Commiserations to you guys today and well done for making it a great spectacle for the neutral. I was delighted for Batley being the underdogs but Widnes deserve credit when considering the season of injuries that they have had, perhaps similar to our own at Halifax. Not everyone has a downer on Widnes Mr Dalton, it just wasnt your day today, but im sure you will have much to smile about come the franchises.

Good Luck for the rest of the season, except when you play Fax!

Yeah hard luck widnes.You lost it yourselves esp when tempers got heated and mark smith got upset.Would play Kirk N every time instead of smith.

i can't believe the ammount of ball we coughed up in the second half, and then there was the 5min ping pong ball period in which both teams coughed one ofter the other. congrats to batley, they never stopped all game and contributed to great match. i can't fault our guys effort all afternoon but somethings just didn't go for us, and as soon as we lost coyle i felt it was all back on thacks shoulders.

on to the clown, i thought he made at least 2 disasterous (well against us anyway). first was the knock-on/incorrect ptb that led to their second try, how in the hell did he come to the conclusion that it was interferance? it was clear as day there was no such thing - let alone the replays to confirm it. and the second howler was the pen awarded just before h/t. at worst he lost the ball in the tacke and at best he attempted an offload (being very generous there). those 2 decisions cost us 8 points and may have put the match in a different direction - who knows. i mean i'm not taking anything away from batley, but this boy is just not up to scratch for this level - let alone sl.

first of well done Batley, they deserved it in the end and they're a great club.

ball retention from us was shocking and in the end batley made us pay, credit to our fans who sang all the way through.

gutted, currently sat pigging out on some chocolate cake and magners.

the joys of being a widnes fan!

Oh aye. Joys.

Like I've said elsewhere, if we had to lose to anyone, I'm glad it was Batley. But there does seem to be an awful lot of sad fans who are more delighted we've lost than Batley won.

we get stick from pretty much all other championship clubs, they all want us to get beat and fail.

im as flat as a pancake at the mo, couldnt really give a stuff about leigh next week tbh.

They've had the gall to moan about the referee on the fax site. How one eyed can you get? Complaining about a high shot from a widnes player. What about Coyle getting his head took off and nothing being done about it? I'm not blaming the ref, we lost that game, but how can anyone suggest we got the rub of the green? There were several bad decisions which went against us. I thought the referee was absolutely terrible.

I think Gardner lost us the match by not keeping the ball wrapped up . We didn't play conservative rugby when it counted. I'm so annoyed.

But well done Batley, you've earned it and hope you have a good one celebrating this.

That time of the year already?

p[ii[/iss off

I didn't see that. To be honest i was only looking for the Widnes trangressions. I spat my chips out at every Widnes high shot and forward pass. I felt very deflated when Widnes came back to take the lead but was overjoyed at the final outcome. I'm looking forward to the 29th July

First of all...congratulations to Batley and their fans.

Secondly... I wouldn't expect anything else from some other sets of fans...
They are getting ready to lose us to the higher echelons and are revelling while they can. Also it's a nice distraction
from their own woes.

As for the referee... he is a complete prat... how he gave interference in the build up to Batley's second try I will never know when the player threw the ball between his legs. Then missing another player trying to take Coyle's head off.
The guy is a shambles...
We cost ourselves the game but he is a prat nonetheless.

I think it's a bit unfair solely blaming Gardner Dalto. In the madcap last 20 minutes any one of a number of players dropped the ball.
As for today. Thank God for the Win last year. Can you imagine the feeling if we had lost today having lost that one as well.

Had you lost last year you'd have had a completely different squad this year. You'd have had a Championship winning squad.

Like yours littlerich?

Sorry i had to, gutted and that put a smile on my face.
Wonder how we'll now do in the play offs...if we get there

Like ours? Pfffft. No chance. Super League isn't in our sights, not even with a Hubble telescope.

nothing bad about the tackle on coyle, it was a stray finger that poked him in the eye,,

thought Hicks was ok, Consistent at least

After the Gerrard try it seemed Widnes minds were on lifting the trophy and not seeing out the last 15 mins

Credit to Batley they never gave in and showed why West Yorkshire is the home of RL!

Well I watched it unbiased and I thought the refs bad decisions evened out.

Was very impressedwith one of your props (Ben Davies ?) and Thackery first half where did Thackery go after HT ?

I know you are gutted I always am when my team loses. Ah well if it is any consolation I lost a couple of quid at the bookies.

See you Sunday.

We threw the game away ourselves. We have no excuse; the ref included. Loose carries and knock-ons killed us. Batley fought until the end – God bless ‘em!

Personally I thought Smith should have stayed on when we were bossing the game in the early part of the second half. After he went off we went to pieces. But Batley deserved their win, they played the smarter. Regardless of the result, I'm positive today was a good one for our SL prospects...

I hope your team feels this way too VM, from a purely selfish point of view.

I must say I enjoyed the game today but everyone is right way too many spilled passes and dropped possession. Some of that credit has to go to Batley for the way they tackled and stifled Widnes. They did the same to Leigh in the semi. I expected more of Widnes to be honest.

It's hard losing in a final but at least you got there eh?... chins up and let the banter begin for next week.

I couldn't understand that either. Smith was scaring the heebeegeebies out of Batley with his runs from dummy half and he has to do this more because that was more like the old Mark Smith rather than the passer that I have been seeing over the last couple of seasons.

Handforth is the best halfback in our competitions. He is one smart cookie and can run a game while Gareth Moore isn't bad either.

I was embarrassed when it was announced that Thackeray got the Man-of-the-Match. I thought Handforth and Johnny Campbell were really good for Batley while as my fellow Leyther Frank mentioned Ben Davies was your best.

Not Bazza, Tezza, William and Eddie, they were totally gutted, in fact Tezza sounded like he may need some sort of help after the game. He could hardly speak. Eddies comment at HT about is this as good as it gets for Batley was a classic, like Batley had played their cup final and it was all down hill from here against the `mighty` Vikings.
Good game though, it had everything and the best team won. The neutrals will be happy.

Aye but tbf Tezza is a Widnes lad and works for the club... maybe not the best idea to have him on the show afterwards really! Could see him with hands on head in SKY box after there last score... I think they stayed on for the rest of the game too!

Commiserations guys, just keep plugging away though, hopefully you'll be back where you belong very soon.