Well done to all at Widnes, it will great to see one of the great names of the sport back in the top flight.

Absolutely brilliant news, you were shafted from the off in SL but now back where you belong. Here are some messages from our board, sure you will be heartened by pretty much universal approval. Congratulations. www.redvee.net/forums/showthread ... -to-Widnes

Absolutely brilliant news, you were shafted from the off in SL but now back where you belong. Here are some messages from our board, sure you will be heartened by pretty much universal approval. Congratulations. www.redvee.net/forums/showthread ... -to-Widnes

Great to hear the Chemics are coming back into Super League(should have been in from day 1.)Congratulations to all concerned.Look forward,hopefully,to the return of the Easter Monday derby.

ive got home early because im sensible haha so on behalf of everyone getting absolutely smashed tonight...thank you all very much. All of these messages mean a lot...bring on super league!!!

Again thanks to everyone for the support we've received, a family game and big respect to the rl fans community.

Nice one - be good to have you back, more beers in the bowling club

Thank you to all! Can't wait for next season. Today has been a brilliant day for the club and fans.

well done widnes to be honest it was always a two horse race between you and fax but with widnes having steve oconner on board you deserve it. get a decent team behind you for super league and your onto a winning tee. good luck and thats from a leigh fan!

Badwanger: Sculthorpe better than Hanley? Give over.
Paul Sculthorpe represented the dying embers of the skilful ball-playing loose-forward and/or stand-off now defunct in RL here. Before him there were at least several throughout the 30 years prior to SL's inception who were a class above him in those positions, and the necessary all-round skills to play in them.
Sculthorpe was a fine player in the "modern" version of RL here. Yet more so because of the size, power and speed fundamental to our laboured attempts to play the Aussies at their own game at international level.
Hanley was a one-off; a brilliantly gifted and powerful player of the sort you can only see once in a generation. If you're lucky.

Sculthorpe wasnt in the same universe as Ellery Hanley, never mind the same class!

robbierotten: Brough is the kind of stand-off (if your comparison is that of he and Sam Tomkins in this position) with the expert kicking game so important in modern RL. No doubt about that.
In recent years he has improved his all-round game to include an ability to make the occasional incisive break, and a degree of ball-handling that stands out more because of the demise of great exponents of this skill these past 16 years.
He is a very good player but only insofar as the requirements (less in number in my view than, say, 20/25 years ago) inherent to being a top player in modern RL. Of course, that's enough and I don't deny it.
However, Tomkins so much reminds me (when playing stand-off) of one of RL's all-time greats in my book. Someone who sadly passed away not too long ago at a relatively young age - David Topliss.
If Sam Tomkins can mature into being a player of similar overall ability, then he will wipe the floor with Danny Brough.

Congratulations Widnes, as has already been said, it's long overdue.

Welcome back!

Yep, belting news. A proper Rugby League club back where it belongs. Always had a soft spot for you guys. Delighted. Hopefully Fax will join you at the expense of Wakefield and Crusaders. Shame the Welsh appear untouchable though....

Well done Widnes.

Just dont forget your mates down here when you are in the lofty heights of SL and dont get the same dose of amnesia some Cas and HKR fans have when it comes to attitude towards clubs in the Championship

Show SL what a club from the Championship can do and fly the flag for us poor forgotten souls

What a good sport, thanks.

It is really nice to see so many magnanimous comments about the success of Widnes Vikings on their return to Super League.

Steve O"Connor has done all the things that needed to be done to ensure not only our return but for us to stay there, and I hope that those other aspiring clubs whose fans are part of the great family of Rugby League follow his example, and we see a great competition for places in SL in the future.

Even those clubs who are under threat have been generous with their comments [other than the odd ones who have made some DIRE comments.