Re: Your Fans. : Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:29 pm  

J.T wrote:

No. It will be a very sad day if/when we have segregation at Rugby League games. I much prefer to be able to stand with opposition fans and have a laugh and joke rather than been in seperate stands making crude hand gestures at each other. The better option is to ban/remove those who cannot handle mixing with opposition fans as it is they who have the problem not the rest of us.

Indeed. As said before, segregation adds to 'us' and 'them', and it also allows for bravehearts to try to look hard in front of their boozed up mates with empty threats and hand gestures. Funny how they aren't so quick to do so when the opposition fans are stood a few yards away from them.

The only downside is that it perhaps kills a bit of the atmosphere, as so many people are spread out and migled amongst each other, it makes it hard for that vocal element of support that some supporters pride themselves upon.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:31 pm  

Forgive the intrusion but my experience of problems outside of grounds has generally been :-

1. Young people who have not been to the game and just want to cause trouble

2. Alcohol drunk outside of the ground by non supporters

3. The fact that the Police could take a leaf out of Huddersfield's book who set all the traffic lights to green to allow the away coaches to get straight through without stopping and making them a target

This is often the case where there have been problems on Preston Road at Rovers games

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:41 pm  

desmond decker wrote:

there was several young ones looked about 14 or 15 drinking lager on the upper level of the doncaster rd end they were plastic carlsberg bottles so they were obviously bought in the ground i noticed at half time as i walked round but they seem well behaved dont know if these are who people are talking about.

SORRY i dont think i made my point clear they were 14 or 15 yrs old not that many people but they were drinking alcohol