They're going down the tubes.

No one is getting paid tomorrow, administration is on the horizon.

Very sad should this be the case. It's been fun having the bragging rights over the faction of my family that were seduced by the dark side.

Amen to Widnes I am done with Rugby-league.

If that is the case then club loyalties are irrelavent, it's a sad day for Rugby League and for the players and staff.

It also suggests that decades after the inception of professional RL some chairman shouldn't be trusted with a tea fund let alone a million pound business.

So sad to see the demise of a once great club as Widnes, however nowadays as in most sport's it is business oriented. The people who should be held to account are first and foremost the board !
It is not rocket science to see that if your income is less than your outgoing's you are facing the inevitable.

The salary cap is clearly failing to prevent clubs going bust. Is it time to remove the shackles and let the well funded clubs thrive?

I think the top & tail is unless you have a wealthy backer or a board that is in it for the love of it you will struggle to keep your head above the rising tide!

It's a shame as some of my fondest memories are ofus playing widnes dezzies rivalry with offiah and with some widnes fans. That fear when we played them n Howard n soeensen were in form going to it to watch them in the WCC Tho even during their successful times there was always a financial emergency around the corner.

Poor management and a bad deal on the stadium in terms of where match day money is going coupled with dwindling attendances in a town that cannot support a club with the aspirations a side of widnes's history should expect. Unless they find a wealthy backer who has time and money I think anything else is just again patching over a pretty big hole.

We've lost some pretty big name clubs from the top flight, Halifax Sheffield widnes fetherstone Bradford and leigh. Clubs come and go for many reasons I'm. Thankful we look secure for the forseable.

W71 I'm with you, the argument that the cap stops clubs going bust is a myth look at Salford Bradford widnes leigh. What it does is limits aspiration of potential investors both in clubs and the game in general. Its kit like the cap is particularly high given that some prole in London earn more than that in a year themselves!!

This is very sad and it’s happening all too often to rugby league clubs.

Feel sorry for Widnes a good local rival. Always looked forward to the derbys and it was usually one of our better attendances.

We must thank our lucky stars that we have the people we have in charge and our club looks like is run sensibly. I remember the dark days at a crumbling Wilderspool when it almost became a duty to follow the Wire as there was little enjoyment in it.

Almost always the highest over the years.

It's not looking good - Sunday's game has been postponed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/47319477

It's not looking good - Sunday's game has been postponed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/47319477

Gone into Admin, 12 points deduction and a whole world of pain.

Makes you grateful for what we have at the moment.

I get absolutely no joy from our neighbours plight, I hope they can get a backer and be back on track quickly.

I'd swap them for Saints all day long.