Widnes 8 - Whitehaven 18.

Been a good game, would say that whitehaven are good for the lead.

Haven are playing against 14 men. Ronnie Laughton is having is usual game.

20-20 now, Haven love them first round playoff games

Just got funnier

Widnes were lucky

There was only going to be one winner when Rockin' Ronnie walked out.

the sin bin helped widnes hope we dont get him

haven bombed it goin for 2 points wen they had widnes on the rack then goin for drop goal!.. its all about momentum, they were unlucky with the disalowed try, this obstruction rule is a joke and needs sorting out

it was the video ref who robbed them - not Ronnie

Yes, Ronnie likes Widnes of that there's no doubt. The vid ref was right with the obstruction ... very unlucky but Webster was slightly impeded which made a very small difference, but a difference nonetheless.

I was amazed Haven turned their recent shocking form round, but having said that, take Thackery out of Widnes and you're left with nak all really. Gannon still works hard and Doran makes yards. But Jamie Webster and Mark Smith aren't anywhere near as good as Black and Gleeson/Penky. Cullen looked worried, as he should. They'll have to step up a few gears if they make it to the GF, but hey it's cup rugby, owt can happen!

Duffy/Morrison/Gaskell/Kohe Love were all missing, granted we played crap and Varks went off pretty early. To say were a one man team is laughable.

Tart

You was lucky tonight. Haven tired after playing Sunday and as ever Laughton helped you lot. Without Thackray you would have lost tonight. Thackray is the only real game breaker you have as Smith, Webster, Duffy etc are average. Play like that against Sheffield, Fax or Barrow and its goodnight. Widnes however do not need to reach the GF as they won the cup and are under no real pressure now as the box for SL is ticked.Cullen however has a lot of work to do after tonight. Attacking wise you looked clueless except Thackray. Defence was average as well.

You and i both know we can play a hell of a lot better than that, i look forward to another return trip to the shed sorry shay.

i hope you dont come to the shay until next season.

Oh how I love these reasoned well discussed debates with our smelly friends from the land of the red brick!

I must say, i thought Ronnie was doing the favouring towards Haven today. Usual Haven niggly tactics again IMO, Widnes also bombed/could have had another 3 tries.

Listen mr am i right, i have just about had enough of rude Halifax fans tonight. May i remind you that 1. Mutants dont exist and 2. Scousers are from Liverpool.

Widnes is in Cheshire.

Am i right?

Im not wrong?

Tart

In the keep net. Get in there !!!

cheers tommy, was at the match tonight and thought haven got away with murder in the first half with all that lying on, with the referee been more even in the second! granted I havent seen the supposed dubious video referee decisions yet. However in play off rugby you just need to win if we'd have gone out there and played are best and lost it would'nt of mattered and we'd be out is, but the fact is we clearly didnt play our best with four first team starters missing and a bunch of young players i'm very happy with the win

Laughton allowed both sides to slow the PTB down. And often the 10 was not 10 but 9 metres. Haven very unlucky on the obstruction. Laughton simply cant keep up with play and makes up decisions.

Aye, actually that obstruction in the heat of the moment would have been given any other Sunday, HOWEVER to the law of the game and slowed on video, it was the right decision. It was a very short 10 too yes. But i still feel Haven were far more persistant and how many 50/50 forward passes did they get away with whereas Widnes got called for 2

i thought was lots of forward passes by both sides tonight that were not pulled up.
think couple ended in tries.

It's bluddy hard to call a forward for the ref on ground level, I'd only call it if it's blantent, a marginal one doesn't give much, if any, advantage really. And I HATE seeing Fax pulled up for dodgy forwards .... result changing decisions.

Re Ronnie's performance, he makes too many bad inconsistent calls .. seems to be swanning along nicely for 10 mins when he's got a hold then goes off on one and calls a really daft call. He was determined to pull someone for offside just before half time, just to show who was boss (he is a copper after all). And I can tell yer .... Miller wasn't even offside, and he was sin binned for it as well! Terrible call.

The scouser looked very poor tonight.

Hard to think they will get a result at the valley of death.