is that why the chavs from st helens was hanging around like a bad smell? its a rugby league fan group who correspond and are in regular contact with the club with the sole intention to raise atmosphere and bring a together feeling between fans they arn't some underground organised fight club from football.



when there is a heavy amount of stewards and police officers for no other reason apart from rumours this will cause trouble.

Well me and my lad walked up to the turnstiles with a load of lads who had obviously been on the pop and were singing. They were all searched and we got through unchallenged. So if you want to get your flags and socket sets in next season you know how to do it!

The Saints fans were great as usual in my experience. They are proper fans much like ourselves who like a bit of 'friendly' banter but it never goes further.



Fully respect them unlike some sets.

In which case (and I don't disagree), then why did those in charge of the Stewarding feel the need to have such a bullish approach? Can't help but think a more passive line, with the option to front up when fully necessary, would have been better?

Hey I understand what your are saying mate.



I just think that the ultras name leaves you open, and could potentially bite you on the bum.



I do think the fan group thing is good, certainly for improving and generating an atmosphere. I just think 'ulltra' might lead people to think 'ey up, could be trouble here today'.

I got my 6 year old son a bottle of fizzy pop inside the ground but he was not allowed to have the screw lid. I asked why and was quoted heath and safety. I asked what a 6 year old boy would do with a lid? Not a reply back. So he can have a plastic bottle full of pop, but put a lid on it and you have heath and safety problem??

yeah i do understand it but if saints was really that worried i am sure they could of had a meeting with the group organisers.



there is idiots and you never know when more of them idiots may meet up but treating fans like animals is very provocative

they do that at music festivals i guess its to do with flicking them at somebody or even on the pitch.

Why can't everybody just accept the simple explanation that the reason the stewards and police were in large attendance is that the ground and town are in Merseyside?

Or that they have an in-built inferiority complex.

So you can throw a bottle, but not the lid?? Sorry I dont understand this one bit.



Late into the game someone from the back did throw a nearly full bottle of beer down to front, hitting the advertisement boards.