I agree it's one of the toughest but we played pretty much one man rugby all night. Still a wins a win and a huge improvement on effort and desire must be made for next week.

I'd agree with scallywags...

I thought it was a decent performance considering they are such a tough team to beat.. they look like a big side and play no nonsense rugby.

I'd say Webster has been good this year. He's obviously not as young as he was at Hull Kr but he's still got a good rugby brain and it's no coincidence that we have started to perform better since Cull gave him the job of organising us around the park.

Fax will be difficult but that is a big feather in our cap tonight. Well done to them and well done to the travelling fans..

also... how funny was the commentary..


peeekersgeeel, keveen pauny, dean gaskeeeel.

Hats off to Dodd for turning us around big style as well. didn't let his head drop and his kick showed great awareness.... or jamminess.. but I'm going for awareness

Wish I'd gone now.

What a game! I don't care how scrappy it was, we've won! Great winning try by Penny set up by Dodd. Had his goal kicking boots on, which had he not we could have lost to be fair. Pity about his catching today.

Penny's try in the last minute of the first half was magic. Very well taken. I thought we'd lost out mid way through the second when they went 8 points up and were taking it to us but we stood firm, got a few lucky handling errors go our way and romped home.

Massively chuffed by that one because I thought we'd lose and we just haven't.

TBF if i had been there my garlic and french stick would have found the back of doddys head. Can never knock his effort but he's awful at catching sometimes.


I still love him though.

I think in your OP you are underestimating the heat there! To come away with a win is massive, you will remember our last away match vs Toulouse!

I agree about Doddy. Really like the guy but wasn't a great full back performance. A few decent runs though.

The reason we played so much 1 man stuff is that they were tough to break down. No point forcing the play until they're on the back foot.. That final 15 minute spell we started to dominate in attack and we were able to throw the ball about more..

Home turf next week will give the team a big lift after 3 tough games on the road. They've got 5 days to recover and get fit for next week. It's going to take a massive effort but 'fax are coming off the back of another loss and a run of poor form.

In fairness to Dodd though, he's been great at full back recently and hasn't made any howlers. It's true about that heat though, it would have took plenty out of the players so to finish like that is a credit to them.

Thumbs up to French TV as well, cracking picture and coverage that!

Absolutely brilliant coverage. Gratituous shots of Widnes fans having "beaucoup de jolier", they seemed to like us.

Does Penny ever tire

He's a machine, he should be in the next Terminator film.

3.....Penny 1st half, Gannon and Varkulis 2nd half, Decent game by Doran and my MOM

Oh yeah forgot about the Gannon one, much improved over recent months is Lee.

He was also on hand should Gannon get the ball back out again. Good to see him become the player we all knew he could be.

His pass to Penny was very good and very well disguised.

Did the HKR lads play well?

Gannon was really solid and scored a good try.

Webbo was busy without being great as such

Morrison was quiet on the whole but did some punishing defence.

Thanks for that mate, the little magician does so much work off the ball he really gee's up the team. Anyway well done on a good win.

Of your ex players I think Morrisson is the one the fans appreciate the most.

Is there a reply of the game on the Internet does anyone know??

Maybe so, but Webbo is part of the Craven Park folklore.

Unfortunately for us, that season still sticks in my mind. He was terrific.

Unlikely, I tried to do this with a previous game and it didn't work.

Forgive me as I've seen little of Widnes compared to the majority this year, but I think Webster is still really good. I think we could have signed Sean Long and he'd still suffer abuse because of the Widnes affinity with scrum-halves!

I think people expect too much of Webster but for half an hour of the 2nd half he was operating at hooker, with Hartley at scrum half. He's proven his worth many times over this season since the team has got it's act together. He's a class act and I'd have him over any other scrum half we've had since David Hulme.