Quote ="tropical1"Whilst I am totally against discrimination of any kind, I am left wondering on one thing. The week after the game Gareth Thomas was involved in an inside sport programme where he talked about homophobia in sport and highlighted us, no doubt his was paid a nice tidy sum for this interview there was also his article from a column he writes in the press. After this article and interview were broadcast there have been no other mentions about the abuse this player has had to put up with at various games, which leaves me with the question why has only one club been singled out, am I being cynical and saying that money is the motivation behind this???? Why haven't other clubs been highlighted in the media etc.'"
Maybe he felt this was the worst abuse he'e suffered? I'm sure that Thomas has no personal agenda against Cas, why would he? I imagine that, for whatever reason, he felt that the abuse he suffered at Cas was worse than anywhere else. There are a variety of reasons why that might have been, not least that maybe the abuse levelled at him at Cas was worse than anywhere else.
This is a large fine no doubt, and it might create some future problems for Cas but in terms of staying in SL, you probably have bigger problems.
I welcome yesterday's announcement, the protection of our LGBT players and support is important. Remembering that there will be a number of LGBT fans in any given crowd, and it is the ones shouting homophobic abuse that should be unwelcome at our grounds rather than any LGBT fans.
Hopefully now clubs will know that this type of thing will not be tolerated by the RFL and act on it when it arises and not when forced to after the fact.
