For me this-

Gaskell
Murphy
Hall
Langi
Kershaw
Smith
Lino
Butler
Hood
Battye
Ashurst
Pitt’s
Crowther

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Kay

Can't help but agree. The comments I've seen from supporters, other clubs and the shear disregard the media have for us, plus the constant ty seasons, a spell in the championship might not be so bad.

Problem is I can’t ever see us been let back in if we go out of super league.
End of the day we’re not liked.
If only we could find a money man.
Current owners have taken as far as I can see them doing and that’s not a dig. Without them we’d be gone by now.
Amazing the pitch is now hated by others but Widnes never had got to have pitch inspections and that was just as bad to play on. Ours will be great in a few months.

Much the same and worse on any sporting media sites , at least RL fans can stand within touching distance without wanting to kill each other , which certainly can’t be said for our countries national game . Even the cricket has seen bloodshed on the streets . A few nameless , faceless vile human beings trolling certainly aren’t going to take away my or my families enjoyment of the game . I suggest those that find these silly comments too harrowing, just press the off button on your device ,and hey presto , it all Goes away like magic .

That’s all well and good but Betts is referring to the pitch under Carters regime, in which he’s refused to spend any money on maintaining it.

It was the best playing surface in the game for over a hundred years, it didn’t suddenly deteriorate for no reason!

Criminal lack of funding from Carter!

Talking to Minards the sub soil was still in cracking condition hence why it was left in

Spending some money on regular watering, putting quality grass seed down, regularly feeding the pitch with the correct type of feed, hiring a plugging machine to help the soil breath and aid drainage would have fixed all of the so called problems with the pitch. These were all things that we’ve managed to do no matter what the financial position the clubs been in, that is until Carter took the decision to starve Steve Dutton of the money he needed to do his job properly.

Stupid, short sighted and a typically bloody minded, bigoted decision

Ive not played the game but i would have thought it.s mainly Knees and elbows that would suffer the most ( could be wrong ) Cant the players wear something like the skateboarders wear that should look after the most vulnerable bits, or would that impede their ability, Is that to simple a solution,or would it not work.

Thank you Alan Titchmarsh......