In the 'balled blokes' defence he stated that he would be a Wakey fan long before and long after beans and co had moved on.



He also got a similar response from james lowes when he was warrington coach.

boy he must be proud.

nice to see bold blokes consistant

Is this bloke 'balled' 'bold' or 'bald'?

hes got no hair mate

I don't think he should have used that language but I'm with him all the way. It's bad enough turning up to watch loss after loss but some people didn't give the team a chance before they started to slag them off.
Get real. We are a good Championship quality side that has been found out. We got wins before the other teams got going. If you want to blame someone have a go at Ted. The players did try today but are not good enough.
Role on next year which ever league it is.

time for beans and kear to sling their hooks. unprofessional.

maybe if either one of them had the slightest idea how to prepare a team for a game of rugby, they could have used their time better giving some direction to the team instead of picking fights with the crowd.

I think you may have misconstrued my point old chap, as i mentioned, i'm sure this was just a bad choice of phrasing from PB, and was not directed as a sweeping generalisation towards all the fans, even though at the time it did feel a little like that. As i say, everything is a grey area and i am very much with you that it is good to see a man who is seemingly passionate towards the job he is doing, especially with the limited resources that we have at our club. I am also with you in the fact that if fans just want to turn up simply to slag off the club, don't bother turning up at all, hence why we are known as "supporters" not "abusers" (ok i recognise that line could go anywhere!) But in any line of work where you are the employee, and you start throwing verbal abuse at the customer, irrespective of the line of work you are in or the verbal abuse you have recieved from that person, there are generally going to be repercussions from your employer, and negative responses from the public...

i would agree with all that 100%. see you at wigan next week mate

Is 'bald bloke' a tall skinny fella who persistently effs and jeffs from kick off to final whistle?

Got to go for me.

This is the first acid test of AG IMO.

A successful businessman would not accept such a gross misconduct towards customers.

Put it this way if one of his fitters did a job a customer wasn't happy with and the fitter reacted in such a way, you could bet he would have the due paperwork (P45) waiting for him when the boss heard about it.

Are we a business or an old lads club? Public apology from AG and removal of PB, anything short of that is hardly showing customer care.

What happened exactly?

I was up in the flats today and didn't see any altercation with fans.

Sounds like one of our mods!



I wish AG would read these boards as he probably still thinks Kear and Co do no wrong in the fans eyes.

James and Andrew and avid readers of these boards.

Nope, I'm pretty sure that's not the case.

Andy, you know what to do...





There's 4 or 5 of us go to every game when we are playing with belief, structure and purpose so make it happen once more!!

It has crossed my mind a few times, I know since Ted and Di's long overdue demise the club tried breaking away from the close family run feel but you never know.

How many games you got to this season L.A ?

Two too many.

Sometimes you have to be there to give a valued opinion & not through tagging on to something you have heard 2nd hand

No he's a biggish bloke.

Not who I was thinking of then.

What exactly happened - did Beans do a Cantona style flying kick, or just shout back at someone who was having a pop?

There seems to be a bit of a conundrum here for the club. We have the 'Rugby League is a family sport....' announcement and then, if reports of the use of the 'f' word are correct, we have a senior member of staff in the dock. Some may say that he 'was only reacting to provocation', but who defines what provocation is - a run of penalties, a player who polaxes one of ours, a punter who spills beer on someone, etc.... - if the use of foul language is 'not to be tolerated' then it should mean exactly that.

The Hickey Tweet was swept under the carpet (although we don't know if he was disciplined privately), but this, if proven to be correct, requires an apology.

Also, some realism; at every televised game, every week, one can be treated to a close up shot of most coaches and nearly all players yelling expletives - it's a mans game played by grown-ups and sometimes, grown-ups swear. The commentators often have a wry chuckle about it.

Having said that, when it spills over to a direct confrontation between a member of the coaching staff and a spectator then yes, it should be looked into.

Which coach was it who said "If you start listening to the fans, you'll end up sitting with them," or something along those lines.

That's typical mis informed nonesense - Steve Ferres appointed Broadbent.