GAME ON : Widnes Vikings v St. Helens - 15:00:00

GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE GAME, BUILD UP, THE ACTION AS IT HAPPENS AND AFTERMATH BELOW.

Law of averages says that we win a game soon.

St Helens 18 Widnes 25

Your optimism is commendable.

Why thank you, I've had a fiver on us at 10/1 to win outright.

#BuyingMoney

#putthebottledown

Saints by 30+.

What a tackle from Barba. Thought he couldn’t defend?

Regards

King James

You mean an illegal neck tackle that both the ref and video ref ignored, penalty try.

Yeah I was actually surprised that never got picked up on. They're normally penalised in any other situation.
And then Percival knocks on but the try is given.
As I was typing another scrum has been given to Saints after a Peyroux knock on! Widnes were always going to struggle today but they're not getting much luck.

referee shouts "luke (douglas), your offside" from a kick then just lets him challenge the widnes player, then getting the knock on call wrong too

widnes certainly getting the poo end of the stick atm

They're playing pretty well though are Widnes. Making metres fairly easy and look dangerous every time they've been near the Saints line.

And ref ignores a clear penalty for Widnes when the St.helens player interferes on the last to slow Widnes down then pings Widnes for offside and again ignoring that St.helens were 5m offside at the last kick off. Incompetent reffing again

Leading with the raised arm/elbow how is that not an offence by LMS?

Good effort from Widnes, been the better team. Saints fans have to hope that Barba doesn't get injured or return to Aus soon because the rest of the team really isn't as good as they think. Would still tip a Saints win 2nd half as I don't think Widnes are strong/organised enough defensively in their own 20/30m.

Really fun game to watch so far