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Decent atmosphere in the away end, stayed to applaud the players off. Yeaman comes over to speak to someone at the front of the crowd and is initially blocked by a senior (and I say this because his high vis vest had 2 colours instead of one) steward blocks his way. He then lets Yeaman through the 20-strong cordon of stewards, but as he walks back gives Yeamo a shove for good measure. Then outside the ground there are Cheshire Police all riled up and shouting hysterically at fans of both sides to get off the road. Seriously? No hassle at all by either set of fans but if I didn't know better, I'd say the Stasi security team were hoping to incite something.

they always do... exact same happens when we (halifax) go down to play widnes

Similar scenes when Rovers went there as well IIRC.

Takes a brave man to shove Yeamo!

Same when we played Widnes in the cup. The stewards spoilt what was a good atmosphere.

You were all videoed from getting off the coach, through the game and back onto the coach. Any crimes committed will be followed up.

Seems a bit harsh to me.

Coppers on the concourse, too. Why?

I smiled and nodded and spoke in my 'posh' tone. They looked sheepish and smiled and nodded back. What else could they do? I'd be peed off if I lived in Widnes and was burgled tonight. Shameful waste of resources.

Maybe they were just checking how many wheels the bus had in case some scouse scally took a fancy to them

The over the top stewards at the cup match vs Widnes was the reason I didn't go tonight, by the sounds of it they were worse than last time. If they are going to be like this, I can't see many fans travelling to Widnes next season.

Thats right. Hurt them in the pocket. Hopefully fans of other teams will too. Widnes is a dump anyway.

They must have had "intelligence" that Hull City fans had travelled. That's the Leeds excuse for heavy handed stewarding.

In Widnes? I doubt it.

At least you don't have to play there every other week



The sooner we are out of there the better.

Not the brightest individuals in the best of times....

I've just got home.....

I admit I'm a little merry so please forgive my spelling etc...

The amount of times we, and others, were told to calm down when singing or objecting to ref decisions. Also many people being told to stop swearing...
We were threatened with being kicked out about five times for no reason...
We saw them filming the crowd and when the stewards got funny we asked them if they had consent to film us, legally.. They said, within the stadium you hold the same public rights as anyone and can take whatever photos they like... We started to take photos of the stewards and they told us to "stop taking f***ing photos" we simply, and tbh quite sarcastically, asked him to watch his own language and he just backed off and went to speak to his mate!!

We knew then they could do nothing and later 2 policemen came and agreed that it was ridiculous and noone was out to cause trouble!!

I've been twice now and it's been a terrible experience both times... Don't think I'll go again!!!

They don't have the right to just film you, in order for the police to film the EGT have to complete an in depth course on it and have to have certain authorities in place in order to do so!

Has anyone complained to the Widnes club, I am sure Mr O'Connor would be interested.

Re the police shouting at people to get out the road. At one point I had a fan who
I can only assume was very drunk run in front of my car and then try to 'catch' a moving car going the other way. I saw the police run to stop him and understandably so.

It's a shame adults need policing how to behave on a road but some obviously did last night!

I noticed the police around before going into the stadium and wondered at it because except when Warrington visited, we haven't really seen a police presence to speak of. Thought that was a bit OTT.

As for the lectures about swearing and stuff - it's ridiculous. We've been hounded endlessly every match via the tannoy for that and usually it leads to us in the East Stand (in our mature fashion) singing something with a swear word in it. Normally that is our 'Widnes is a hole' song.

Several times when i was there with Halifax and Dewsbury

FC Voices have written a letter on behalf of fans who contacted us regarding problems at the Challenge Cup Game. As our last meeting of 4th June we hadn't received a response.

The group we were with got told off about 5 times for all sorts of trivial things. It was the sane in the cup game, and completely unnecessary.

To be honest we never had any problems last night with the stewards or the police. I guess we have the knack of staying out of the way

Saw 1 kid arrested by police for banging on car roofs. only got yourself to blame son

Dont think too many widnes fans will be going to hull next year either..ive been many away games in superleague and championship and hull fans were by far the worst! Unprovoked attacks on our coaches..rocks thrown at people..fans ganging up on our fans..horrible people! I know there are decent fans too but my memories of hull are not good! Ok your ground is great but hull itself is a big hole!