How much longer is Betts going to get?

I've seen enough now, we have some good players and we are certainly better than our league position suggests.

Wakefield were absolutely nothing special. I know people on here will say it was a close game.

But for me we cannot seem to do the basics well enough. I really do think that the coaching is lacking.

No doubt I will get stick for this post, but if we really are concerned about the possible restructuring of SL then we need to do something because at the moment I think we would be a good bet to miss out.

Betts has had long enough now. Our chief executive needs to start considering the clubs future, because if the worst happens he may find that, like others at the club, he wont have a future.

I agree entirely. It's all well and good comparing this team to last year but last year was dreadful. Until we get the ball to brown out wide we look clueless

Hock for me showed that he is class but for some reason every time he tries to make an offload and it doesn't come off

Leuaui hit again, huge legal or not its definitely something the fans like to see.

Poor again and another 2 points dropped from a team we should be targeting.

Iv said this along time about Betts, all the years including finishing 5th in the Championship have we really improved.

But you get the same Widnes fans saying its an improvement from last year, as long as there saying that Betts and the rest of the coaching staff are here to stay im afraid

Entitled to your opinion but knee jerk reactions should be reserved for the relaunch of TIW. We have improved, no matter how bad tonight was (and Leeds).

Missing Cross, Dean and Mellor badly. We are still a work in progress.

Sorry but your last sentence IMO is ridiculous. We can't stop saying that every time we get beat. We're in superleague and we've had 18/20 months to get ourselves up to a decent standard and get some consistent composure throughout. Can't see any of that

It's his post match reaction that gets me.."it was an improvement from last week so thats a positive"..is he for real?!! And then is nice and calm saying the players are trying very hard and we just need a few wins. I really hoped he would come out and say how bad we were and that we need to improve but no. It will be another "unlucky boys keep your heads up". We need someone who can get into the players when needs be. It's all too matey in the widnes camp..ok yes of course you want them all to get on etc. but in my opinion it all seems a bit 'too' soft. The players simply didn't have any enthusiasm whatsoever tonight and it was so disappointing to see. Wakey wanted it so much more. Yes they werent great either tonight and made mistakes too but they were eager and wanted to get the ball..we didn't. Lousy effort tonight and very very disappointing

We can as we are missing them. Like it or lump it, we as the newest team have arguably the least strength in depth so when we lose good players we feel it more than clubs who have been in the SL system for longer.

I think that the pre-match comments by the SKY presenters summed us up. "Widnes are at their best when they attack down the left hand side with Brown, Hock, Hanbury and Ah Van". What did Wakefield do, pack their defence on their right hand side. If that is the only way we can attack we need to start looking again at our tactics. Why did it take 65 minutes to give Gore a chance? Was Phelps injured?

Although it may be true that we have made progress from last season, when you start from such a low point as that, then it's pretty hard not to I think. A more relevant question IMO is how much progress have we made since we beat Hull early this season, or drew with Bradford with 12 men? Sorry to say that the answer is none at all. On the contrary, we have gone backwards , and by a long way, since those performances.

I'd agree with that Vinty. Would you say it's to do with our lack of strength to call upon?

Personally didn't think the Widnes players looked interested. You had an awful lot of ball but were very predictable in using your left hand side combination of Brown, Hock etc.

In previous games I've seen (limited) you've looked a much better side than I saw tonight. I think with the right mindset you could have quite easily won tonight. I think your pack needs definite improvement

Until we put in some kind of defence we will not win these games. You can now list 6 games were we should have won but because the defence is all over the place we have lost or drawn. If Betts can't see this well he is in the wrong job.

I would agree that the squad is nowhere near strong enough, but we've had worse teams out this season than tonight and played better, so I wouldn't blame that on tonight. Our main fault IMO is atrocious ball control and it's the same week after week. How many times do we lose the ball on the 1st or 2nd tackle and immediately find ourselves defending again? When we played Wigan the other week, we defended for 12 tackles near our line. Scrum down, our ball, long pass to Ah Van out wide which he drops (1st tackle). Scrum down, their ball, they score, we lose game by 2 points. Posted earlier that it's same old, same old every week and that's where we are not improving at all. It's not so much bad defence as not respecting possession and always putting pressure on ourselves and it's so frustrating to watch every week.

