Didn't play today. Had his wrist in a support strap.

was being waterboy for the day........suppose it's his fault again then, not quick enough to get the team refreshed between plays!!!!

Get back on your own site Norsegirl. Anagram of Norse is Snore and that's what you make me do. Go away.

How was the Ref? lol.

Don't get how Halifax can call NRC cup micky mouse - they'd LOVE to win it! And aint won out in about 30 years so comment is laughable!

Talk about a game of two half.

Fax were awful in the first half and Gateshead were really good. They seemed to get better and more confident with every mistake and bad decision we made in that half.

Second half fax seemed to make the better decisions and you could see that once we scored Gatehead were rattled. That gave us the chance to get back into it.

It was disappointing to concede all those points in the first half, although Gateshead scored some good tries with nice team work. We just seem to be falling off in tackles at the moment. Hopefully the lads can sort that out for Friday.

I do hope Ben Black is back for Friday because we certainly look a shaddow of the good side without him. We don't look as good with just hookers playing in all the key poisitions.

Saying all that, Gateshead should be applauded for a great effort today and a deserved win in my opinion.

i feel like slitting my wrists but at least we have played well for our last 40mins of rugby

the ref cannot be blamed for our 1st half shambles

just got back, totally dejected first half performance really looked to be not trying at all in defence at times with a couple of esay wingers tries. Gateshead played brilliant in that half and made few errors, good kicking game and looked a real force. However 2nd half they made as many errors as we did first and we started to look like we could score everytime we got near their line. If there was ever a game of two halfs could have sneaked a draw at the end with more composure but would have been underserved a few forwards got us close. Ah well bring on Leigh think we will get back up for it after a great 2nd half.

You miss Ben Black too much.

Its as simple as that for me, it was commented on many times by Widnes fans last week that if you were to take Ben Black out of your team you would become quiet ordinary. Im not going to join the stupid slanging matches about Webster/Black, i would take black in a heartbeat. Reminds me this season of what Webster did to Widnes in Hull KR's promotion season.

But without him?

If Black stays fit you have a damned good chance to win this division, If he picks up and injury i dont see you making the final. And this is not intended as a daft dig, i was shocked when i saw Gateshead racking up points without reply from Fax. I came here, noted Black was missing and had a feeling you wouldnt be able to claw it back. ( you did better than i expected to be fair )

I wouldnt say it was meltdown yet but anything but a win next week against Leigh? and you should probably get concerned.

christ we've only lost 2 games you'd think we were now in mid table can concentrate fully on the league from now on, always thought today was going to be tough anyway.

Its not about the league position its about confidence, before your coach declared you " the best team outside of SL by a Country mile" or words to that extent. I didnt see you as getting beaten by anyone, you looked stronger, faster and more confident than any other team i had watched. As the defeats mount you lose confidence, which is one of the main ingredients of a outstanding team. Not only that but now your the Team to beat in this division and you are marked as the big game for the small clubs.

I still think you will Win the GF, but im no where near as confident as i was 5 weeks ago.

you wouldnt have thought that after half time once our players had woken up

We shouldn't have been in a position to need to come back from 32 nil down.

maybe not but we were and we came back further than i think any other team in the league would have.