Quote: Saddened! "Home to London/Huddersfield/Salford/Widnes/Cas/Wakey/Bradford etc it'll be ultra quiet.'"
Usual trolling garbage. At a scandalous £18.50 for a friendly, you really think last night was a true representation of a typical Widnes turnout? There was a whole raft of people who didnt go to this game on principle. The subject created a 4 page thread on a widnes forum alone.
For what its worth, the stadium looks really nice from the outside, but is just a slightly larger version of the Halliwell Jones on the inside. Breeze blocks everywhere. Fit for purpose, nothing more. Pitch seems an awful long way from the stands. The roof in the East stand appears to keep rain in rather than out. The PA system was farcical in our stand, sounded like a £25 ipod docking station.
As for the logistics, well the congestion walking away was ridiculous. The bridge to town was utterly rammed to the point of tripping over your feet, the walkway round Tescos to get there is so constricted (and dangerously dark) that at times you could barely walk at all and it ended up taking about 15-20 mins to get across into town. Just to remind you, that was with 11k fans. God knows what it will be like when Wigan turn up.
Good experience overall, mainly due to it being a good game. It will become a good RL venue, but some serious flaws need ironing out.
HTH.
You and me both 
