Re: Main Stand Banter : Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:31 pm  

Electricityscape wrote:

Leeds Utd chants don't constantly consist of "shooting the Castleford scum" though.

Probably the Fev & Wakie fans

Re: Main Stand Banter : Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:38 pm  

Trustafox wrote:

What Fev need is a football club to attract all the morons who are just there to start trouble

Reading everything in this thread, I can't believe you're of the attitude that it's a football thing & doesn't happen in rugby.

Re: Main Stand Banter : Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:53 pm  

Re: Main Stand Banter : Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:04 pm  

I understand banter and enjoy it BUT for me Fev were appalling last night. They again were goading, being intimidating and aggressive full stop. They should in my humble opinion been respectful that it was a low life representing there village that caused serious injury to an innocent fan. I've stood in many rugby grounds and been subjected to "banter" but for me constantly gesticulating with a clenched fist, 2 fingered salutes and the w@nker sign constantly together with the hilarious chant of W@nki Fax summed it up. RFF if you can condone what I heard and saw as normal I must have watched rugby for the last 30 Plus years with my blinkers on! Agreed we all have elements of idiots but it was collective last night and lacked in my opinion respect for a fan and need I say a club this event badly effected. I just think Fev fans were disgusting last night and if it was my club I would have been ashamed.

Re: Main Stand Banter : Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:15 pm  

chris_smith wrote:

I understand banter and enjoy it BUT for me Fev were appalling last night. They again were goading, being intimidating and aggressive full stop. They should in my humble opinion been respectful that it was a low life representing there village that caused serious injury to an innocent fan. I've stood in many rugby grounds and been subjected to "banter" but for me constantly gesticulating with a clenched fist, 2 fingered salutes and the w@nker sign constantly together with the hilarious chant of W@nki Fax summed it up. RFF if you can condone what I heard and saw as normal I must have watched rugby for the last 30 Plus years with my blinkers on! Agreed we all have elements of idiots but it was collective last night and lacked in my opinion respect for a fan and need I say a club this event badly effected. I just think Fev fans were disgusting last night and if it was my club I would have been ashamed.

Excellent post, someone finally gets to the main point. A lot of what went on last night may have been passed over in the past. RFF comes across as a really good guy and a top bloke. But it is the people that acted like they did that need to be addressed by the good contingent and make them realise that in the contextt of what had happened it was highly inappropriate.

Re: Main Stand Banter : Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:25 pm  

chris_smith wrote:

I understand banter and enjoy it BUT for me Fev were appalling last night. They again were goading, being intimidating and aggressive full stop. quote]
Sorry cock, if I'd have seen that I would agree, but I didn't and dont.

chris_smith wrote:

They should in my humble opinion been respectful that it was a low life representing there village that caused serious injury to an innocent fan. .

I accept nothing of the sort. the people who did that represent me in NO way whatsoever! End of!!

chris_smith wrote:

I've stood in many rugby grounds and been subjected to "banter" but for me constantly gesticulating with a clenched fist, 2 fingered salutes and the w@nker sign constantly together with the hilarious chant of W@nki Fax summed it up. RFF if you can condone what I heard and saw as normal I must have watched rugby for the last 30 Plus years with my blinkers on! Agreed we all have elements of idiots but it was collective last night and lacked in my opinion respect for a fan and need I say a club this event badly effected. I just think Fev fans were disgusting last night and if it was my club I would have been ashamed.

Like has been said on here, and the reason I have not gone down this route is that the tit-for-tat circle goes on and solves nowt - but the stick your f*__in flat caps up your @r_se wasn't out of Keats or Wordsworth was it?? On walking out of the grounds we got the preverbial kuwaiti tanker signs, the v's etc from some (younger) fax fans! I don't particularly condone it but if you believe Fax fans are not guilty of it (en masse as Nat suggested earleir) then you're blinkered or deluded! It happens, it always has done - BY ALL CLUBS!! The vitriol from some of the fax fans was equal to that you describe. Recounting it on here or debating in circles on here with me solves nowt.
As for the respect thing you attempt to heap my/our way. - I hope Dave recovers and I hope the mattered is resolved and quickly, though I doubt it will. But I have done nor said anything wrong to anybody - ever - and I refuse to be made to feel guilty about it by you or anyone else!
Your analysis of last nights crowd lacks a good deal of analysis, a considerable amount of bias and needless emotive comment.

Re: Main Stand Banter : Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:27 pm  

j a c k o wrote:

Excellent post, someone finally gets to the main point. A lot of what went on last night may have been passed over in the past. RFF comes across as a really good guy and a top bloke. But it is the people that acted like they did that need to be addressed by the good contingent and make them realise that in the contextt of what had happened it was highly inappropriate.

Cheers jacko, but in response to your comment, I believe that the issue has been addressed by the overwhelming majority. Scores of fans have helped the police with their enquiries. However, in an isolated incident, with no other witnesses, it is difficult to secure the evidence that will bring about a prosecution despite their best efforts so far.

Re: Main Stand Banter : Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:31 pm  

and on that issue of last night, and events last Autumn, I think it's time for me to bail out as I feel I've said my bit, answered the points from a fev fans perspective.

Keep smiling - this topic is done for me now!

Re: Main Stand Banter : Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:53 pm  

Trustafox wrote:

Can't understand any fan boycotting a game. Just seems completely alien to me. Firstly, why choose to miss one of your own teams games? Secondly, why add something to fuel an increasing strain in the relationship between 2 clubs? Do we really want to get to a point of Fev vs Fax needing a ridiculous amount of extra policing every season because our fans can't manage to watch a game of rugby in a civilised manner?

totally agree, its pathetic that people are going to miss the game, its not just Featherstone "fans", a lot of our "fans" we're causing trouble, some maybe more that the Fev ones, unfair to tarnish everybody with the same brush.
If people want to miss the game then its up to them but i think they are making it worse, going on about it and kicking up a fuss makes it more likely for something to happen, if we just forget about it things will probably blow over!!

We had trouble a few years back at Widnes with them bricking the supporters coach window but no one boycotted that game and there has been no major trouble since, its rugby league fgs!

Btw i use the term fan in the loosest possible way.

Re: Main Stand Banter : Fri Mar 25, 2011 6:03 pm  

Sorry RFF but I simply can't agree with everything you post in reply..... Firstly in the build up to the game all I heard Fax sing was Championies etc. Fev however come back with W@nki Fax etc. From sitting in the East Stand I found the atmosphere hostile at best intimidating in reality. Fev fans had an opportunity to show the world of RL that the incident at Wire was a one off an opportunity missed in my opinion having watched their behaviour. Fax fans are not whiter than White and we all had concerns!! I even offered the club to do a meet and greet on the way to the ground but Halifax were reluctant as they were certain that Fev would behave and relations between the 2 clubs are very good. All the aggressive chanting originated from Fev and Fax retaliated and I don't condone that either! As for the idiots not representing you well again I'm afraid media and police labelled the cowards involved as Featherstone fans and I'm afraid mud sticks. I'm certainly not saying either that you or the majority are not decent people or fans as I'm sure you are. Collectively last night as a group of fans I thought "Fev" provoked and goaded and were the instigators of an atmosphere I and many around me found both aggressive and hostile. It's human nature to retaliate and Fax were dragged into it through the Fev goading. I am only saying it as I saw it whilst trying to be subjective as a Fax fan but if the shoe was on other foot I'd be pretty upset at my own fans.