yeah right, perhaps with the amount of antipodeans you have the queensland cup would be a better alternative.

anyway have you read the AUP about derailling threads????

My point being it takes time to build a Super League team and be truly competitive in SL. People like yourself expect results overnight though. Thank god there are a few more realists about.

Which has nothing to do with your claims you would win the NRC if you entered it


My point being I dont think there is much of a gap between yourselves and the teams at the top of the championship

We can't enter as we're a British rugby league club.

Besides the cost of travel to away games would be astronomical.

Surely up yours taff and rich did more to derail this thread than I did?

All my posts were on topic until this attack aimed at us two.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

It is not that obvious as we're playing at a much higher standard but we have added a lot of better quality players to last years squad and lasy years squad missed out on winning the grand final due only to a penalty with the last kick of the game.

Fancy that,a try scorer celebrating with enthusiasm,you don't often see that.What's up,did Widnes spoil your evening by winning?Nevermind,I am sure we have 1 or 2 defeats left in us this year to help cheer you up.Our loan signings are all above board by the way and we have also loaned out players too.

Barrow only lost by 16 points over the 80 minutes... maybe they should have the cup.

Welcome to Rugby League my friend. The teams with more points win.

Maybe in 2 or 3 years you will be given another chance to win the Northern Rail Cup.

Is there anything on this thread worth reading beyond page 4 or is it just another 4 pages of that attention whore cru derailing the thread?


UP THE CHEMICS!

It should be a thread where fans of all clubs congradulate Widnes on winning the NR cup, but never gonna happen on the VT.

Oddly enough I was just going to do that. Finished off my weekend well, a good game that was won in the first half - looked like both teams ran out of adrenalin in the 2nd half.

Nice, trouble free day. What rugby league is all about, and a bit of biff on the field is always good for the fans.

Well done to Widnes, they were easily the better side on the day. I thought we might just be in with a chance mid way through the second half but in the cold light of day Pennys two tries sealed it IMO. Our danger players Harrison and Nixon didnt get the service and widnes snuffed them out when they did get decent service. At the end of the day you cant expect to win cup finals when you make silly mistakes from the KO like Barrow did.

It should, but when you have people like fingerposts around you can see why it doesnt happen.

I believe it was at this point where it all went downhill...

Very enjoyable day, lots of Widnes and Barrow fans mixing in the pubs of Blackpool prior to kick off and the banter was great. I must say the Barrow fans were in great spirits and everyone we saw before kick off was having a great time.

The game wasn't the most skilful, but the committment was there from both teams and I certainly think the Cup has a place in the Championship fixtures.

The league will be interesting now, Barrow will be a different team with Jamie Rooney in it, and Fax are still the runaway leaders. Lots of good rugby to look forward to!

Yet rising to it and carrying it on for a further 4 pages is the right thing to do?

Nope - there's quite a few posts with various Widnes fans embarrassing themselves and their club as well.

Anyway...

Thoroughly enjoyable game and well done Widnes on the win. I was cheering you on - at least one FC player will get a winners medal this season.

Nope, but people never learn.

I'd hardly call 1 point runaway

Yes but win your game in hand over Barrow it's 4, and your two games over us and its 6.

Not too many games left now, I personally think you'll finish top anyway.

Anyway back on topic, a great day had by all and great credit to the Barrow fans who did there club proud.

I sincerely hope you're right mate but it still doesn't "tick any boxes" (god how I'm sick of hearing that expression, we used to discuss the game!)

Widnes and Crusaders fans come across as absolute morons on this Forum, They should probably ban us both from the VT unless we can grow up.

For what its worth yesterday was a brilliant day to be a Viking. I said it before i went that i was really nervous about this match, Barrow are a good team if lacking in direction at times and this was always going to be a tough one. And right from the opening salvo you knew it was going to be a bruiser with both teams putting in some big shots ( both legal and not ). The two yellow cards helped calm things down and on the whole the ref managed a fiery encounter well.

Part of me thought we had it won at Half time and part of me Still was not convinced until Varkulis went over in the last few minutes. The game breaker was probably Barrows failure to deal with the kick off after their first second half try. When Widnes scored from the resulting set of six you could see the belief in our players grow.

Was Great to see such a good turnout from both clubs fans, plenty of banter in the bars before the game and in the ground without any trouble from what i could see. And i dont think i have encountered such a gracious set of fans in defeat as Barrow, Leaving the stadium and heading back to the front the number of barrow fans congratulating us was staggering. They helped build the atmosphere before, During and after the game. I wish the club much future success ( so long as it dosent come at our expense ).

Great to see a good number of RL kits on display in blackpoool over the weekend, i went on Friday and saw Wigan, Dewsbury, Sheffield, Leeds, Hull KR, Leigh, St Helens, Featherstone, Keighly and others i cant recall right now. All in all it was a good weekend, How about we all grow up and not start petty bickering over something 99% of the users of this forum couldnt give a damn about and just enjoy the fact that This was a good weekend for RL.