A quote from Martyn Sadler in his colume in todays league express

What a great bunch of supporters the Warrington fans are, and what a happy bunch they look.
They are a club that is setting the pace in super league in many ways, and i am delighted that they are back at wembley for a second year.
The Warrington club isn't just a club with great players and a superb coach in Tony smith, but it's a club that genuinely feels like it is the central feature in the Warrington community.
It's a club at which any supporter always feels welcome, at least in my experience.
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It makes me feel proud to be a wolves supporter.

Amen to that!

He also says there is an announcement in next week's paper which involves LE and us.

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I would have to disagree with the "Any supporter is made to feel welcome" statement. Every time i have visited HJ we havn't been made to feel welcome. We've even been chased back to the train station. Now i know its not all of the warrington fans, as some are genuine rugby league fans and you can have a decent chat with, but its just a small number of idiots that aren't making us very welcome.

We've got our share of scroats of that there can be no doubt, but the vast majority are decent folk. To be honest though, other than Hull FC away, I'm yet to feel threatened at any RL game, or any sporting event to be honest. Maybe I have just been lucky.

Given that Catalans players and fans had bottles of beer thrown at them yesterday I wouldn't concur with Mr Sadler's comments!

I had speckles of beer thrown my way.

i had the main bunch of catalan fans just to my left and saw some sort of altercation just after we had scored,1 catalan fan was giving us the finger and taunting a section of wire fans...dont know what provoked him tho

That would be the beer bottles that were being thrown!

Handful of idiots. I'll take an independent journalist's judgement over another fan's.

LE ?

League Express?

Oui.

What about someone who was there translating for the French? The touch-judge even reported and gave one of the bottles thrown on the pitch to the 4th official. It happened don't try and brush over it, try and kick those out who did it!

I agree with that and wasn't trying to brush over it. I was commenting on his overall judgement of the fans being welcomed. Warrington is a very friendly place full stop, never mind the rugby.

How many did we take to Widnes? 11,500/ 12000? That is not our normal gate so it would suggest that not all are regulat Warrington/ Rugby league fans. Love to welcome new people to the game as long as they behave. If they can't behave then I don't want them as we all get tarred with the same brush.

The announcement was re the East Stand. As the bottles were plastic it would have taken one hell of a throw to reach the Catalans fans in the middle of the North Stand.

Maybe it was Wigan fans trying to give us a bad name...

I was sat near there (and it was the North Stand even though the announcement said East) and saw two bottles being thrown into the Catalans fans. Unbelievable when we were comfortably winning the game, but we do seem to attract a few sewer dwelling inbreds amongst what is, in the vast majority, a friendly and lively group of supporters. No wonder Catalans fans were upset! My understanding was that we had a good reputation over there - I imagine thats gone now when this is fed back which is a real shame.

Idiots - no excuses.

I noted that Warrington supporters were applauding the arrival of Catalan fans before kick off...I also shook hands with several Catalan supporters after the game outside the ground...wished them a safe jounrey home..they passed on their good luck wishes for the final.

For every one negative story you can find at any RL match...my guess is you'll find 20+ positive, friendly stories.

Perhaps a few idiots!!!hope it doznt spoil the relationship we have with the catalans fans and the warm welcome we have been given on each trip to france.
Most of the west stand stood to applaud jerome guissett back in to posistion after they scored their 2nd try yesterday and he returned the favour waving to the wire fans and clapping...

Agreed. I had a great sing with some Catalan fans post match and they wished us luck. Said they loved playing the Wire.

Sorry to the chap who got the 'missiles' chucked at him. Same happened amongst the Warrington crowd at Wigan. Fancy wasting a perfectly good pint? And amongst your own kin too. Me being me I marched up to the testosterone teenager and told him to chuck his pint down his throat not my pony tail. Bless him - he looked about 12. Guess you find that everywhere, he will be out of nappies soon.

While that is more than likely very true, it doesn't matter as one negative story will massively outweigh anything else.

I'm amazed that some Wire 'fans' took it upon themselves to chuck beer etc at the travelling French contingent.

Pathetic.

Catalans Allez Allez Allez..