I FELT disappointed in the comments that some so-called York City Knights fans made after and during their latest match against Hunslet Hawks.

Defeat is never easy to take whichever sporting team you happen to support and the Knights deservedly lost to a team who seemed to have more enthusiasm on the day.

However, comments such as "You're the worst player I have ever seen", "Get back to Featherstone" and racial remarks about one of the players, which, in my opinion has no place at any sporting arena, are out of order.

It does not generate the sort of atmosphere that makes players lift their game to better heights when simply having a bad day at the office as we all surely have at one time or another.

This is the same group of players who over recent weeks have given many fans a great deal of pleasure with their performances and have had standing ovations even from some of the fans who jeered them, one defeat does not make them bad players or indeed decide our fate this season.

The players need the support more when playing badly than when winning at a canter.

A Brown,

Lansdowne Terrace

York

Updated: 11:37 Tuesday, April 20, 2004