One of the ball boys picked something up they thought was drugs not a clue if it was or maybe pain killers...



Plenty of smoking in the toilets and too much alcohol flowing.

I didnt realise your wife was there...lol

Fair point,



It wasnt all fax/fev fans it was a minority (as it always is,thank god),but as iv just put on another post if we get asked to stage the mickey mouse finals next year id tell them to shove it...



As for the drugs at games,at Wigan away this season the toilets were like pete doherty's tour bus,it was just a drug den.Im not condoning it atall but im used to this sort of thing,iv been going to football away games for years and im relatively new to RL since i moved from norfolk (1st season was 2nd to last at wilderspool).We do advertise RL as a family sport,seems it is slowly losing that tag...

I think the 'family sport' tag is just paper over the cracks. There is an element of rogue characters within the game, players and fans alike, but it's a society issue, not solely an RL issue. I've heard some pretty nasty stories from yesterday's game and most of it seems to stem from alcohol fuelled antics. Doesn't mean we're all animals that should be caged, but I do wish people wouldn't be so fickle about it. A lot of mud gets slung when incidents like this occur, "your fans are worserer than our fans" "our fans were provoced" etc. People act like knobs no matter where they're from or who they support, end of. I'd also like to see such behaviour discouraged at matches, people seem to turn a blind eye when it's 'their' fans, yet are often on t'interweb slagging others off for the same.

You do realise that Oldham fans were in that stand as well dont you? How do you know that it wasnt a disgruntled Oldham fan? ahhh you dont.

I'm waiting for Dropkick to come and post on this topic backing up the smokers.

After all, he did it when something similar was posted about people smoking in the toilets at Widnes. What was it now? Something about "oh, they have an addiction. A smoke isn't going to cause that much damage. Get over yourself".

On a side note maybe this incident is a catalyst that sees your apalling PA system upgraded, very little heard all night in the south stand, maybe it might have been a lot calmer and organised if the fans could hear things

I think he's banned.

For Warrington home games we have additional speakers placed at pitch level, now I'm not sure if they had those yesterday.



I do agree that the PA system that is built in should be upgraded with bigger, clearer speakers in the roofs, like the one's at Old Trafford.

They did have the seperate speakers yesterday, but the emergency announcements were made through the tannoy system so it wasnt that clear. The announcers both talked over each other which didnt help matters.

Yeah they use the ground tannoy for emergency announcements as I think that can be heard across all aspects of the ground in the concourses & office areas, not just the pitchside where the large speakers are...