Disgusted : Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:27 pm  

I feel I have to come on here and complain about a section of your fans at tonights game. I do not tar you all with the same brush. I was actually sat with a friend who is a cas fan and he looked embarrassed by the fans behaviour. I sat in our family stand this evening partly for cover but mainly to ensure my 4 year old son could a) see and b) nit be subjected to bad language. Instead a group of your fans decided they would come up and proceed to stand for much of the game. When asked politely if they would mind sitting so that my son could see all I got was abuse. They continued this throughout the game and in fact got worse. They seemed to delight in the fact that this not only annoyed me but frightened my son. They ignored and taunted stewards knowing full well that they outnumbered them and there was little they could do. We told one of them they were out of order as this was the family stand and his answer was "we don't give a f***". I feel very sorry for the good people of castleford that you have a section of such dispicable supporters that would make a 4 year old firghtened in the family stand at his own ground.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:34 pm  

While i sympathise with you, posting on here will not do anything about it unfortunatly. The problem imo, (from your description alone) is that of the Salford club. If you can't sit in your own family stand because your stewards are outnumbered by idiots then the club needs to get their act together. You should have been able to speak to a steward and have the matter sorted and not have to put up with idiots. I'll not apologise for the actions of the idiots because they don't deserve it. I hope you and your little un never have to put up with that again. Clubs need to get on top of these problems before they get worse or drive families away from the game.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:35 pm  

Sorry you had to be subjected to this. Every team has a group of them. I don't see what posting this on here will do though. You should report this incident to your club and see what they can do to resolve problems like this and if they ever happen again.

Re: Disgusted : Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:39 pm  

chrismum wrote:

I feel I have to come on here and complain about a section of your fans at tonights game. I do not tar you all with the same brush. I was actually sat with a friend who is a cas fan and he looked embarrassed by the fans behaviour. I sat in our family stand this evening partly for cover but mainly to ensure my 4 year old son could a) see and b) nit be subjected to bad language. Instead a group of your fans decided they would come up and proceed to stand for much of the game. When asked politely if they would mind sitting so that my son could see all I got was abuse. They continued this throughout the game and in fact got worse. They seemed to delight in the fact that this not only annoyed me but frightened my son. They ignored and taunted stewards knowing full well that they outnumbered them and there was little they could do. We told one of them they were out of order as this was the family stand and his answer was "we don't give a f***". I feel very sorry for the good people of castleford that you have a section of such dispicable supporters that would make a 4 year old firghtened in the family stand at his own ground.

Maybe you'd be better served directing your complaint to somebody who's duty it is to deal with these issues.

Greater Manchester dibble, Salford RLFC, stewards ect.

Sorry for you and your lads trouble, but I don't understand the reason for complaining to a group of fans on an internet forum.

Every club has dickheads, that'll never change.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:45 pm  

I agree and I did complain to the individual steward and will be directing a complaint to Salford first thing in the morning. As you can imagine I am extremely angry and I needed to get it off my chest. I know all clubs have them and I won't deny we have our fair share, the difference being that ours don't stand in a family stand and intimidate a four year old. I have pointed out on our own forum that the stewarding is ineffective but like I say I just needed to vent.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:53 pm  

No need to call them all Yorkshire muppets, and saying "that's yorkshire for you" on your board. Every club has them.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:53 pm  

Well if it makes you feel better.

But you seriously need to contact your club about this and prevent this type of thing happening again to you or any other fan that comes to your ground. As long as there are lone stewards then the idiots will always win and people like you, me and our kids will have to put up with them. So we need to let our clubs know that this isn't acceptable and if it continues (and they do naff all about it) then we'll be on our bike and they'll be left with the few idiots.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:59 pm  

Le Tigres wrote:

No need to call them all Yorkshire muppets, and saying "that's yorkshire for you" on your board. Every club has them.

Thats very mild compared to what I got tonight so I'm sure you can excuse my rant.

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:06 pm  

marshman wrote:

Well if it makes you feel better.

But you seriously need to contact your club about this and prevent this type of thing happening again to you or any other fan that comes to your ground. As long as there are lone stewards then the idiots will always win and people like you, me and our kids will have to put up with them. So we need to let our clubs know that this isn't acceptable and if it continues (and they do naff all about it) then we'll be on our bike and they'll be left with the few idiots.

Couldn't agree more with this. when I was a kid if fans misbehaved the true rugby league supporters would throw them out themselves (whichever team they were from) without need for stewards. Maybe we all need to take some resposibility and eliminate these muppets from our clubs before they give us all a bad name. I've spent my life feeling superior to football because our game is so friendly. I want my son to grow up with the same. Those who have replied appear to fall into the same group as the friend I was sat with. Good honest fans who go to watch the games and not to cause trouble so I apologise for the Yorkshire muppets comment on out forum to you. Although the group who were in front of me were from yorkshire and were muppets so I stand by it with regard to them

: Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:45 pm  

You need to get a grip Christines mum,i thought the Cas fans made a great atmosphere considering the expense and time it probably took them to get here from W.Yorks. The family stand was probably 35% at capacity tonight if that.

You dont get a desegnated seat number when you enter the stand,if a few vibrant. passionate, diehard fans (sounds like something we need) ruffle your feathers,then move....

It's so easy....

Better still.just go the 3pm k.o's when it's better suited for 4 year olds.

No wonder 'rugby fans' get peeved off with 'tyrant typers'.

Well Done Cas,good luck in the play offs...