Pretty sure they also won the Northern Rail Cup a few years ago. We had no chance back then. Thankfully.

You lot would love to have a World Club Challenge trophy on your honours list...but that ain't happening anytime soon.

Doesn't matter when it was, Widnes have beat the best from Down Under become World Club Champions, something Warrington have never done.

Widnes are part of the elite five English clubs to have won the World Club Challenge. Warrington aren't.

Warrington are part of the elite of never playing in division 2....
With...erm....no one else.

Honest question - would you swap your, near 30 year old, WCC to have a competitive team again?

He won’t answer that honestly if he even answers it all.

It’s weird as I sort of feel sorry for Widnes fans. But the two trollls on here make me sort of want to euthanise the Widnes club again, just like we did in that crucial game in 2005. Not a good time to troll me thinks.

I do too. There for the grace of God go us.

Without Tesco wanting a supermarket on the brewery site, and a wealthy benefector, it could have been us easily.

These are remaining fixtures before the split. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-leagu ... e/fixtures Some very interesting and important games there, we have teams fighting to stay in the 8 and teams fighting to make top 4. The beauty of all this is most of the teams involved all seem to be playing one or the other. Big result for Catalan tonight against Cas.

These are remaining fixtures before the split. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-leagu ... e/fixtures Some very interesting and important games there, we have teams fighting to stay in the 8 and teams fighting to make top 4. The beauty of all this is most of the teams involved all seem to be playing one or the other. Big result for Catalan tonight against Cas.

The benefactors that saved the club wasn't Tesco or so much SJM.... Tesco just gave us a stadium, and SJM took took control following the guarantee move to the HJ.
WBC decided was in interest to absorb the debt of the loans by taking over Wilderspool... and giving us free use of it...who was the real benefactors?...us, the tax payer.
We absorbed the debts that was tabled by WBC and the then board.

Surely he'd keep the memories of the WCC.

If it was a case of swapping a 30 year old WCC in order to win Super League again, maybe he'd swap that. But just "be competitive"? All that would do is raise Widnes to being a Warrington.

30 year old WCC versus potential death in the lower leagues though?

Oh dear. Rather than obsessing with all things Wire, if I were our two Pollutant "pals", I'd be looking at the form of Toronto, Toulouse, Fev and 'fax and wondering where their 2 points will be coming from, rather than events 6 miles down the road.

All this, and still going on about that night when grown men were crying, may I remind them of such relevences of things, that fated night.
We still had
Our first female PM
A wall dividing Berlin
Nelson Mandela still sewing mailbags
A cold war
Tianamon square
and Jive Bunny

The world's moved on. Pity Widnes haven't.

Plus the insult of going down this season cos they won't win away when playing super league opposition... And they won't beat Toronto wherever they play em...shame in a way

Will Toronto actually get 4 home games or is there something in place like it is for Challenge Cup.