Good result that, Widnes have invested pretty heavily in the academy as a big box ticker for their SL application.

Tony has said they are sore! He commented on twitter it was like playing at the barn.

Was told it was 44-18!

Looking forward to the game and a long awaited trip to back to your gaffe (though Hudds was are usual stopping / changing point for away games in the champ).

Looking at the squads we shouldn't have a chance in hell really, but a lot said that about you guys last week I guess with a few out. All I can ask is that we turn up and give it 100% and hopefully play some decent stuff and who knows what can happen.

May the best side win

Totally agree. This is anyone's game imo, if we don't turn up with the same attitude as we did at the DW this could be a long afternoon for us. I think Widnes will win a fair few matches this season once they get going. I see they've been written off by a lot of people already after last week & it was only round one! Ridiculous.

A winnable fixture for either side this one, it just depends who applys themselves best, plays smarter & maybe gets a bit of luck too. Mind you, with Ganson on board anything could happen.

Great to see the Chemics back where they belong though. I'm looking forward to the match.

JOE WARDLE 40/1 for first try today with ladbrokes ...unless hes out injured this had got to be a mistake by them!

lump on

5/1 to score anytime too

they have just changed it to 16's !!! spotted there error now after my cash

Great performance. Was puzzled when Patrick and Lunt were left out but it didn't matter.

All again played well. Their try ewas a bit of a fluke, we were unlucky not to nil them and to win by 70 wouldn't have been out of the question given the chances we bombed and a couple of sympathetic decisions by Ganson.

Widnes were very poor. How much was us giving them too much to deal with is open to question.

had wadle for last try at 40/1 too..do i not like eden



good performance today, didnt expect to win by so much!

the new way of playing is certainly working, kev brown looked good at loose forward

well done to cudjoe and george on there 4 and 3 tries each! george looking very good

lunt and patrick missing today?? injured??

though eden made too many errors today...cant afford to be making those next week v warrington ..maybe murphy will be giving the chance... but maybe thats being harsh

up the giants

He made errors but he looks very lively indeed. Maybe nerves or trying too hard. He has quality though, no doubt.

Patrick had a virus & Tommy Lee got the nod ahead of Lunty. NB just clarified it on Radio Leeds.

bit of a surprise lee getting in ahead of lunt but lee was class today the way he sliced through there defence twice

Tommy Lee impressed IMO. Looks like he's lost a bit of timber and broke the line numerous times. NB knows what he wants from his hookers and to see where Scott Moore has gone since he thought he had made it and then look at Lunt, Robbo and also what Lee did today then he should rethink his comments about wanting to represent England! No chance!

Was a bit concerned when the rumours that Kev was to play at loose forward proved correct - but with a couple of rusty poor passes aside he played well. For me Grix was very good today also and our pivots and options were excellent. Well done to Leroy and Luke onn their 4 and 3 tries. Tommy Lee just gets better - what the hell is it with NB? He takes players that no one else wanted and gets them playing awesome RL. Can't wait to see how Tonks goes for us when he gets the chance!

Thought this one could have been a "banana skin" for us today - boy was I wrong!!!

Top of the. league and looking good.



Well done Giants - truly awesome performance - bring on the wire

NB said he chose Lee over Lunty as he could cover for Brown if he struggled. I was happy with every player today. Greg Eden is definitely one for the future, as mentioned above he may have tried a bit too hard resulting in a couple of mistakes.

I was speaking with former fartowner Paul Jackson who is now at Cas who rates Eden very highly. Said he's a bit "raw" but will be awesome.

Some difficult decisions for NB next week!

I wasn't really that impressed with Browny and if i'm honest i would have given him another couple of weeks as he didnt look up to speed - threw one or two wayward balls and seemed to almost get in the way of the halfbacks at time ...but i suppose match fitness comes with playing games.

Widnes were a very poor side i thought and needed some massive help from Ganson at times for it not to be a mammoth score, they created nothing and got a very lucky try in the end.

Thought Eden was very impressive again as was Fairbank, Crabtree led from the front with some good running and George and Leroy have shown today they will be a threat to most defenses this season.

Larne with a Virus???
Euphemism for disciplinary. He's gone out and bought a new alarm.

Maybe he rested him with an eye on the fact we have Wire next week and had Widnes today. Cover for if we lost and cover if we won.

Oh dear. Is he a heavy sleeper? Anyways, the rest will do him good.

Now that was an in impressive 80 mins to say the least , how much better can we get ?, wait till the 1st team turn up.

Saw lunty at the game he said his body wasn't quite up to it today!!! Despite that I think he was rested for nb ready for next week As he has only just recovered from injury- same for larne I suspect.

Hey thats what he said to me

kev Brown finished with his ankle strapped with ice again he said it was precautionary but still he was limping down the tunnel! Today was just too easy next week is the real test no offence to Widnes but they were quite clueless at times left us to dictate it too many times!

who's this greg eden character?.. never heard him mentioned before

Widens we're appalling yesterday, it's going to be a long old season for them. Well done to all the fans that made it over.

Give him a couple of years he will be pure class, fantastic acceleration and enthusiasm, good support player and positionally sound and still only 21, will iron out the errors with more apps for the first team no doubt.

Thought we played brilliantly yesterday, we had our usual lapse for their try but with 20min remaining i was expecting us to do our usual foot off the gas and concede 2/3 tries so that was quite pleasing. Big test next week against Wire.