Ive just got home from the match now, halifax to ispwich is a long way lol.
shocking performance tonight, when is the club going to start moving forward on the pitch. They had their first big test of the season and failed with flying colours. gifted halifax 12 points with two soft tries, kicked the ball out on the full on kick off. just shocking all round, if halifax where more match fit the defeat would have been bigger the bombed so many chances. widnes had so many sets of six camped on the try line but could'nt get over, the attacking play was poor. One man rugby does not work, when the ball got wide it was too slow. inside balls to gannon will not do anything he was never going to break the line or power over from short range. Widnes need to have a good look at themselves and sort it out..
I actually went the game instead of sitting at home watchin it on sky i think i made the wrong decision. 50 quid in petrol 14 quid to get in and 9 hours drivin time... money down the drain. My last thought is how bad the ref was on both sides some really bad decisions..

Comments please....

a third of them players have no pride. the next third just lack any brains and the last third are the good players carrying the rest of the team.

Had a fair bit of money on you winning tonight. I really fancied you to turn a very good Halifax side over but you just did not turn up. Good luck for the rest of the year.

it wasnt cause you had bad attacking options it was just our dafence had its best game i have seen for a while.

it was good defence as well as poor options.

Shambles my . Hard game, never got into our stride really, but these things happen. Good Fax team, but they do look beatable... we need more upfront though. Stop all this 'no pride' nonsense, otherwise its going to be a loooong season.

we are always beatable but the way we play that is always going to be the case

the defence was the best aspect of our game tonight

the attack there were a lot of mistakes like every other week but we will get better.

cullen factor

I won't call you mate for driving 9 hours. That is a good effort, especially on a Thursday night.

what a difference a week makes , not so many cocky threads this week chaps

You Sir are a prize !!!!

OK squire, if you say so.

Fax's defence was superb, we have no big players to barge through

Thats the biggest load of bull I've read on here in a long time.. Get off this site.

Sorry, think you must have the wrong forum, most of us predicted a defeat you moron. 0/10.

Get off the glue !!!!!!

Nobody was getting cocky and there was good banta between us and fax in the run up to the game.

We all said it would be a close game and it was.

Another glue addict

you read bull. i went to watch it yesterday at the shay.

the game was there for the taking and maybe in a few weeks time under cullen also with a few more players back we will be winning these games. that thread i written was out of frustration because we keep seeing deja vu performances this season.

Did you not see their defence ??

So these few players are going to cover for/replace the 2 3rds of the squad you claim is not good enough? You need to get off the glue lad.

Game was there for the taking? True. Unfortunately, Fax were superb in defence and we couldn't barge over. Fax look the best team in this leage and it's time some Widnes fans realised that.

Mind you, I am optimistic things will improve for the return fixture.

I think some fans believe we have the god given right to dominate every team in this league and each time we lose they're deemed not good enough, lacking pride, clueless etc etc.... We've still a long way to go before we gel properly.

I'm with you on this one.

People just expect other teams to roll over because Widnes are in town.

People need to get real with their expectations.

We lost to a very good team (probably the best in this division) away from home and, as manxviking says but for excellent defence we could have nicked it without really deserving it.

We will improve and I think we will improve more than other teams. Don't forget, we don't have to finish top to get to the Grand Final although it would be nice.

Yet we played some very decent stuff in that second half, and more to the point, it was obvious we were trying to get around their forwards by playing wider. Trouble is, like at Haven, that doesn't work so well on a postage stamp.

Still, I'd like to see a bit more power in the front row.

We have no right to win anything in this league - the salary cap has seen to that.