Its strange really,since some of our players have got contract extensions our team performances have(apart from bratfud away)have been woeful,just saying

It's not great, I'll give you that no problem. At this moment, I reckon we're running on fumes and there are no options left due to us being at our limits. We really do need to kick on but I think it will be next season now before we do that.

look in SOOPER DOOPER league, it's either silverware/play offs, or nothing....then focus on next season. Widnes can look forward to 2014.

Spot on mate and your team was for the taking last night with Sykes and Collis injured early on.Betts in my opinion is not the best coach in the world and I thought Powell be better.Why Betts gave Pickgersgill and Leuluai a 2 yr contract shows lack of direction.Yes Leuluai shows effort but never hardly busts the line.65 mins to put Gore on to freshen up Clarke?I like Clarke but not a zippy number 9 and to get the best out of him then a longer rest required.Betts does not seem a great tactician.

We were poor last night, but we had chances maybe to win the match if we had shown a little more composure and enthusiasm. The bomb from Craven in the 1st half summed up our performance, a good bit of skill but the chase was non existant.

Danny Kirmonds performance typified Wakefields performance.

Thought our pack looked very weak last night - Wakey had such a territorial advantage they should have pasted us.

In Betts' defence you can't coach players to knock on the ball as often as they did last night, but without Mellor we really struggled for some fluency going forward.

Richard we don't seem to have enough punch in the forwards.I think 2 props like Cross and a fast hooker will improve our team a lot.I thought Brown had a decent game behind a beaten pack.

Hardly a kneejerk reaction though redchemic.This was yet another poor prformance from a Betts coached Widnes and the umpteenth defeat overseen by him.I think he has taken the club as far as he possibly can now.He even as much as admitted himself after last weeks thrashing from Leeds that the display had shades of 2012 about it.

I would be surprised if the new Board are even considering a change in the coaching (maybe at the end of the season if we haven't got more that the 14 points we have now and we get embarrassed at Wigan in the Cup, but even then I doubt it!).

I have a horrible feeling that the Cup game is one of the problems here, I sense that there is a genuine belief within the Club that we can pull off a win at Wigan and that all energies are focussed on that. A stupid approach if true, as I dont think its a realistic hope and even if it were I am not sure that we have the squad strength to go much further.

My preference is to consolidate our position in the league and not to leave ourselves vulnerable to being overtaken by Cas (or anyone else for that matter putting in a late burst!). A decent Cup run is fine if our league form is decent, but it clearly isn't at the moment.

What is so desperately frustrating though is that a half decent effort and we could have won last night's game, we gifted them the game with our own mistakes. They clearly put more effort and desire in than we did, but the chances were there and in the main went begging. A poor pass to Ah Van (which he might have done better with) prevented a certain try and losing the ball so many times when in an attacking position was just criminal.

Sadly Craven didn't look like a Superleague player, he wasn't alone, but we really missed Mellor.

As has been said before DB is not strong on tactics, he has been good this season at getting the best out of players and developing a strong team ethic.

Irrespective of what happens at Wigan, we really need to be back firing on all cylinders against London, we can't allow them to build on a decent performance away to Catalan.

Taking the point made by WV concerning Joe Mellor. Yes, we did miss him in midfield particularly for his defence around the scrum and the PTB, as well as his backing up. I can see why Betts keeps Hanbury at Full Back as Mellor has developed into a fine Scrum Half.

And just a little something I must add for the "Sack Betts Fraternity." Betts does not coack players to make silly mistakes like wild passes, stupid offloads, dropping the ball, forward passes, giving away daft penalties, and giving the ref backchat. I do hope some people realise that.

Yes but Betts offers or wants players to have contracts who are not at Superleague level.

Wigan fan in peace. I'm amazed you guys are so down in the dumps, you almost beat us a few weeks ago (would have drew if your halfback didn't do a daft grubber into touch at the end instead of knocking over a drop goal) and you've a reasonable chance of beating us this Monday given our current form. Win that, get drawn against the winner of that London/Sheffield game in the semis and you could have a challenge cup final to look forward to. So chin up!