Seems to be saying if an opposition fan goads you it's ok to punch them in the nose.

The way I see it is like this:

Salford took 1000 fans. I estimate 400 entered the pitch at the end, overjoyed at pulling off the greatest of escapes. Most were celebrating amongst themselves, some also went to get a rise out of the home fans.

Some home fans ran on the pitch. They were not in a joyous frame of mind, so let's assume they went to confront the away fans.

Sporadic scuffles inevitably broke out. The instigators should be easy to identify - man, woman or minor, they need banning from the game.

The clubs need fining and Hull KR need to pay for more stewards/ police at games such as this in future.

Fortunately for you and your nonsensical point people are legitimately outraged by it.

Just illegal

If your going to goad fans in that pressure cooker situation you can't be surprised if someone gives you a crack ,cue over the top reaction by certain posters

Don't worry I'm sure wakey fans will start misbehaving again soon, don't want to be outdone n all that?
strange man

A hint of crowd trouble and up you pop like the grim reaper. How bizarre you are.

a hint? fair enough then i must be seeing different things to people who think fighting is an acceptable part of the game.

Not sure it is actually.
It's illegal to enter the field at a "designated sporting event". However, my understanding is that only football is deemed to be a "designated event".
Entering the field of play may be against the stadium regulations, but I don't think it's a criminal offence.

It wouldn't have happened if there had been any kind of thought or planning gone into policing, segregating and stewarding the fans. You could see even from the tv it was non existant. Nobody is condoning it but when emotions are running that high from one end of the spectrum to the other this was an incident waiting to happen. Hopefully this is lesson learned for next year, and people's safety won't be taken so lightly.

It shouldn't be allowed to get to that stage but unfortunately due to poor stewards/security it does happen and if you're going to continually goad opposition fans that's what they must be wanting and deserve. Any trouble or potential trouble should be nipped in the bud early to stop it escalating but often isn't, that's the problem.

That's because Huddersfield is a soulless plastic club with no passion

Is this thread still going? Jeez
Such a shame the excellent ending to the game has been forgotten. Typical rl fans concentrate on any negatives

No, their fan is clearly very passionate and he has plenty of space around him at home games so he never has a crossed word with anyone

Has made one of the main articles on ITV Regional news tonight. Poorly reported IMO and as disgusting as the scenes were it certainly wasn't a balanced report and basically blamed all the trouble on Salford fans when there were clearly both sets of fans involved and to blame.

Going back to the pitch invasion, I'm sorry but it has been going on for years and it will continue to do so in venues where there isn't sufficient stewarding/policing. Watch any lower league football play off game/relegation decider and it inevitably ends in a pitch invasion. If anyone can mention a rugby league match with such a ridiculous ending as Saturday I'll buy you a pint. And it's easy for fans of successful clubs to mock but imagine supporting a team that's been a shower of e for pretty much 30 years. Salford get relegated on Saturday and their future is seriously in doubt. 78 minutes gone and the final nail is being lined up for the coffin... you're distraught, this could be the end of the club you love as you know it. Then a miracle happens, think Nou Camp 99, THAT Aguero goal or Jimmy Glass for Carlisle. The players go mental, the fans want to celebrate that moment with them and 99% of fans celebrate peacefully. A lot of Salford fans can be seen commiserating the HKR players as well which has barely been mentioned. But hey, any other teams fans would just stand there motionless and give an extra tap on their drum as a sign of what a jolly splendid afternoon they've had eh?

Throw the book at anyone involved in the fighting from both sides, it's deplorable and they're n0bheads the lot of them. Don't demonise a club and a whole set of fans though.

It would seem that 3 people have been arrested,thus far,and it seems to suggest that twice as many Hull people have been arrested in contrast to the 1 Salford follower.

A sign of things to come,possibly...

Meast will drag it on as long as possible. He's the equivalent of a rubber necker at a car crash scene that one!

Yes, let's just ignore the "nothing disturbance" that's exactly the way to prevent violence at games escalating. Let's not do anything that would force clubs to improve stewarding or weed out undesirables, or make those a little worse for drink think before they behave badly.






Can't wait to take my kids to games like the ones I visited in the bad old days where you were lucky if you just got bottles of pee thrown at you instead of bricks.

Majority of salford fans were celebrating, and rightly so.

nobody condones the salford fans behaviour in this but the blame for poor policing and stewards lies soley with the home club . ps the situation is compounded by the reliably incompotent humberside police making only 2 arrests on the day

Was you there? A fair few Salford fans who ran onto the pitch came straight over to the east stand goading the KR fans onto the pitch. Both sets are equally to blame as each other.

Hull City were at home to Chelsea and kicked off at the exact same time. I don't think you can blame Rovers for scheduling such an important game to kick off at the same time as a high profile Premiership game. No wonder the Police were stretched.

Glad you've told me that, i best not bother anymore then?

Good post