It was a bit of a stalemate down the middle that I think only turned once we reintroduced Hill, Taylor and Thornley towards the end. I certainly thought we went down the middle far too much in the first half instead of swinging the ball out a bit - the one chance Nanyn had within 10m of the line ended in a try, yet we kept trying the Ellis-Riddy-Donlan move that Widnes had done well to snuff out.

Went up Leigh for a drink after the game and was disappointed to see several Leigh fans who would ordinarily be at the Stobart today yet for some reason chose a day in the pub watching some football friendly from Wembley instead. Their loss I suppose.

Good effort from the lads today and I think we were a decent scrum half away from winning that. Thought the ref was very poor, although saying that, his very skinny 10, ignoring of offside and his allowing both sides to lie on more than I've seen any other ref do this year probably helped us as it made it a slower game and helped stop Leigh getting the roll on that has destroyed us twice at their place. He also seemed reluctant to call held when players were obviously held up which means other players have to join the tackle which is, quite frankly, dangerous.

It was our lack of invention in attack that ultimately cost us that game. I'Anson is not a scrum half, his kicking game isn't good enough and we rely far too much on forwards up the middle. Why do we actually have wingers?? Penny resorts to coming in to drive the ball in, probably because he's bored. Kevin Penny should not be driving the ball in at forwards! We have times where it's crying out for a wide ball, but players seem to have forgotten how to pass. Quite simply, Leigh look better coached and Millward can change the game a bit at half time where Betts cannot. Effort and determination is there for all to see. We need a better game plan which has more variety in it.

Glad someone else noticed that, though I would say we didn't slow things down anywhere near enough in the first half, which was why we gave away a string of penalties in a couple of sets. Our discipline was absolutely criminal at times which isn't usually one of our traits.


In all fairness, if Penny manages to make a break in centre field (which he did threaten to do on a couple of occasions) then there's no bugger who's going to catch him. If he's going to make a quick play the ball then you need a similar scoot from dummy half though and I'm not sure you've anyone capable of doing that at the speed that Penny manages it.

"Madens Gash" He mustve had that pinned up over his bed all week.

Not wrong Cog lad, thought he was class today. In fact, our entire back line was.

Madden didn't do too bad did he , setting up the Ellis try , Also did you notice him in the 1st half , from a break in play he moved into AHB twice then took the 3 rd ball , giving a rest to forwards and Duffy at 9 , then 2 PTB s later Leigh lose the ball , you lot send it wide and Steve came back in with a try stopper of a tackle

More to wing play than just being fast if given space , his yard making early in the set is fantastic for us

Everybody works in this team of ours , that's why we are so hard to beat

Then you see the likes of D Allen coming back on the pitch when Leigh were building up a head of steam with 15/20 left , I counted 4 sets that he didn't take a single ball up for you lot as our defence was very aggressive chasing the game , no heart , no chance

The best player you had was Varks , the only forward who troubled us

Varkulis absolutely mullered Duffs a couple of times, but I think Crosby (BOOOOO) went well in his first stint as well and Pickersgill takes up a lot of ball.

Coming to something when I agree with Matt and Starbug.

Just a couple of kids who talk sense once in a while.

Leigh take nothing from that bar refs wages! Beat us by 6 on that penalty / forward pass count??? Oh buddy you've got it coming to you later on in play offs! Big time!

also hill had a try disallowed roby in the wrong positioned to see him ground it

CHARLIE KNEW



Frank B says i know nothing about rugby

, thought my mate Varks had a really good game for you lot ,give him a SL contract .

I have said on another thread the ref was the same for both sides and Leigh's commentators seem to agree with me. You can judge for yourself by watching it blip.tv/fred-parkinson/widnes-vi ... ns-5448916 but I did think Widnes have improved enormously since last time we met.

I have said on another thread the ref was the same for both sides and Leigh's commentators seem to agree with me. You can judge for yourself by watching it blip.tv/fred-parkinson/widnes-vi ... ns-5448916 but I did think Widnes have improved enormously since last time we met.

Fixed with Varks mate.How much bet?I was close with result aswell.

But we won Andy

, again

Only got the crowd wrong because of the tax man !!

It would be great to see Richard get a SL contract the lad deserves it , a great bloke , havent seen him since our win over you , hope to see him later this week, i won a fewquid on the Game though , youlot are getting better though , we need you to beat Fev though.

Didn't get to go to the match but I must say Roby has been a very decent referee in the previous games we've had him so although I can't comment on this game I don't think we should start painting him as a terrible referee just yet.

You can watch it on Blip TV Chris if you wish, the links on our site.

Cheers Ian. Was expecting a higher gap so I'm not overly disappointed and may catch it.

At the end of the day, Leigh won, but 4 points is a score which could have gone either way and it's no surprise from me that we're getting a lot of gloating about what is not a gap of any significance.

Most is just banter mate.

I know. To be fair I'll miss it with you and the faxers. Once we get in super league it's the band waggoners and the holier than thou. Mind you starbug is certainly that last one!

Dont know who told you this buts its true Mate , i spoke to Varks this morning Wednesday , and he told me he HASNT been offered a SL contract as of yet .

Tell him Cuffy wants him signed up.Keep it up for the Widnes fans.