The lights are the worst in the league from a filming point of view. Its difficult to get anything near a correct colour balance there and the pitch looks like a silvery green. Skin tones are affected as well. I would think SKY would dread a night match there, even with their £millions kit. Just wondering here like, but could they have a 'dimmer switch' or the like ??


THE HOOF

On another vein, why didn't Widnes sell tickets tour for the West stand first? It looks bigger so could have probably accommodated all our fans and they would have to open and staff one stand.

They only have three fingers on a hand probably couldn't count how many stands they have got !!
It would of been the smart thing to do, plus some fans might of the thought away end sold out and not travelled so probably lost out on revenue as a club

Looks like Widnes/Halton Council agree as they went out to tender last month for a floodlight upgrade with works planned to start in May (finishing in August). Google is a wonderful thing.

It would be interesting to see what the Rfl think about this and whether the current floodlighting fits within the guidelines.

I don't think the viewing in the east stand at Widnes is helped by the fairly low roof & the fact that lights in the stand always seem to be in your line of vision ,when sat in the top half of the stand.

Had this conversation with a Widnes fan a while back and he thinks (though he admits he's only guessing) that it's to do with the West stand being on Lower House Lane which is obviously far busier with traffic.