Canberra Raiders drummer attacked by Canterbury fans, feared serious injury if Bulldogs lost the match.
A well-known Canberra Raiders drummer who says he was struck in the head and abused by Canterbury fans after Sunday afternoon's match at Belmore feared he could have been seriously injured had the Bulldogs lost.
"I would have left that ground in an ambulance," Simon Tayoun told this masthead.
Video footage emerged online of Tayoun, 59, being surrounded by up to a dozen fans wearing Bulldogs colours on Burwood Road following Canterbury's 22-18 victory over the Raiders.
The mob verbally abused Tayoun while one fan tried to drag him down to the ground as he was holding the heavy drum he takes to every Raiders match.