aye, happen!!



We haven't beaten Toulouse yet eh???



One hurdle at a time!





I'm lovin it for the mo tho!! I've seen enough of the cak days - it's nice to have a bowl of the good stuff for a change!

Enough Zappa for now - now it's the Stone roses - I love Bank Holidays since I took the community role on! Sod shifts at the Happy factory.

We get this attitude every time we win a game – every time, every season!

There’s just the one fan on here who has said this about Fev, and he’s admitted to being bitter. I’ve seen far worse written about Widnes, by Fev fans, on their Total RL board.

You deserved your win and you’re the best team we’ve played so far. I was just happy that, despite a disjointed performance and a weak looking pack, we aren’t that far of the best in the league. When we get a few more bodies back we will be even better. Our youth are also looking good too. So I left the ground far from bitter.

Actually it as WVRL Matt that brought it up and Chris B who thought he may well have the point and agreed with most of what Matt had written, tho I accept this is only the opinions of 2 people! However, if written by 2 or 52, I have recourse to counter their comments, even if they are in a substantial minority and don't represent the majority of fans. - I don't accept the BNP. Even tho they are a minority I will speak against them - if this is a suitable analogy!

We're not used to being top Pepe!! It's been a while so when I read criticism, I'm quick to react, especially if I believe it's misplaced!

You shouldn't be bitter. I'm expecting Widnes to be in the mix at the end of the season.

As far as I could see, Chris was merely agreeing with WVRL Matt’s assumption that Fev are not a [i‘top of the table team’[/i. I didn’t see him back up his cheat allegations etc. That is purely a matter of opinion. We have played both Barrow and Halifax at home this season and both looked strong and skillful. The Championship is not decided in early May, so who is to say that either Chris or Matt are wrong to express that opinion?

I agree that the rest of Matt’s post was silly, and doesn’t show Widnes fans’s in the best light, but it seems that several of the Fev fans are now condemning Widnes fans on their Total RL board on just this one post. This is the problem with some messageboard users; they are completely unable to keep things in perspective.

I agree about the BNP. They are absolute scum, and really not worth bringing up in a conversation about RL.


I’m quite happy seeing Fev at the top. They are a great old club, like ours. I’d prefer that it was us up their, but that’s sport for you. Perhaps we are similar in the way we both react to perceived unfairness which is written on these boards, but we must keep things in perspective.


Like I said at the end of my last post- I walked away from that game far from being bitter.

I was frustrated at the end of the game but i have to pay respect to Fev on how they played under the circumstances. They controlled the speed of the game very well and the kicking game was better than ours. We spilled to much ball in key positions of the field and on the night the score was deserved for Fev. When we get some consistency player wise we'll be right.

Netherton was busy and i was angry that Toa didnt see more ball as he was to much to handle for the young Fev centre.

Big games coming up which we need to win though before we lose touch with Fev and Leigh.

i would have thought a win v leigh is a must or the top two will be all but out of touch.
However, as pepe pointed out, there's nowt for being top in may or even august.
All the final positions determines is the route through the play offs! By then, the widnes team could well be a lot more settled and consistency should have been addressed for a real go in the play offs.
Fev finished 6th last year and almost made it to the GF!

Too late for that. They're a far better prospect this year than Widnes or Fax that's for sure.

There's nothing bitter about my post Rob...
I think if you re-read it you will see that I agree with WVRL Matt on one issue which is that I thought Fev looked ordinary on Friday night. I certainly didn't agree with the cheating bit. I didn't comment on the rest of the season as I haven't otherwise seen you play.
On the back of your league position and in terms of where we are currently with our squad I was expecting to take a battering...
That didn't happen and an error strewn Widnes performance was nearly capable of taking the points.
In the past few seasons we have seen a few teams turn up with the wind in their sails and the difference with how they played compared to Fev is noticeable. Fax, Barrow, Cas, Hull Kr all played a lightning quick game with forwards that came to smash us wily halfbacks that broke our line repeatedly and I think if any of them had played against us on Friday night we would have taken the hammering I expected.
If you want to argue that you didn't look ordinary, that you looked a classy outfit and that your performance was comparable to any of the top teams from past seasons then please feel free. You need to to justify your bitter comment.

