Red card for a bit of biff? I think you'd be better trying another sport, like curling or something.

I think i might have to drag the sour grapes out for you pal.

Jesus you lot have an answer for everything.

Its all about comparisons. I have seen players sent off loads of times for what Gannon did. At the end of the day, red card, yellow card or no card (as in Braceks case) Gannon should be on a charge. The RFL have been very inconsistent with their citing on this game. The RFL have missed 1 or 2 other players who are lucky not to be on a charge and I am not just reffering to Widnes players.

Well done Terry O'connor www.barrowrlfc.com/barrow_rugby_ ... newsID=510

Well done Terry O'connor www.barrowrlfc.com/barrow_rugby_ ... newsID=510

Erm no mate, that will be you lot forever going on about missing out last time round.

Quote ="-VIKINGMAN-"Well done Terry O'connor www.barrowrlfc.com/barrow_rugby_ ... newsID=510 '" Give the lad a chance. If he wasn't happy then he wouldn't have been playing well. I'll reserve my judgement until I have seen him play.

Quote ="-VIKINGMAN-"Well done Terry O'connor www.barrowrlfc.com/barrow_rugby_ ... newsID=510 '" Give the lad a chance. If he wasn't happy then he wouldn't have been playing well. I'll reserve my judgement until I have seen him play.

So what happened at Saints and Quins then?

I don't know

Please tell me oh Mighty Rugby League Guru

Everytime he came onto the pitch, no matter which team he played for, they got worse.

Good riddance to yet more bad rubbish.

Bracek is lucky that he isn't on a charge for running in as well.

You have to be incredibly naive to think that Gannon (who has a decent disciplinary record) is in the scrum one minute and then just decides to throw a couple of punches..
Something goes on between Gannon and McDermott so there is room for it to be argued that Gannon retaliates.. The referee got it completely right to send both players off for 10 minutes to calm down rather than ruining the game.
You do seem to have Barrow tainted spectacles on to think that Gannon just wades in without any provocation.

As others have said on here the Barrow tactic was the same tactic you used up at Craven park which was to try and rough-house us from the off.. Your coach got it completely and utterly wrong and knackered you for the rest of the game.. The major difference this time is that we have a pack that can deal with that now and both you and your coach seriously sound whingy for complaining when the opposing team stands up for itself.

If you have a problem with the RFL's decision then appeal and take it through the correct process rather than crying in the papers about how hard done to you were.. if you want to play rough.. we'll play rough.. if you want to play classy.. we'll match you at that too..

To be honest I thought he was getting a bit better just before he left and definately had a hard time due to him being one of our main props whilst we had the injury crisis early on in the season. We also weren't training together as a team at the time so that could be used in his defence also.

Now that this is the case you can see how much some of the players have improved!

He does have a tendency to give away daft balls with silly penalties or knock ons but he is young and could go on to develop..

Am I gutted to see him go.. not really and it doesn't bother me that he has gone to Barrow.. good luck to them and him.




Interestingly enough.. how much money do these guys have to spend?? Rooney and now Thompson and Devious Des is talking about more coming in.. haven't seen much in the way of other players leaving either??

quite simple really sunbed sam is now on his 4th club in less than 12 months..........................does that not tell you something???

Sadly for Sam, never really worked out for him here, hopefully the new challenge can revitalise him and help him push on. Good luck mate.

I'm glad that Thompson has left, I'm even more pleased that he's joined one of our rivals.

If Widnes players never got the better of Barrow players physically, as you posted on Total RL, then you deserve what you got.

The Barrow coach,whatever his name is,failed to do his homework on us properly and used the wrong tac tics.He thought our pack was a soft touch just like back in May when they won at our place but we have moved on since then and he must have failed to see it.A wiser approach would have been to play us at football .

Sod em, they tried to take heads off and failed dismally, We are original cup kings, first official club champions of the world, last club side to beat Australia, Reigning European and NRC champions, oh and not to miss off the James Edwards trophy thingy at xmas.

Barrow come out at Blackpool the intention of bullying Widnes and intimidating them out of the game. This is fair enough and it worked on our previous two meetings.

This time they were handed their ar5es back on a plate and now have players facing the rod of the RFL.

If you are going to use these tactics, you need to be clever and , more importantly, tougher than the opposition. They were neither.

Tough 5hit. Barra fans need to deal with it, instead of crying on here at Widnes fans about how unfair it all is.



Personally I couldn't give a shiny 5hite.

I was meaning within the laws of the game. Cheap shots don't count.

Give it a rest for gods sake, your like a broken record.

like mcdermott taking smith out late in the first set of 6 of the game you mean?

you live by the sword you die by it.

Exactly. That's what he just doesn't get. They got what they deserved.