He had a bit of a swear, no-one was killed or maimed and the sky didn't fall in; he's only human and his apology seems fair enough.

you kind of miss the point i was making. to be fair i wasn’t explicit i think broadbent’s apology is poor from a club perspective.

the club should have managed the message better, we are afterall engaged in a sport that is now more about pr than what happens on the pitch.

in fact they should have written it for him and had it worded so that there was no hint whatsoever of an attempt to justify his behaviour and finished it off with a line from glover along the lines of “paul broadbent has donated £250 to the youth development scheme and this now closes the matter”. what worries me is that mr glover failed to get the appropriate pr sense check in place before the message went out. however that’s just my opinion, and if people don’t like other opinions than their own and think then that’s fine with me.

mr broadbent has always seemed like a decent enough bloke to me when i’ve heard him speak, i’m sure it was a one off and as a result of the massive frustration and pressure that being at a club in the position we have been in all year. he isn’t the first person to make such comments at a rugby game and he won’t be the last. i wish him well, but i don’t think that his future is with wakefield.

That's a fair point, can you imagine the mayhem if Kear did sit in the dug out. Can't recall a touchline Coach since Andy Kelly in his early days.

I also remember AK having some verbals with a fan at an Alliance game so it happens to the best of them.

If you have a problem with the moderation process then you need to take it up with the site admin, cheers JT.

Err, no they wouldnt. They would edit it and warn you.

be gratious and forgive... families fall out!

but good ones stick together!

In all honesty it's pretty poor at the club when Kear is blaming fans for the defeat and his assistant is hurling foul and abusive language at fans. Can't wait until they both go, I'll be the 1st to buy a season ticket.

So when did he do that, link please

Why are we even still talking about this?

To those still saying is apology wasn't good enough etc, get real.
Some/A fan hurled abuse at PB and the team, he retaliated. What were they expecting him to do?
If you wind someione up, don't complain when they then GET wound up.

Although I don't like 'abusive' language on the terrace (rather than just swearing) and wouldn't have liked it if directed at me, he has accepted it was a mistake and apologised. I don't think he is wrng to still point out that there was a reason he cracked.

It always makes me laugh when everybody defends the right of the fans to abuse the players because they pay their wages but the reverse doesn't apply. If he thinks that the attitude of the fans (or a single fan) is wrong, or at least unhelpful, why can't he say so?
Swearing aside, I have no problem with him saying what he said in either the incident on the field or the apology.

Have to agree.
It also shows he has passion and although channeled in the wrong place it was there.

He's apologised, lets move on.

Yet another example, in a very, very, very long list of internet forums over analysing things?

Seems to me you're damned if you do and damned if you don't when the going gets tough; retaliate and you're the devil incarnate; turn the other cheek and you don't care!

Yes you're right but it's a forum what do you expect?. I'ts like most things in modern culture, everything examined in detail, arguments had and blame apportioned. Just listen to the Jeremy Vine show if you want to see the ultimate in human knit picking. Has it ever been any different? I suspect not - suppressed perhaps.

Nowt queerer than folk

Out of curiosity was the tall bald guy the dude who used to stand with Roonaldo's gang who always wore a postman's uniform?

No its not him.

No matter where we used to stand home or away Roonaldo's gang would stand next to us, (or the tanned elderly flat cap guy who used to always talk to the crowd about working at the Yorkshire Post) if we moved to another spot they always seemed to move with us :/

I remember once going to Valley Parade alone and sitting right behind them, I screamed and shouted for 80 minutes and continually offered the Bulls fans out, I'd never seen them so quiet. The usually loud and offensive lads looked rather dejected that someone could be as obnoxious as them.

your parents must be SO proud of you!

You know I don't think he means himself I think he means the bald guy but I'm not sure. However it's a strangely written post typical of the poster.

It was a one off! Apart from those 2 notorious Wigan games.



Quite, which means I wasn't actually at that Bulls game.

Gave him to much credit

so your parents were proud of you as a one off??

better than not at all!!

Vasty do you read on the toilet?

Doesn't everyone

I am a one off!



"There's only 1 Lupset_Airport!" - Which to Vasty means there's isn't even 1 Lupset Airport, which just isn't true!