I was expecting more from Mellor when Leigh played you. Heard a lot about him and have been repeatedly told how great he is/will be but he just kept trying to break through on his own and seemed reluctant to pass. Had no real impact on the game and had little impact again tonight. I think the claim of 'the next sam tomkins' (from a w*gan fan, not a widnes fan) may have been a little optimistic

Kevin Penny is sh[ii[/it. Anonymous all game, again, until the last minute when he has a good chance to win the game or at least go close and he bottles it. You're a fookin' winger lad, use your line and run. He had all the space down the line and on the inside to run at White and yet he chips the ball back to him to finish the game. The sooner he disappears the better. Useless.

He wasn't alone tonight though, it was harder to pick anyone who did go well. Paddy Flynn and Hulme went well and Tyrer played well. Scored a couple of cracking tries, especially the Mellor one just before half time.

We scored two of our best expansive tries this season against a very good Halifax team due to the fact James Coyle was the first receiver and spread it wide to Mellor straight away who then put in Tyrer and Flynn. What do you know we made a break and Mellor scored. I do wonder whether or not Ianson would of put a kick/bomb up in that situation but we have been looking for better play options all season and we were provided with them twice tonight.

Yeah we didn't play well for the last 20 minutes, we weren't clinical enough (something we have been lacking since 2007) but I doubt it was James Coyles fault we lost the game.

Please explain how Jack Owens a fullback is better than James Coyle a scum half?

good luck in super league but penny should have won the can 4 you lot and him self.to be honest i think if we meet in the play offs we will win at your place as we had black,penky,goddard,barlow,gannon,missing tonight from our 17

Yea I don't quite get that. People crying out for more expansive rugby, we chance one half back and suddenly ball flowing about and we score a great last tackle run play etc yet he's to blame for narrow loss?

Kevin made two big mistakes last night that put the game beyond Widnes. The kick through from Fax which he palmed forwrd, to me was going out on the full and the the kick from a fantastic attacking position was terrible. Another player who has gone to Widnes with high hopes from the fans and is doing nothing. Those mistakes and a penalty prone pack lost you the game.

Wow their really is a lot of people put their who want Penny to fail. Yea he made 2 quite big errors but the lad pretty much won us the game against Batley with two magic moments!

for me penny had chance to be a hero either backing himself or passing to tyrer right at the end but thats not what cost us and im affraid to say its the lads who have contracts who are letting us down theyve taken there foot off the pedal now the pressure is off and the lads who are still fighting ( varkulis tyrer hulme and the duel reg lads ) are pulling it out the bag when ever they get a chance to do somthing.too many penalties from are so called sl members have cost us in 2 games in a row now

Dropping the ball that was kicked quite hard at him in that rain, was hardly a big mistake. He had a few milliseconds to decide whether to get out of the way, or try to catch it and made the wrong choice.

The stupid penalties was what cost us the game.

I'm also not so sure about the way we use substitutes, for example, I think we're a much better side with Tomkins fast distribution away from the ruck. We've lost the last two games in the last ten minutes when I don't believe we have our best team on the pitch.

If you look at the U18s team Owens has been playing at halfback.Not just Coyles fault as I said James Coyle not good enough for Widnes.Penalties and discipline t main problems to lost.

And last night he had another massive chance to win the game and blew it. He's a winger, full of pace and had a great chance to back himself and run at White but he decided to put in a shocking kick. Back himself a little bit more and he could've took White and won the game. I just don't think he's good enough, he makes so many poor decisions.

Totally disagree in regards to Mellor. I thought he was one of Widnes's best last night. He set up the first try and scored two of his own through great support play. His kicking game was also very good last night, the number times he got the ball to stop on a sixpence at Fax's end was superb. Plus it's the little things that make the difference, the number of times Mellor rescued Widnes by getting to Halfax's grubber kicks first tuck to some real effort and ability to read the play.

It was Widnes's sloppy discipline that cost them the game. The penalty count must have been 10 - 3 or thereabouts in Fax's favor.

I wouldn't point the blame on the defeat at Mellor, I just don't think he offers much. Good pass for the first try though.

Penny neither, wasn't his best game but I like his enthusiasm.

Agreed with the poster about Tyrer and Flynn, both played very well and I hope we see Tyrer in Super League.

You have to look at the forwards yesterday for me. We dominated Fax for an hour despite our indiscipline and then they shut up shop when they thought they had the game won. Rather had they been looking to punch it up the middle and going for that killer try then we would be sitting pretty today. Instead, it seemed as though they were happy for Flynn, Penny et al to cart it up out of our 20 which gave Fax the edge.

OH and FWIW, please cull the calls for expansive rugby. I was very impressed with our tries last night, they showed what we can do when the time is right. The most effective rugby is four / five drives and a kick. Now and again a fifth play hands / double wedge move.

And you think having those guys available will aid you?






Barlow - a thug and a penalty machine. Gannon - past it, hence why hes not with us anymore

and Black - shats himself and drops the ball with the line begging when it really matters

Enthusiam gets you nowhere if you're BLANK.

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Not always.

Eddie "the eagle" Edwards.

Nice man, you do your club credit.

Were you the one on leaving who said "At least we won't have to play in this sh*thouse again?"

Or didn't they let you out for the night.

Where did it get him?

The biggest name in the 1988 winter olympics. A film is about to be made about him starring a main Harry Potter actor. He earned £10,000 an hour for various adverts (yes, he did eventually lose it all). His name is more recognised in Britain than ANY Rugby League player.

So there you go. Enthusiasm and crapness. It does happen. It got him somewhere.

And he gets to see every home game at Sheffield.

Eagles, Eagles,

Eddie the Eagles,

It got him nowhere, he came into the Olympics a supposed sportsman and he left a laughing stock. So basically it got him a film made about him for being so crap, so he earned a few grand for adverts about him because he was crap and people know his name because he was crap not for achieving anything. So what if more people know his name than any rugby league player, it doesn't mean he's achived more. He was a supposed Olympic athlete - he acheived nothing in his sport - he didn't, imo, achieve anything.

Lighten up, t's a joke.

Anybody willing to chuck themselves down one of those ramps with 2 planks tied to their feet deserves a shed load of respect , IMO

it called a bit of banter. no need to fill your breaches. Anyway, what exactly is inaccurate in my post? nothing, so cool it.
and no i didnt say "at least we won't have to play in this ****house again"
firstly, i wasnt there. Secondly, The Shay is not a ****hole and only an imbecile would say it is.
Nice reaction to my post man, you do your club credit.

Bit of banter, no need to fill your breaches!