Amazing! Widnes fans have been praying for the day they hit the big time again, and to be fair to them they have been patient, but yet after only a few games back they are boycotting games because they are getting some thrashings! Makes you wonder if these fans deserve super league rugby after all!
Things will get better for widnes but it will take time.

Amazing! Widnes fans have been praying for the day they hit the big time again, and to be fair to them they have been patient, but yet after only a few games back they are boycotting games because they are getting some thrashings! Makes you wonder if these fans deserve super league rugby after all!
Things will get better for widnes but it will take time.

This is all we hear from the club.

The problem is that it could be said if we had lost every game 100-0, therefore it absolves the coaches from any possible fault.

There is the distinct possibility that much of Widnes's problems are down to poor coaching and poor recruitment which again is the coaches responsibility. If you just say 'it takes time' how do you accurately judge whether anybody is doing a bad job?

Most people assess the way the team are playing and compare it to previous attempts at Super League. The reality is that we have the worst points difference at this stage of any team for 15 years. We have conceded more than 30 points for 15 consecutive games when Featherstone managed to concede less at their first attempt. Although Widnes played better yesterday as well, Featherstone have at least showed that maybe the gap isn't as humongous that Widnes have been making out it is.

To many Widnes fans, it seems more plausible that the unproven and failed Championship coach Denis Betts is a bigger part of the problem than simply a lack of time. One things for certain and that's that we will see. SOC is a stubborn SOB and he won't be sacking him any time soon.

Oh well we will get rid of years of heritage and a showpiece competition because you don't get it, which if you're an Aussie you won't.

CCup games have never been big crowd pullers until the Semi Finals.

The reason SL games are fuller is pretty obvious - season tickets. Also I'm assuming the kids still get in for free/cheap at away games if they have a season ticket.

Not rocket science is it.

Get in free.....but also get in free to Challenge Cup games until the Quarter Finals.

But not the mums and dads and there is the crunch - perhaps a discount for season ticket holders might attract a few.

Wigan had one....it didn't

To be honest the only way to tackle it positivly is for the RFL to set prices for each round and perhaps incorporate discounts into that for season ticket holders.

Paid £12 at Fax to watch Scorpions on Saturday and £15 at Wigan on Sunday for Crusaders which in truth was a bit much but worth it for that try at the end.

£10 all in for the round just gone, perhaps £15 (perhaps £12 season ticket holders) for the others pre-semi might not be a bad way to go.

I was at the grand national, couldn't believe it when I saw they were playing this match on the same day as the national and the FA cup semi
Idiotic decision.

It's not just RL / Challenge Cup that's suffering with this, the FA Cup attendances in the 3rd - 5th Rounds rounds have been much lower for the than they use to be too.

What surprses me though is that clubs don't just selectively close areas of the ground to ensure that the full sides are opposite the main camera positions, as showing empty terraces can't be beneficial to attacting sponsors/advertisers etc.

The Widnes fan that went to FA Cup Semi Final or The Grand National fair enough, the ones who boycotted are an embarrassment to our club. Did us no favours what so ever.

I was working so couldn't go.

all these numpties on about a Boycott - get real. Its not asif its only the last couple of weeks we've been bad. We've had hammerings from Hull KR, Salford and huddersfield and turned up in great numbers against London at home.

We've been getting hammered, its a saturday night, lots of people have plans on the weekend and it was on TV. Not to mention people at aintree, Wembley and other arrangements. We dont have a home game now until the 20th May against Catalans but mark my words, even if we get beat in every game running up to it we will turn out in numbers.

Although it was a great effort from our boys, nobody and I mean nobody in widnes expected us to get close. Combine this with a TV Tea time kick with £22 on the gate just after a hammering from Bradford crowds were always going to fall.

The same happened at Warrington away, in years gone by, we would fill that end no bother for a SL fixture. We'd been getting hammered and it was on TV which resulted in us not filling the stand. We need another good couple of performances to attract some of our crowd back but I'm sure 99% of our stronghold members will be at the Catalan game.

well said mate

Widnes are very poorly supported. It's as simple as that!

I remember their promotion play off in 2007 at Headingley and they barely turned out for a game as important as that for the club. On that day there wern't any other distractions taking place and hence no excuses to give. So no surprise about them not showing up for a cup game.

Grobs, that is a little harsh. Their support isn't poor imo.


£22? Was that really the price? Awful.