Having listened to the Rugby league programme on GMR last night I think the whole town is excited about our prospects for next season. I can't wait and this season is only just finishing.

the cup would be nice, but im more looking forward to seeing some good consistent rugby next year.

Maybe one way to look at this would be; would Warrington have preferred the CC with the prospect of Lowes in charge for the forseeable future, or have Smith to look forward to for the coming seasons. I understand that the parallels aren't exact and that their trophy drought was somewhat longer than ours, but I still fail to see how many would take the trophy and Lowes rather than Smith and the prospect of challenging for/winning trophies for many seasons to come.

I would go with that too.

We won the cup in 2002 but failed to kick on and then things just went from bad to worse and then to hell with the club heading for relegation.

I think that the majority of people that travelled to Widnes for the semi-final of the cup would have realised that Noble had to go, not just because we lost but because we were exposed tactically more than ever in that second period of the first half.