Beat at home by London. Games with Leeds, Toronto, HKR and Salford to come. Not looking good for them-hilarious. Where's Johnno the great? Probably watching their WCC win on his Betamax.

Poor Jonnothegreat's cat
He/she will cowering in a Widnes bedsit, under an Emosi Koloto duvet, with a dose of terminal diahorea, wondering when the next slipper will be thrown.

Got to fear for their superleague future now. They may not even make the million pound game. I won't miss their pitch, we will miss the points though.

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What’s this?!!!!! Widnes once won the World Club Challenge?!!!! Their fans need to raise awareness of this IMHO

It's all covered in this news article.

oh no has been banned, he's not coming back

Joking aside I am worried about Widnes. This is another heartland side, with decent facilities that is in decline.

Must admit ... I don't enjoy this sort of thread. I remember well how horrible playing in the Middle Eights was. I don't wish it on anyone.

Its going to be replaced by a 1 up 1 down..under that format its much better..

I very much doubt if our CEO will be having much of a laugh. Way, way back in darkest 2016 we entertained Widnes at the HJ and had an attendance of just over 15,000. I guess when you add in hospitality, beer sales etc etc we probably trousered £350,000. Meanwhile, Widnes with their very limited resources look financially vulnerable. It looks as though they are going down, and I don't see them coming back up sometime soon, if at all.

I would have much preferred if it was Saints or Wigan that had been beaten last night by London. Then we could all have had a good laugh.

I,m almost sure Warrington only managed to beat London Broncos by 1 point last season in the middle 8's, so there's not a lot of difference there.

Got over the Catalans semi-final loss yet?

Yeh but you only need to win by 1 point as you recently found out.

Whoah! But hang on there, not sure if you’ve heard, but Widnes won the World Club Challenge once. Not a fair comparison at all

Maybe we should un-ban him.

Yeah and we were shown plenty of sympathy from our neighbours...

Wouldn't know about that, we've never got that low to play in the middle 8's.

Where would you rather go to watch one of our away games? Widnes or Toronto? We need Widnes and their supporters,in greater numbers admittedly, to get out of the hole they have been digging and survive. If not I can see the club folding,and that would be able great shame

When Widnes started the season in good form a few years back, The HJ sold out for their visit. Yes, sold out!! We are lucky to scrape 11000 against saints or wigan these days.

If Widnes folds we can safely say the game should be read the last rites. There will be only 5 viable professional clubs soon.

It pains me to say but I'd much rather Widnes stayed up (great previous points about our attendance v the chemics)- we would really miss them. At this moment in time, i'd love it more than anything if stains got relegated, but, after a few years I think I'd want them back competing again. A rivalry is meaningless without a competing other half.

They’d be laughing harder than us if roles were reversed

"Love 'em"
The middle 8s are a farce, though
A straight one up, one down will suffice