Too right Offthecuff, but what I've never understood is this attendance malarky at Stinky Stadium. You play against Leigh ... Att 3,300. You play against Batley ... Att 3,300. You play against Toulouse ... Att 3,300. You play against the Mighty Fax ... Att 3,300. No matter what the night and what the opposition, it always seems to be 3,300.

But what I did notice tonight ..... a couple of seasons ago The Shay "was buzzing" for a televised match against you stinkies when your fans brought a good 700 - 800 who inhabited the North Stand. Tonight we had a "handful" of chav stinky fans in "a knot" in the corner of the South Stand. Call me "Mr Cynical" but what's that all about, then?

Bit harsh but this is what the RFL have made it for us and the game now it was kind of a meaningless game but not as we could still get 4th possibly but its a long shot. It was a bit flat, especially from the Fax fans until that last 10 minutes.
Daft thing is Widnes lost but they have the last laugh as they are in SL despite never having been in a GF not yet anyway and I doubt it on that performance.

Not at all, the game was "not" meaningless as we still had league positions to play for and there's still the "momentum factor" regarding the end of season run in for the GF, regardless of the SL franchice bow locks which may have preceeded. That was a very poor effort by the scouse fans tonight, the worst turn out I can remember. And I've always been suspicious of their "3,300 attendence claims" when I've seen them on the box. Hmmmm .....

The attendance when Leigh went to widnes last week was 4700+ so it's not always 3,300.

The att at the stinky stadium is over 4,000 these days. As for todays travelling, prehaps because it was on a Thursday night and on Sky, fewer people made the trip. But you know that anyway.

I don't buy into this !
"Widnes were crap" bull$hit, they were "crap" enough to be 24-12 in front and as it proved in the end another score for them at that point would have seen us scratching for a bonus point at best.

Try the line "they were MADE to look crap" for the second half of the game, the conditions as they were, they should have tightened their own game up & watched their awful self discipline instead of piggy backing Halifax. For lessons in throwing the ball around desperado's, Halifax are the master craftsmen, but don't expect it to work on every occassion, you slid in defence very well to combat our fringe/flank attacks, but you didn't cope very well with the dabs through when Danny Jones spotted your sliding defence and he put the ball in the correct space for our runners to score.
Betts got his gameplan wrong I'm afraid, Ball got his correct & his players executed it very well.

Great win against the odds. The old spirit shone through in the 2nd half, keep going lads we can get there. Looked good on TV watched it when I got home. Championship Clubs sre the entertainers not SL.

I agree. Also, Widnes wanted to beat us so badly they utterly lost the plot by not playing to the conditions and giving away cheap field position through too many penalties. What did the penalty count end up, anyone?

The only thing worse than a bad loser is a poor winner.
Probably worth getting your own house in order before you start worrying about other teams. What did you have there last night 1,700 - 1,800 of your own fans?

used to think gannon gave away lots of penalties when at widnes. but finnegan is excelling even his numbers. good for fax.

Nice touch from the Fax lads to run to South Stand at the end, as always lead by Miles and Rob. Interesting that Frank, Rob and Whitey were interviewed by Pete Emmett on the field too.

Strange that the Widnes players didn't come over to acknowledge their fans. The fans which had travelled over, on a thursday night, in appalling weather, when they could have stayed home and watched on SKY TV. The Widnes fans were in very good voice all evening so why not make the effort to actually come over to thank them??
Maybe due to a large number of their players knowing they won't be playing for them next season? Maybe not.
Either way, to just briefly applaud the fans from halfway line is not right.

The widnes players did come all the way over to applaud there fans in the south stand.