I was speaking with someone the other day who told me Widnes's stadium is superb.

Is it?

Never been there myself (and probably never will now)

It would look a lot better if the seats were all black ( I think 3 stands are now) but it is a nice ground, inside and out.

Good facilities and stuff there jonny?

From what i've seen there is, could do with a bit more parking but location stops that and theres a place to park at an amateur ground down the road, apart from that, it's Super Leagyue standard easily. www.superleague.co.uk/~therflc/u ... height=261 www.worldstadia.com/stadium/engl ... um/399.php

From what i've seen there is, could do with a bit more parking but location stops that and theres a place to park at an amateur ground down the road, apart from that, it's Super Leagyue standard easily. www.superleague.co.uk/~therflc/u ... height=261 www.worldstadia.com/stadium/engl ... um/399.php

Quote: Barry_McKenzie "Good facilities and stuff there jonny?'" We already ad a great stadium with good infrastructure but, since SOC took over, there has been a great deal of building work within the stadium which takes it’s infrastructure far beyond most clubs currently in Super League. This includes: - A state of the art Gym - Briefing room, with individual player tracking video - Treatment room - New locker rooms - Player ‘chillout area’ - Press area, with online capability The club is also adding a new TV gantry and interview area in the North Stand. Work is due to start soon on this. Here’s the old licence bid DVD, which will give you a better idea: www.youtube.com/watch?v=90qlwag2c1w

Quote: Barry_McKenzie "Good facilities and stuff there jonny?'" We already ad a great stadium with good infrastructure but, since SOC took over, there has been a great deal of building work within the stadium which takes it’s infrastructure far beyond most clubs currently in Super League. This includes: - A state of the art Gym - Briefing room, with individual player tracking video - Treatment room - New locker rooms - Player ‘chillout area’ - Press area, with online capability The club is also adding a new TV gantry and interview area in the North Stand. Work is due to start soon on this. Here’s the old licence bid DVD, which will give you a better idea: www.youtube.com/watch?v=90qlwag2c1w

thanks for the compliments - does seem strange that so much loyal support isn't apparent in the Championship ! If you support your team then,you support your team,don't you ? To take a football analogy,when the mighty Man City went down to the old third division the supporters remained loyal,the same with little old Norwich City who still managed managed crowds of twenty thousand or last season - that's loyalty ! not 2000 ish when the team are playing at a lower level and 10000 when the going is better - REAL supporters follow their teams through thick & thin - fans of Widnes(and TO) and the like are a fickle bunch.

That's good news Starbug !
I hope you are right,for he clubs' sake - they need the support just as they have needed over the past few years when only the old faithful bothered to turn up !

But we're still the best supported club in the Championship.

This is a Championship whose competition has been so devalued that clubs are losing fans, with some clubs going to the wall. If people don’t get excited about the competition, they won’t turn up to watch the games played within it. Widnes has lost about 800 fans since the licensing era began.

I would suggest that, in order to stop yourself looking ignorant and foolish, you actually try a little research into what you are writing about before delivering your crooked verdict.

That's all any club can hope for in this league. Having a hardcore of over 3,000 is very good in this sport, especially when the club has been in the wilderness for the last 6 years.

If you actually think any club, under the same circumstances would have anything other than their hardcore of fans left, you really are as deluded and thick as you are coming across.