for homophobic chants at Gareth Thomas.

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I think that's quite harsh on the club itself, but I suppose there's no other way of combating it.



Fair or not, they should fustration towards their own supporters and not the RFL.

Agreed. The supporters caused this with their own actions.

Visiting Castleford back in the days when we had Ellery Hanley and Henderson Gill in our ranks was a special experience indeed.



This story doesn't surprise me at all.

True, but according to the statement, the club did nothing to stop it, and haven't done anything about finding the culprits.

In that case the club can't have any real grounds for objection then IMO. For a club in this day and age to not take any action (which looks like they're trying to avoid the issue entirely) on something like this is poor.

If this is true, it's pathetic.



Castleford were pretty proactive with the loudspeakers when it came to whipping up frenzied hatred against Wigan under 18s, but suddenly they're incapable of using them to stop racist chanting?



No wonder they got fined.

Cas to appeal - [url=http://castleford.dyndns.org/article.php?id=867=#FF0000castleford.dyndns.org/article.php?id=867[/url

This genuinely isn't a dig, but it seems funny the RFL ignore fans throwing lunchboxes, beer etc at players, but fine clubs £40k for their fans' chanting?



No excuse for Cas though, no place in the game and a deserved fine - although I doubt it will stop the cretins doing the same thing again.

That's the key part I presume - if true the Cas club have nobody to blame but themselves.

No, be honest, it clearly is a dig!



Are you seriously suggesting that throwing an empty plastic bottle is worse than Racist or homophobic chanting??

You're right, throwing things at players is equally indefinsible, but it has taken the RFL 3 months to fine Cas if the incident was in March. God only knows what's going on inside Red Hall now!