Widnes quad:- https://www.widnesvikings.co.uk/news/ar ... -man-squad Good blend of youth /experience and local / non-local. Still think they are top five, even with the points deduction. Surely we must be due a win against them sometime soon, though? They finished below us in SL, but demolished us in all three games that season.

Widnes quad:- https://www.widnesvikings.co.uk/news/ar ... -man-squad Good blend of youth /experience and local / non-local. Still think they are top five, even with the points deduction. Surely we must be due a win against them sometime soon, though? They finished below us in SL, but demolished us in all three games that season.

If we win Friday it will be a new addition





A 1 point win will do me !

A one point win would definitly delight this party, Snowy, and he'd look forward to your tag on when you next post. It hasn't changed for too many years but, after last night catching up with the near miss at HKR and seeing a great TEAM effort (well done JD), let's watch your space. Errrm, so to speak.

Snowy those results in your messages are over 5 years ago, so you need to update all your losses since then to be up to date. May aswell put the 1980s results up.

Word of warning, York sustained 6 injuries last Saturday on that plastic pitch, so we could be depleted for the game on Monday against a resurgent Dewsbury.

We didn't win many in the 8’s either

Fair one Snowy mate.

As I said, I'm not overly concerned win or lose. Two quick games in quick succession with no depth in squad is reality. Not sure how you pick that up as being a stupid statement. I'd rather have 2 points out of the weekend than none.

Thats dependant on all other results going in their favour, along with winning their other fixtures.

Although they may possibly reach 5th as the playoffs are top 5 not 4.

Widnes have a squad full of youngsters and not many experienced players due to administration. All season tickets have been paid beforehand and Widnes are not going to spend on loan players. To be honest I will be happy to come mid table, and I feel we will end up about 7th or 8th in the table. So we are no threat to your top 5 hopes as a few more injuries we are at bare bones.

That's the stark reality for most of us in the Championship. Without our D/R or loan players, we are also at bare bones. That said, arguably our best two performances (both in the Challenge Cup) have been when we have been in that situation. We've been very lucky with injuries up to now - touch wood that continues to be the case!

Looks like another away loss, Josh Woods is a passenger, do they train him at Wigan to lob up last tackle kicks to opposition wingers?

No good beating bottom 4 teams home & away, we fold against anybody decent.

Frustrating.

Well beaten by the better team. We didn't seem to be able to maintain any pressure on their line, chucking away possession when well placed. Still, in my opinion, they are better than us, and you can't really argue with the outcome. Roll on Monday, and a chance to make amends.

Good following from your lot. I’d say that stand you were in which holds 2500 was around half full, probably a little more.

It must be frustrating with the DR chopping and changing your squad week in, week out. Was expecting a defeat yesterday to be honest but our young lads did a really good job. 13 of the 17 were homegrown, they really are putting a shift in lately.

Was impressed with your young side. I still think you will make the top five. Apart from the ten minutes when we scored our tries, you were pretty much in control.

Has your pitch been re-laid? It looked a lot better than when I was last there.

Felt we played too conservatively yesterday , we needed to offload more , we just couldn't get near enough to their line enough times to build any pressure

Yes, it was re-laid in the off-season.

They've also used green crumb, rather than the cheaper black, and it looks better imo.

Felt like there was a lot of 1 up rugby from Leigh and on the few occasions you tried to throw the ball out, you looked to break.

Liam Hood has an off day because I think when he ticks, as you know, he can be class.

Great day and obviously the wrong result for Leigh but we’re looking forward to the return fixture and good to have this proper rugby league derby back.

we was second best overall.
our bench had little impact, we got caught ball in hand on the 6th a couple of times, our kicking game was poor why did we persist with high balls straight into the hands of the opposition on a dreadful plastic pitch,couple of calls went agin us which we still should have defended.
not a lot we can do with personnel but surely we might try some other tactics

Cannot complain about the result - we were well beaten by a better team on the day.
We can however complain about the filthy state of the seating in the East Stand. We were sitting just left of the posts (as viewed from behind the sticks) and all of the seats around us were coated in a disgusting brown scum that was instantly transferred onto peoples clothing. The backs of the seats were equally as bad as the seats themselves.
What kind of welcome is that for the best visiting support Widnes are likely to see this season (with possible exception of Bradford).

Summer bash first before the return fixture.. Hopefully see you there...

Great away following and good to have this rivalry and fixture again. Looking forward to the Summer bash from my holidays in Crete, which I hope I will find on a TV. Be interesting how the season goes, as still some catching up for Widnes and now off the bottom due to points difference.

Well as I have said before, Widnes really are our bogey team, as they have now lost to York and a Dewsbury. How is it they can get up to comfortably beat us, yet lose at home to a side that had lost 7 out of 10 before today? Fortunately they are now 12 points behind us, but they can still hinder our top 5 chances if they beat us twice more this season.

Dewsbury were beating Toronto 17-4 earlier this season....but maybe they prefer plastic pitches to us !

Possibly the game before the Widnes fixture took its toll!