Does anybody know whats going on with that at the minute? drove past today and it was dead. Is it still open or is it still getting done up? is it up for sale?

Shame as it was a good pub and IMO is the Widnes Vikings pub or it certainly should be marketed that way. Pity they changed the colour scheme to Green as the Black and White was so much better.


Bring back the real Albion!

It's not open and it's up for sale as far as I'm aware.

I don't think we quite realise but as hard as it hit us when we missed out on Super League I suspect that some of the local pubs like the Albion are hit even harder. Being in a division where we get barely half the crowds we do in Super League with a tenth of the away support must hit them hard.

Very true my friend but the Albion has a decent appeal as it's a pub thats on the way to town and i know in years gone by it was always busy with pre town drinkers. Lets hope that a Widnesian couple get it who are Widnes fans. Or even better Steve Oneill.

Let's all chip in and buy it. I have a fiver. Theres a start.

This would be the ultimate Widnes pub if it was ran by us lot. We could chain littlerich and starbug in the cellar and only let them out when they finally swore allegiance to our cause.

We could put one of those signs on the windows like they used to in the olden days,

No children under 14, no tramps and no Warringtonians.

£50 in from me, get all the pictures of glory days plastered around the pub. Paint it Black and White and get regular club meeting held in there.

Every Monday night after a win, a massive big screen showing of the match.

And proper real beer none of this budweiser nonsense.

Funny that as the Leigh arms "Leighs Rugby Pub" was nearly destroyed by our friends from Warrington after a game in 2005.

The Crown was best pub in Widnes we used to go before every game when we played you ,good food etc despite it having a couple of dodgy landlords

£10 from me. Surely we're nearly there now?

Never mind that. Get us a cup of coffee will you.

I'm already giving you a lift to work you ungrateful sod.

I was in the Jockey on Good Friday and there was loads of Widnes fans before the game having a pint. Nice little boozer that and not far from Parklife where I reside. No room to spin a cat mind but decent. The lock-ins are legendary though.

Be like a scene from ' SAW ' , who could knaw there own leg off first to get to the computer

Used to be around £1.60 a pint then got sold, which was the beginning of the end.

Always enjoyed our visits to the Albion, always good banter and the food was decent enough. Cheap booze helped as well. Hope it's restored to former glories sooner rather than later (though I was surprised with how much Leggies has improved when I went in before the Gateshead game).

It isn't shut?? Was busy as it usually is on a tuesday night last night

Leggies has perked up but it does attract the one tooth townies with a 1995 shirt on and they always ask is Richie Eyres still playing.


Class.

Is he? Be honest with me!

So that's where I recognise you from.

Ill let you of with that one Mattus.