that you miss my witty banter and good natured humour?

Yes that was certainly missing.

Glad I'm not the only one, and every year after that as we got knocked out of the Cup my friend's dad would say "oh well there's always next year..."

I genuinely and naively thought it would be a rerun of the previous year particularly when Bevan went over...it turned into the longest of days

I thought there was a rule that we had to win. Didn’t help that as a denizen of N-le-W I had no idea where Widnes was.

Never mind, half of Widnes don't know, either

I remember going on the train to the 1975 final. Direct from Bank Quay to Wembley, silver service meal en route, £10 all in. Good old British Rail.

Your mob have been described over on the Wigan board today as 'below Leigh' in their list of biggest games.

So much for this so-called 'big rivalry' you claim to have with them, which is evidently the biggest 'one way rivalry' in Super League.

Your rivals are Widnes. And we've won a World Club Challenge. Perhaps you aspire to win one yourselves?

Widnes fans don't aspire to be like Wire though. We certainly don't want to go 63 years (and counting) without being Champions.

Remember...the Pies have you below Leigh!

Widnes is that a small town in Runcorn?

Talking of Leigh there's a good chance Widnes will be playing them next season and I don't mean in super league

Well I have Widnes above Leigh...but not by much...about 5 or 6 league places.
Mellor might be a good capture when his contract gets ripped up this year.

Good news for Wigan then, they're more likely to have a big Derby against leigh to look forward to next year than a guaranteed 4 points against widnes and a trip to the pitch that nobody likes and IMO isn't suitable for superleague.

I'm saving up now for Canada and Toulouse next year already.

Widnes went their first 103 years without being crowned Champions... ONE HUNDRED AND THREE YEARS!

I could get to my 70th birthday and not see Wire win the GF (I’m 36) and Wire would still be doing better than 103 years without being crowned Champions!

63 years isn’t even Wire’s worst run, 72 years is, but it’s a damn site smaller than 103 years. So I’ll be quite happy to better our worst run and wait for a GF in the next eight years.

But 103, Widnes, 1-0-3!

Be longer for the next one.

And what you seem unable to grasp is that not a single wire fan (probably) aspire to be like widnes, even with their wcc.

and all their relegations...

Anyway, Widnes should be very grateful for Warrington. If it weren’t for us there would be no Widnes RL. We donated all of our Christmas and Easter derby games’ gate receipts to keep them afloat in 1928. Without Wire they’d have gone bust!

Jonnothegreat always a welcome visitor, he's the site's finest example of an oxymoron

Fixed that for you
Always here to help

Now now LG BTW I quite like 'old' Jonno it's a comfort that he's a visitor and not one of our own with the added feel good factor that we aren't Widnesians

Like comfort food ...difficult to resist but you know you’ll feel you’ve let yourself down if you give in to your baser instincts and respond.

He's also on a final warning and should be winding his neck in.

Just a quick [iheads up[/i to Jonnothegreat
Here's what's happened since The Comics last tasted victory in SL.

We've had
The fifth in line to the throne born
The old fifth in line to the throne debagged and raddished on his stag do
The old fifth in line to the throne marrying
Trump meeting two adversaries
Man City smashing records in the Premier League
It "piddling" it down for another 2 months, yet we're only a week away from a hose pipe ban

A weeks a long time in politics. Four months without a win in SL is a ####ing eternity.
Rather than comparing Warrington's rivalries, I'd concentrate on Widnes' MANY shortcomings, if I were you.
You're just a pooh Huyton

Less than two hours after ANOTHER tonking, and JTG is lurking on here, again.
I'm beginning to think he's not a Comic fan, at all

most unfair on runcorn cornians refer to widnes as "The dark side"