I would/couldn't justify that it was a champagne performance on friday - but nowhere have I done that!
Many of us predicted our first loss on friday and if you check my comments on the Totalrl site, you will see that I predicted a Widnes BP in a hard fought encounter - I added, Widnes have too many good players to be a poor team. For once, I called it correctly.

My angst was about the initial comment that we weren't a top of the table side and your agreement with that. Yes, on fridays performance we didn't pay the fluent stuff we've seen hitherto this season, but to base the comment on Friday's performance that dismissed what went off before is narrow minded and analytically poor in my opinion.

Like I asked in the post you quoted - what more would Fev have had to have done in their 8 games to be worthy of the 'derserved top of the league' comment???

Bitter?? My only bitterness is towards the RFL mate, not you, not widnes and certainly not your fans!! You don't know me, if you did - you would know that!

Time for a group hug folks

Just because your poo dont drag us with you Rich

I'm not really interested in what went before. You are only as good as your last game as the saying goes. Fax were fairly immense for most of last season but look what happened.
My agreement with Matt in part was that on that one performance you did not look like the amazing team that your results otherwise suggest. That is why I am on the Widnes board talking about the game involving Widnes and not on the Fev board talking about the season so far. I can talk about what I know and what I know is that you did not look a patch on teams that have gone before you to lead this division in that one game.
I can't discuss how you have been up to this point because I don't know and tbh don't really care. As I said you might have been playing like a touring Australian test side... I'm not sure, but on Friday we held you to a rather tepid 9 points despite a lacklustre performance from ourselves.

No one can argue that you aren't a top of the table team because you are top of the table... performance wise it just didn't seem like it on Friday night.



I wasn't calling you bitter mate.. I was referring to you calling me bitter about the loss. I do know you a little from these boards and I also know you from the Total RL site under your other guise.. you appear an alright lad........
When you're not gloating about nicking some of our best players that is..






I'm not having a dig at Fev... all the best to them. They've built a good side and are riding their crest. I look forward to travelling to Post Office road later on in the season.

We're bound together by a little thing called the league table. Hell, you've lost three at home! In fact, the only thing keeping your visors free of crap is the daft bonus point scheme, otherwise you'd have our poop tube in your mush.

Stockport Sid - over and out.

I love the bonus points because we are above Fax.

Serious some of our losses could have gone either way.If we did win then we be closer to fev.

Edited for accuracy

Ok i will go along with your edited version.

WVRL Matt is a young lad. Go easy.

Aye I was wasn't I?



Tho getting those two has put the last pieces of the jigsaw together, tho surprisingly for me it's been Johnny G that's really impressed. He's been outstanding tho Morro has done the graft week in week out!! I sort of thought it'd be the other way round.

Question:- Has the fact that widnes have already qualified to apply for a SL spot, affected their performance, recruitment etc for this season. - serious question, no wind up!!

Robin

It's cool for cats matey!!

Nope they,re just sheeeite

Oh really Bugman, the Leigh team of last year now thats sh[iiiiii[/ite and you should be playing in championship 1.

Lets see where we are come seasons end.



Yes i know i took the bait.

You wish

Everyone needs a little sister to take the mick out of and your ours.

Yes you were





No probs about the question.. it's a good one mate and we're probably in a position to answer it a bit better now...
Has it affected our season?? I suppose you would have to say that it has.. according to SOC and PC they haven't tried to compete in the open market for some players preferring to rely on the yoof in the academies and that certainly seems to be bearing some fruit. Fax, Barrow, Leigh and Fev have flexed their financial muscle this winter and I guess that shows in the league table. Having said that Fax went out and have tried to buy the league this year but aren't anywhere near as good as I'm sure they would have expected or hoped for.
We are doing far better than I feared at the start of the season and that fear seems to have been present in a number of fans.
I think that the major impact on the squad was the cut from £400k to £300k in the salary cap. We have definitely tried to trim the wage bill to fit under this.
I'm still very confident of the licence decision going our way in 2011 but that confidence is ebbing away slightly the nearer we get.

Quite right too, but thanks for the 6 points !