Think all clubs have their share of toxic fans...kr had their empty vessels and your own fans aren't perfect the way they treated Applegarth when in charge 2 years ago....anyway, good luck to Scott and Trueman, bout time they got a injury free run

100% mate, every club does which is exactly what I said in my post. Although I will be honest, some of the things I have seen come out of FC over the years have been beyond what I have seen at others, I'm talking wishing death on players for signing for a rival club etc, that's just mental to me how so many fans can get on board chanting something like that..

You are right about Applegarth aswell, which is why I had no issues what so ever about him calling the fans out when he moved on.

I've always found wzkey fans to be pretty balanced with huge chips on both shoulders. There were some right tw@ts followed them back in the day when the mines were still open. Most of them probably live in a caravan in some desolate place in the east coast by now. Much better than living in wakey of course

Yes I agree no player should be subject to that kind of abuse, but he labelled the FC fan base toxic, not the select few who sent messages. At the time they was were mainly good luck replies on social media. Made himself look silly with his outburst.

Well after what feels like forever we are finally at game week.

As always with friendlies the result is irrelevant, I think our fitness and intensity levels will be the key things to take away from Saturday, recall us struggling in those departments against Doncaster last year, which in hindsight should have had alarm bells ringing for the season to follow.

Can see it been the usual 40 mins for a lot of the key players (Asiata, Sezer, Ese Ese, Cust etc...) and 40 mins for the younger lads.

Then the York Acorn game used as another friendly type run out for the younger lads with a smattering of first teamers.

Either way it's great to see some rugby again, feels like it's been a long off season.

Re the twitter messages Trueman has supposedly received, I'll take with a pinch of salt, he only follows about 260 people, so to receive messages of anyonew, not just fc fans they both have to follow each other or your are unable to message that person.

Does it really matter how many messages he has received? He's still receiving them as did Scott. I don't agree with Scott labelling the whole fanbase as toxic like he did but I can also understand why he made such an outburst when he's receiving such messages.

The discussion should more be about what can be done to stop players receiving such messages in the first place. Because they don't deserve that. In fact no one does because this isn't just about sports people or "celebrities" as we can all be victims of such things. More needs to be done to stop people hiding behind phrases like "freedom of speech", "entitled to my opinion" and even "banter" when they are really just being vile, abusive and toxic. At the moment there's no real consequences to such behaviour.

And that's not just aimed at us. As Homme Vaste says, every club has it's fair share of idiots as does every fandom whether it's your favourite TV show, films, your favourite band etc.

After all the changes, takeover etc i've not looked forward to a season more since before the start of the 2016 season.

As plenty have said over the last few months, it's going to be a long process but as long as we are competing every week and putting pride back in the badge then that is a big step forward. COYH

With the updates of squad health moving near yo season opener hopefully the ankle injury picked up by Charles isn’t too serious, he’s not having much luck this off season rolling his ankle after getting back from his hamstring injury. Matty Laidlaw also picking up a knee injury for Donny too.
Fingers crossed a speedy recovery for both of them.