I can only assume that in these days of cutbacks at the BBC that Roe comes cheap.

Desperate to keep himself in the limelight.

Shame the Beeb can't employ someone who knows what he's talking about though.

I was furious about the comments made by Peter Roe this coverage was on one of our 'innocent fans' fighting for his life after two operations need for his head injury. I have contacted The BBC also this morning to complain about the biased and incorrect comments made. This is totally unacceptable! The Fax fans behaved impeccably during the evacuation of the East Stand whilst coverage on TV shows the Featherstone fans trying to get on to the pitch!! A group of us were in Spoons having a drink and a laugh until it was mobbed by Featherstone fans shouting abuse and intimidating us the police were called then to control them we left the pub and was abused and intimidated in the street the last pub we called in just down from the Halliwell Jones stadium was mainly Fax fans but was once again mobbed by Fev fans out for trouble I was very upset and feared for our saftey one guy actually came over and said to me "get out now cos its gonna kick off" that was easier said than done as we were by now backed into the back of the pub. We don't want this sort of behaviour in our wonderful game and the RFL need to act on these clubs!! Maybe Featherstone should play their games behind locked gates next season!!1

I still love the fact that if you're being goaded you NEED to run on the pitch on have a fight. Like it's clearly just second nature and no one has any self control.



Last match I was at where the 'goaded' excuse was used was Away at Luton where because we goaded them from afar, 500 of them HAD to run onto the pitch and throw coins at us for 15 minutes. Peter Roe and some Fev fans must also see them in the right aswell....

I have had a response from James Deighton, which I will respond to shortly: -

"Many thanks for your message and the kind comments too.

Regarding what Peter said, which part of it do you feel was inaccurate. I too saw a MINORITY of Fax fans appearing to goad Fev fans when they came onto the pitch and several Rovers supporters trying to breach the police corden as a result. However as i'm sure you were much closer to the action i'm happy to be corrected and i can speak to Peter if needs be.

As i'm sure you're aware there's a small collection of morons following every single rugby league club and it's incredibly sad that right minded fans like yourself are tainted with that particular brush.

Our thoughts are with Mr Singer and his family and hopefully those responsible can be punished for what they have done.

It was a strange strange day for a number of reasons and to cap it all off we saw a supporter assault a woman in the car park as we were leaving which wasn't great. Thankfully the police weren't far away and intervened!

I have to say the initial shot in the Look North piece of fans on the field accompanied with the script "tensions were running high" is more than a little misleading and would lead someone to think they had come onto the field to riot rather than as part of the evacuation!

Let me know what you think
Cheers JD"

If you are going to reply, I suggest that you tell him, that when the halifax fans were evacuated onto to the pitch, the Featherstone fans sang, which can be clearly heard on the sky tv recordin, the W..nky, W..nky song to which a few Halifax fans then went over to them.

If any incitement was created it was purely down to the collection of morons (his words not mine) stood on the Featherstone terracing.

This was in no way reflected by Peter Rowe, who firmly put the blame on the Halifax fans.

Isn't JD a Bulls fan by the way?

"It was a strange strange day for a number of reasons and to cap it all off we saw a supporter assault a woman in the car park..."

Notice he doesn't say which club the assailant or victim were representing.

They were having trouble with the Fev fans well before the Fax fans were asked to go on the pitch. From practicly the start of the match stewards were trying to get them off the yellow no standing bits and there were announcements made over the tannoy telling them to get off the no standing areas . The police moved into the crowd and tried to sort them out.

Quote ="Fax Faithful"I think it's on I Player. I have already complained at www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/homepage/ The thrust of it was that Fax fans created an threatening atmosphere whilst on the pitch. My blood is boiling .... '" Only just managed to get on here today.........I can only say I feel the same.......It was all one sided,anyone who says any different is lying......still according to Leigh fans I live in the land of make belief........Still no response from LSV on that one either,not even an acknowledgement of my letter in May.......everyone likes putting the boot into Fax,and were just supposed to take it.....I would rather play against Cornwall Centurions or John O'Groats Rovers......We are all feeling like utter crap!!!!!.......Well everyone in Calderdale that I know is......We were all well and truly intimidated on Sunday.......Family fun...what a joke.......

Quote ="Fax Faithful"I think it's on I Player. I have already complained at www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/homepage/ The thrust of it was that Fax fans created an threatening atmosphere whilst on the pitch. My blood is boiling .... '" Only just managed to get on here today.........I can only say I feel the same.......It was all one sided,anyone who says any different is lying......still according to Leigh fans I live in the land of make belief........Still no response from LSV on that one either,not even an acknowledgement of my letter in May.......everyone likes putting the boot into Fax,and were just supposed to take it.....I would rather play against Cornwall Centurions or John O'Groats Rovers......We are all feeling like utter crap!!!!!.......Well everyone in Calderdale that I know is......We were all well and truly intimidated on Sunday.......Family fun...what a joke.......

Peter Roe is a sad waste of human oxygen. We was intimidated by the fev mob from midday a friend of mine was in tears because she felt so intimidated. No place for these yobs in our game.

We are Champions you know?



Even the unfortunate events of Sunday would do well to take the gloss of that day for most. It's only because it is still fresh in the memory. In a year or 2's time [imost[/i will simply look back at it as the day we became Champions.

i could have coached the team to promotion that year.

Sorry mate,somebody is on a Life Support Machine!!! I rest my case on that one....everyone i know feels sick...end of

Aye, and everyone on here and beyond has shown both sympathy and concern. Everyone I know however are still over the moon we actually won and don't want to let the cretins that tried to ruin the day, ruin it. I'm sure when Mr Singer does make a full recovery the last thing he will want is for people to constantly remind him it was the day he was attacked, but the day his team became champions. I'm sure he'll remember the other bad part of that day quite well forever.

