Quote: Bethman "The decision to rest a few players clearly backfired but talk of it being bad for the game seems wide of the mark to me. Wigan gave a few more youngsters a chance which most see as a good thing and the result also went some way to showing that you do actually have to turn up every week and can't just expect to win which is good for the competition.
I'd like to think that both Cas and Wakefield will win more than enough games by the end of the season to not be worrying about 2 of the points Widnes got to have come against a weekened opposition.'"
So would I. However Widnes are a new team, hit by injuries and with the bit of quality/experience indicative of the potential to get better. Apart from the admittedly major factor of IMs absence can we find enough reasons to suggest we will improve more or quicker than the Vikings?
