Well here is what I’m going to put across at the meeting on Monday. If anyone can proof read it for spelling mistakes / grammar mistakes then I’ll be most grateful. Hopefully in time I’ll get into the RLF and my dream of bring the play offs to midseason can become a reality! 
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Introduction
First of all I would just like to show my appreciation what you have set up here to make the match day experience at Headingley Carnegie a pleasant one. You are the unsung heroes whose presence is great to be in. It is a privilege to be invited here today to express both my concerns on a match day and my ideas.
Thank you for this opportunity
My Concerns
My first concern is when both teams come on the pitch its like a pantomime. No players deserve to be booed onto the pitch at any level. I want respect for all teams involved including the referees (more of that further down).
Another concern is some of the vile chants that go on in our ground. Chants like “watch your mouth my son” and “We all hate ***** scum” along with many others. This stuff doesn’t belong in a place that promotes itself as a family stadium. The “this a family game” voiceover clearly isn’t working for some reason or other.
The other concern is some of the unnecessary extra pressure both set of fans put on the referee. The ref isn’t a robotic mediator that we put in the middle of the field. He is like most of us who have a job to do and the last thing he needs to have is people getting on his back. Everyone makes mistakes and the same rules apply to referees.
My Suggestions To Prevent Such Happenings In The Future
Match day crew (right influence whilst their young)
The match day crew is basically a kids club on Headingley Carnegie Match days I thought up. Parents drop off kids from both teams say at like 6:30 to a kids crew rep.
Once all the kids have been collected the rep then takes the children to a room that’s spare within the grounds. Once in the room the rep puts up a session of fun, games and a sing along with the kids as well as with a meet up with Ronny and the other teams mascot. But also in the session the rep can also drill in respect for all teams that take the field.
Hopefully if this crew was to come to light long lasting friendships will be built up between these kids who in like ten/fifteen years time will hopefully be standing together in the stadiums singing much friendlier songs than the ones that we put up with today. This will be all thanks to the Match day Crew!
Leeds Met Music Department & Southstander Get Together Day
What we want is a day or night session every other month where rhino fans and songwriters within the Leeds Met Music department get together and come up with some new songs for match days with a friendly agenda. Throw a few Leeds Rhinos players into the night and it’ll be a right one.
A Media Push By Players, Journalist And Editors Of The Match Day Programme!
We need a massive push that will get to the conscious of every fan that attends match days at Headingley. Ask the Boots n All team to do a feature on one of their shows, get Peter Smith to do a column on it in the YEP, have a reminder of it in the match day programme, get players to have their say on calendar/Youtube along with encouraging organisations like RLFANS/Southander.com to join in with this campaign.
Thank you for reading and accepting me at this meeting today.
Damo-Leeds
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Introduction
First of all I would just like to show my appreciation what you have set up here to make the match day experience at Headingley Carnegie a pleasant one. You are the unsung heroes whose presence is great to be in. It is a privilege to be invited here today to express both my concerns on a match day and my ideas.
Thank you for this opportunity
My Concerns
My first concern is when both teams come on the pitch its like a pantomime. No players deserve to be booed onto the pitch at any level. I want respect for all teams involved including the referees (more of that further down).
Another concern is some of the vile chants that go on in our ground. Chants like “watch your mouth my son” and “We all hate ***** scum” along with many others. This stuff doesn’t belong in a place that promotes itself as a family stadium. The “this a family game” voiceover clearly isn’t working for some reason or other.
The other concern is some of the unnecessary extra pressure both set of fans put on the referee. The ref isn’t a robotic mediator that we put in the middle of the field. He is like most of us who have a job to do and the last thing he needs to have is people getting on his back. Everyone makes mistakes and the same rules apply to referees.
My Suggestions To Prevent Such Happenings In The Future
Match day crew (right influence whilst their young)
The match day crew is basically a kids club on Headingley Carnegie Match days I thought up. Parents drop off kids from both teams say at like 6:30 to a kids crew rep.
Once all the kids have been collected the rep then takes the children to a room that’s spare within the grounds. Once in the room the rep puts up a session of fun, games and a sing along with the kids as well as with a meet up with Ronny and the other teams mascot. But also in the session the rep can also drill in respect for all teams that take the field.
Hopefully if this crew was to come to light long lasting friendships will be built up between these kids who in like ten/fifteen years time will hopefully be standing together in the stadiums singing much friendlier songs than the ones that we put up with today. This will be all thanks to the Match day Crew!
Leeds Met Music Department & Southstander Get Together Day
What we want is a day or night session every other month where rhino fans and songwriters within the Leeds Met Music department get together and come up with some new songs for match days with a friendly agenda. Throw a few Leeds Rhinos players into the night and it’ll be a right one.
A Media Push By Players, Journalist And Editors Of The Match Day Programme!
We need a massive push that will get to the conscious of every fan that attends match days at Headingley. Ask the Boots n All team to do a feature on one of their shows, get Peter Smith to do a column on it in the YEP, have a reminder of it in the match day programme, get players to have their say on calendar/Youtube along with encouraging organisations like RLFANS/Southander.com to join in with this campaign.
Thank you for reading and accepting me at this meeting today.
Damo-Leeds