Strange thing I know but I need your help.
I use Microsoft Word. When I type Peter Smith or Peter Jones or Peter anything, MSWord accepts it without question, however when I type Peter Roe MSWord underlines the word Peter in red and spell check only offers the word Penis as an alternative. Does anyone else have this problem?

No, sorry. I use OpenOffice.

Just had a reply from My Gration:

Hello

Thank you for this.

I will forward to my editor..balance is important and I am only sorry
that our sports team were not at the event..but that is another story.

I was not working at the weekend so I have only just come into this...I
will investigate

Best wishes Harry

What planet are you on? there was no fighting in the south stand
The police charged into the Fax fans and started dragging people out, but lets not let the truth get in the way eh.
This was a tragedy waiting to happen, the person who started the fire is no way blameless, he racketed the tension up a couple of notches, as did the fax fans goading the Fev fans on the pitch, the fev fans trying to get on the pitch added to it. The Fax fans battling amongst themselves, after all this why the hellll did the police let all the fans leave the stadium at the same time, in the same dark car park, with no police precence. There is plenty of blame to be thrown around, i just hope the lad pulls through

Quote ="Blue & White Dynamite"You can also email directly to the presenter of your choice on Look North directly. Harry.Gration@bbc.co.uk etc. Put the words "Complaint re Peter Roe" in the subject box. If you feel strongly and enough and enough people write in then they may feel it necessary to respond. My Email stated: [iHarry I know you're not the person to direct complaints to, however I believe you may help in righting a wrong made on the programme tonight. Peter Roe's version of events at the Halliwell Jones were a blatant fabrication of events that could damage Fax's Super League ambitions. They were made by a man with a giant chip on his shoulder from being ousted as coach years ago. The flatcappers had already been fighting amongst themselves or with the York fans in their stand a long time before our guys were evicted from the stand. The stewards and police had been called in to sort out a fracas of some kind after 15 mins of the game starting. The programme's choice of "commentator" on the issue was nothing short of bias against the Halifax club. It should be stated in tomorrow night's show that the views expressed by Peter Roe were his own and that they may not be a true reflection of the events.This serious mis-judgement by the programme makers should be dealt with professionally and promptly (ie not waiting for 10 days to pass through the BBC complaints system). Your programme normally has my highest regard for top journalism and a balanced view however it missed the mark tonight by a long shot. Only a small amount of research would have revealed the axe Peter Roe has to grind and he took pleasure in plunging the knife in. I know that we can trust you to take the matter up with the programme makers. Yours sincerely[/i PS the bit about top journalism etc was a bit tongue in cheek, but you have to give a little to get a little.'" There was no fighting between fans in the south stand you sending that in is disgracefull and will not help the situation, it is a complete fabrication

Quote ="Blue & White Dynamite"You can also email directly to the presenter of your choice on Look North directly. Harry.Gration@bbc.co.uk etc. Put the words "Complaint re Peter Roe" in the subject box. If you feel strongly and enough and enough people write in then they may feel it necessary to respond. My Email stated: [iHarry I know you're not the person to direct complaints to, however I believe you may help in righting a wrong made on the programme tonight. Peter Roe's version of events at the Halliwell Jones were a blatant fabrication of events that could damage Fax's Super League ambitions. They were made by a man with a giant chip on his shoulder from being ousted as coach years ago. The flatcappers had already been fighting amongst themselves or with the York fans in their stand a long time before our guys were evicted from the stand. The stewards and police had been called in to sort out a fracas of some kind after 15 mins of the game starting. The programme's choice of "commentator" on the issue was nothing short of bias against the Halifax club. It should be stated in tomorrow night's show that the views expressed by Peter Roe were his own and that they may not be a true reflection of the events.This serious mis-judgement by the programme makers should be dealt with professionally and promptly (ie not waiting for 10 days to pass through the BBC complaints system). Your programme normally has my highest regard for top journalism and a balanced view however it missed the mark tonight by a long shot. Only a small amount of research would have revealed the axe Peter Roe has to grind and he took pleasure in plunging the knife in. I know that we can trust you to take the matter up with the programme makers. Yours sincerely[/i PS the bit about top journalism etc was a bit tongue in cheek, but you have to give a little to get a little.'" There was no fighting between fans in the south stand you sending that in is disgracefull and will not help the situation, it is a complete fabrication

So you think the police charging in to drag fax fans out, the arsonist who tried to burn the stand down equates to only 1%, fair play to you

You tool, theres been a thread on this so you should have seen it with the amount of time you've spent on here...

[urlhttp://viewtopic.php?f=15&t=472697[/url

Only Rovers fans could half kick someone to death and then sit back and pollish their halos. I was sat in the north stand with my wife and you could quite clearly see the Police dragging Rovers Fans out of the south stand way before the fire even started.

It was also quite clear that before many of the Fax fans had even got onto the pitch, the Rovers fans were surging at the line of stewards and police. How you can blame others for your own diabolical behaviour is beyond me.

That Halo must be mighty heavy.

23-22. Now go dig some coal for the offseason.

I have never kicked or half kicked anyone to death,
The halo is yours, read the threads and the Halifax fans refusal to accept there fans part in all of this is unreal. The attempt to burn the stand down, the goading on the pitch, ow i forgot we called you wnkrs, the police charging in your stand dragging folk out. This was there for the world to see, you are far from blameless in a shocking day