Tough to say, but taking into account that it's a short journey, and it's the first away of the season, I would take a guess at around 2,500-3,000.

The team has to respond after last weeks showing. I would expect a Saints win and a much improved performance from our pack.

Saints by 16

Widnes 28-6 Saints
First Try Scorer: Hock
MOM Flynn
Attendance: 11,214

Just can't see a massive turnaround from last week.
Same structural weaknesses and lack of ambition as last year.
Plastic pitch , Chemics with there tails up and Childs with the whistle.

If Gaz Hock plays that will give Widnes a massive lift. Saints as we all know have to man up in defence and carry the ball alot stronger in attack.

Widnes 18-24 St Helens
First Try Scorer: Lee Gaskell
Attendance: 8,465

You will smash Widnes on Sunday, no problem. Wellens will get a few tries and the fools who say he's past it will retreat a bit.

I will be very surprised if we win.

And when you think that only a week ago people were tipping this team to lift the SL trophy at the end of the year.


I don't mean to sound arrogant, but if we lose to Widnes on Sunday, we have a serious problem.

That's sports fans for you, league winners to also rans with one heavy defeat.

It's always a confidence buster when you get so exposed in game 1.

That may be the case for other supporters but not for me. I kept quiet on the matter of how well we would do under Brown. I will just be surprised if we win on Sunday. I struggle to see how a pack which performed so poorly and were so dominated can pick itself up enough to beat an enthusiastic side like Widnes.

But I will be happy to be surprised.

Widnes 30-Saints 18
Slight improvement from last week.

I think we will go ok on Sunday. Not predicting a nilling, but something like 12-20.

I think it will be a low scoring game as Widnes will be up in our faces with the defence, just like Huddersfield where, trying to repeat the same result. But I also think we will be quicker off our line. We gave Huddersfield acres of room to run at us. Their forwards where in full flight when they hit our line 10m back. We really need to close that gap in time between when the player receives the ball and gets hit.

I'm not after lots of players darting out of the line, but the whole line in general moving up quicker.

Ha ha ha gona love watching wigan smash u tonight u Muppet,widnes are on the rise we have turned a small corner not a massive 1 like some people think.
We wont be smashed we will compete and maybe just win