These claims of wire fans heckling a player knocked out cold seem to be fairly unsubstantiated considering the Widnes player out cold was at the other end if the pitch. I'm assuming you mean that one as I can't remember any other player being knocked out and didn't hear a peep.

I can also tell you first hand that it was definitely a lot more than one Widnes fan interrupting the minutes silence back in 03. But hey, lets not have facts get in the way of things.

Your right. Short memories in Widnes though, what about when Myler got injured last Boxing Day. Your fans acted like they won a Super League game

You got the year wrong it was 2002, but like you sat lets not let facts get in the way of a good scum fans debate.

I remember in the 1980s, Widnes fans being racist to Dessie Drummond. How about that then Widnes fans!

I make it 3-2 to us in the scum fans debate!

Whatever way you want to justify it, go for it. I was sat near your fans and when Marsh collided with another of our players he was down for a good few minutes and there were boos from your end along with shouts of get up you tart, it's not football etc. When he was helped to his feet and led off there were ironic cheers.

I've not denied anything about 03 and I clearly recall an individual voice over the general silence - if there were more (& I'm not saying there waeren't, I just don't remeber them) then my long term memory is as bad as your short term one.



Wasn't there that day so I can't comment

FFS, the race card now!!

If I had a penny for every time I heard Offiah being called a black so & so etc, etc........

Jog on.The thread is about todays game. Suck it up!

Sorry about that. We think one of the remote servers crashed. We noticed that our listening measure suddenly halved but everything looked ok at the stadium. We texted people we know who were listening (while we were commentating) and they said everything was coming through. There are however a number of servers and it looks like one crashed. Our apologies and we'll be aiming to cover most games this year.

Thanks for listening

I was there. Time and a place to say something, granted, but they simply shouldn't have had a minutes silence for a royal.

No wonder RL can't attract the required sponsorship levels.

I wasn't at the match in question, or aware of the incident before reading this thread, but I agree with that.

In a similar vein, wait and see if they have any "silences" when Thatcher finally goes!

Anyway, back to the match. I thought it was a good hit out in poor conditions for a very young team. Only 2 of our starting 13 were in there – Carvell and Riley.

Rhys Evans was very strong at left centre and tackled everything that moved as well as looking very dangerous on attack. We were solid under the high ball too.

O’Brien and Mendieka (who scored a great try) did well at half back and the pack worked hard as a unit.

Widnes defended their line really well and came back pretty well considering the weight of possession and territory we had in the first half.

Ref had a good game apart from the Shaw ‘no try’ which was a bit of an odd decision. There must have been a few Widnes fans attending their first game as they didn’t appear to understand the rules judging by the amount of booing at the refs decisions. Oh, and every Warrington pass was clearly forward……..

Apologies for my part in derailing the thread.

Didn't see the game but in the same theme, we've basically got 2 friendlies this year and only one real hit out for the 1st team. Interesting shift from a few years back when we'd play 3 or 4, albeit with an academy team playing one of the games. Presumably coaches don't see any real value playing them. Certainly, testimonials aside, I don't see any value in watching them.

I'd say that's a pretty good assessment of the game. Evans is a handfull and I've liked him as a player every time I've seen him. On the forward passes, maybe we're still adjusting to the new era where the rules are, shall we say relaxed on what constitutes a forward pass.....momentum rule mumbo jumbo etc. I thought the ref was average but he's not on his own there in refs circles. We seem to get pinged for the offences other teams get away with so fans get frustrated. We got done for holding down and from our fans perspective Higham & Wood were at it all afternoon.We did get away with a major forward pass but we were a little quiet on that one

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