarassed to be one and no doubt had we come out on the right side of the score there would have been plenty gloating and doing their best to wind up disheartened Leeds fans.

Every club has em I'm afraid and it depends whether you come across the a**eholes or the large number of decent fans from whatever opposition club you're playing that colours your perception.

Re: Leeds fan in peace : Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:20 am  

A-Fire-Inside wrote:

:CLAP: nice to hear, if your boys had won today I'd have been right behind them at Wembley.

If the group of Cas fans I encountered on the way to the car today are anything to go by, your fans will probably be mostly supporting Wigan though unfortunately. Strange really, has everyone forgotten about what happened with Cas and Wigan in the 2006 season already?

Well done on great support at the ground today, good luck for the rest of the year, just not on Friday or in any potential play-off game!

I think what you experienced was emotions running high. I was certainly in the Wigan camp after the game after losing to a penalty that was soft. We don't have the best of relationships with Bentham (still can't get over Watkins kneeing Chase in the back of the head and that being fine).

But having time to and look back then it was a good game and unfortunately one team had to lose. Cas should have closed out in the 80 minutes. But the younger players will learn from this experience. I won't lie to you, 2 of the 3 teams I don't really like will be playing at Wembley so not really one I'm going to bend over backwards to watch. However, Leeds will be the underdogs and I always back the underdog.

One thing though, I hope the support is more vocal at Wembley than yesterday. A bit of singing wouldn't have gone a miss from the Leeds section.

Re: Leeds fan in peace : Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:42 am  

I applaude the lack of moaning about the penalty decision from Cas fans. I expected alot of complaining this morning but the decision has actually been accepted by and large, for what its worth I think the decision was correct it happened right infront of me and was clearly high and if not for a swinging arm Maguire would have scored.

Cas played very well and Leeds just scraped through, well done cas fans.

Re: Leeds fan in peace : Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:50 am  

As I've said on a nother thread, I really felt for some of the Cas players, particularly in the pack, who ran themselves to water and defended brilliantly. There were plenty of efforts in that pack that deserved a cup final at the end.