Barrow 28
Widnes 14

Bring on the Cumbrians !!!!!!

Head says Widnes but whilst I have no great love for Barra I hope they stuff the plastic scousers

The gloating from many of their fans on here after the semi went beyond banter and for that reason alone I hope they get hammered....and when they do all join me on the Widnes board!

Vikingman - sorry. You were a true gent in your comments after the semi, unfortunately you were in the distinct minority

Feel Widnes will do it and save their season. As for the 9s I predict it will be a competition that will be not that well attended and the RFL hopefully will get rid of it!

Bonus point for Widnes

The RFL have made the 9s a fiasco from start to finish. It seems to me to be an idea they thought of on one of their jolly away days after the wine had been flowing and they have made a right pigs ear of it.
Which other sport gives all profits to an opposing sport.
From what I can gather the 9s were intended to be at Stanley Park where they play League . The guys over at Blackpool have been working on the 9s and the evening dinner dance on the Saturday night since last Nov. This would have given a rugby league club a little bit of a lift.
Then the RFL shifted the 9s venue to Fylde Rugby Union ground but still allowed Blackpool Panthers to organise the evenings entertainment to compensate for change of venue. Then only a few weeks ago the RFL decided to change the evening dinner venue elsewhere as they needed the room themselves for RFL sponsors and stuff . Leaving the Panthers to find another venue at short notice and leaving Fylde rugby with a very lucritive Saturday. Then 4 days before the event the night do gets pulled because most of the teams drop their booked tables due to the fact the sponsors are holding their own dinner on Sun and the winning teams are going there .
You couldn`t make it up if you tried the whole lot of them are buffoons and that `s apart from the fiasco of the tickets.

Well I'm looking forward to a couple of days by the seaside, and I hope the Fax players not in the squad join the band of supporters that are there.

Given the speed we play at, I'm expecting (hoping?) that we make it all the way.

The players should be up for it - an enthusiastic team should be in there whatever the competition.

...oh and Barrow have blown up now - Widnes by 18

Widnes by 4 in a thriller

If we take the 9's serious we will (or at least should) destroy everyone else TBF, but we may just go to p!ss about and try some crazy moves which dont always come off

Widnes AET, their SL loaan signings will have that extra fitness.

Nothing surprises me with people running our game, either at national level or International Level. Certain teams favoured for SL, One Rule for one team and another for the rest. Doncaster, Hunslet, Rochdale left to rot whilst Celtic helped out as much as possible. No Financial Report from the World Cup saying how much profit has been made and where its going exactly, Dumb Circus in Blackpool which has little interest. Players can choose which ever Nation they want then change to another 6 months later!Really despair at the way the Sport is run at many levels.

I have to agree, we are a professional/semi-professional sport run by amatuers, and have been for a long time. Unfortunately I cannot see this changing in the near future.

Lions led by Donkeys

I have SKY but cannot stomach watching the NRC Final. I'd rather watch Songs Of Praise. I've never felt so gutted in this respect .... I've watched finals before when we, ourselves, have fallen at the last couple of hurdles. Am I getting old and bitter? I dunno.

What do you mean "getting" ?