Re: Thursday and Cas : Wed Aug 16, 2017 5:24 am  

I've not missed an away game at Cas, including friendlies, for many many years. Never had any real problems other than the odd bit of banter. Taking a work colleague "southern softy" with me tomorrow to sample the atmosphere. Hope we can pack out our usual end.

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Re: Thursday and Cas : Wed Aug 16, 2017 7:22 am  

I've been going to Cas away games and neutral games since probably early 80s. Never had any trouble.

Re: Thursday and Cas : Wed Aug 16, 2017 7:38 am  

Got my tickets for tomorrow looking forward to the game but I'm apprehensive about going to the Jungle, some trips it's fine no problems others haven't been so good. In the last few years I've had beer thrown at me, my friend has had urine thrown at him. It's not all Cas fans by any means but there seems to be a group that gets tanked up, takes the saying love cas toot gas to its extremes stands behind the away fans and behave like imbeciles. Get rid of that group and the atmosphere would be top notch.

Re: Thursday and Cas : Wed Aug 16, 2017 7:38 am  

Towns88 wrote:

It's a shame you've had such a bad experience that it's put you off ever returning. If you were to beat us Thursday if I were a wakey fan I would hate to miss out on such occasions. I've had bad times at Hull KR and Headingley , assaulted, but not tarnished the whole lot and just took it as isolated incidents. I wouldn't say it is the friendliest places to watch rugby but it's one of the best, especially if your team is winning, something the tv and armchair can't replicate.

There will, as always, be plenty of Trinity fans there on Thursday.
Wheldon Road has always been an intimidating ground for away fans.
The atmosphere is usually very good but, some of the stuff that goes on afterwards, usually started by drunken folk outside the boot room, in unsavory.
Things have been better recently, probably due to the Early Bath and the other pub closer to the town centre now being shut down but, let's not pretend that it's the nicest place to come.

Totally agree about the "armchair fan" comments though and it's a crying shame that our sport is so heavily influenced by the needs of Sky, with very little thought given to the actual supporters of the game.
We are now only used as "window dressing" but, in reality, it is becoming more and more difficult for fans to get to every game.

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Re: Thursday and Cas : Wed Aug 16, 2017 8:22 am  

James Child is the Ref. Have to say he was the one Ref I was most dreading.

Still, with our poor record with him in the middle we are due a win (and a win against Cas!)

Re: Thursday and Cas : Wed Aug 16, 2017 8:37 am  

4foxsake wrote:

Got my tickets for tomorrow looking forward to the game but I'm apprehensive about going to the Jungle, some trips it's fine no problems others haven't been so good. In the last few years I've had beer thrown at me, my friend has had urine thrown at him. It's not all Cas fans by any means but there seems to be a group that gets tanked up, takes the saying love cas toot gas to its extremes stands behind the away fans and behave like imbeciles. Get rid of that group and the atmosphere would be top notch.

I think this has been done. There have been a group of idiots (who claim to support Cas) deliberately standing at the front of the Railway End and goading away supporters. They would then start trouble at the end of the game, before running out of the exits at either side of the stand.
There was a deliberate tactic at the Salford game to identify these idiots and photograph them before any trouble started. A camera then recorded the end of the game and identified any of these idiots causing trouble before they ran off. As a result, twelve people were refused entry to the Saints game (and will be refused entry indefinitely). Any who did 'slip the net' didn't bother to try it again at the Saints game and this group of idiots seem to have been sorted.
Now that's not to say there won't be other idiots who fill their shoes, but I know a lot of work was put in to eliminating this group.

Re: Thursday and Cas : Wed Aug 16, 2017 8:47 am  

Never really had any bother at Cas over the years. I've been called a "Wakey b*st*rd" just as I'm sure a Cas fan has been called a "Cas b*st*rd", but as they say, sticks and stones etc.
If Wakefield don't win the LLS or Super League, I'd much rather it be Cas (or Hull) than any of the others. Super League has seen a bit of a shake up this year, with fans of the so called big clubs saying it's a poor standard this year usually because their team is not doing very well. Long may it continue.

Re: Thursday and Cas : Wed Aug 16, 2017 9:20 am  

Always intimidating at Castleford but never had coins thrown at me as at Headingley.

Re: Thursday and Cas : Wed Aug 16, 2017 10:20 am  

Remember us all walking around on the pitch after we had raised a lot of money for Skye Marie Cartwright a Castleford fan, Idiots throwing coins at us all even thou some were young Cas fans who had walked with us luckily we caught most of the coins in our giant flag of Skye marie, BUT it as never put me off from going to Cas and never will Belle vue and Cas are the only grounds left when full'ish have the best Atmosphere in rugby league, So hoping for a win on thursday to put more pressure on saints




Up The Trin

Re: Thursday and Cas : Wed Aug 16, 2017 11:01 am  

The only time I've encountered trouble from Cas fans was the MPG in 06 walking home, but understandable since they're were also some Wakey fans taking the gloating way too far.