Posted on the Widnes Fans Forum (not the RL fans one)...

"I don't know how Wakefield do it, I don't think they're anything special, just seem to be able to play their strongest line up nearly every week.

People say as soon as we get injuries we struggle, would love to see the same happen to Wakey and see how they fare."

Can anyone with a better memory than me remember what we did have?? I recall it was actually quite bad at times...Johnstone, Ashurst, Miller, Huby??? I know the club never whinged about it and never made any excuses.

What was our injury list like?

Johnstone missed 18 games injured against Catalans
Lyne missed 7 games injured against Salford
Milky 9 games injured against wigan
Woody 3 games injured against leeds
Allgood was out for most of season before leaving
Kirmond missed 7 injured against wigan
Molloy issues didn't feature all year
Fifita missed 3 games
Batch missed the last 11
Hadley missed 5 injured against leigh
Walker banned from July

Still don't let facts get in the way of fake news widnes fans

They seem to have a selective memory. When we played in semi final didn't we only have 16 fit players and Kirmo put his hand up to play?

Can't help you with the injury list but what Trinity have done right is spread our cap over players evenly, we don't have four or five superstars taking up mega amounts of £'s. That in itself allows us to strengthen in depth, I'd guess (without looking at the squad list) we have 8 players ready to step in without particularly weakening the starting 17.

Well said Daddycool.

It just goes to show that yes, like everyone else, we get injuries, and that we do have strength in depth.

Another thing that this initial post reminded me of was, when in 2015, we played away at Leeds during the Easter schedule, and we had our injury crisis, Brian McDermott, said, pretty much, tough, we all go through these runs and have to deal with it, but then a year later, when they had the same issues, he was pretty much down beat, and used that as the excuses as to why they were struggling.

Hilarious, the lack of knowledge shown there is unbelievable
Midway through the season we were well struggled
It was the same in the 2016 season
Our injury list was so bad then danny Kirmond played on injections just so we could field a team

What the likes of widnes fans are still failing to get there heads round is we are now a top team with a v strong squad


This was our team line up in June last year against Salford which is when we were at our worst

Grix, Gibson, Lyne, Arundel, Caton-Brown, Williams, Finn, England, Wood, A. Walker, Hadley, Ashurst, Sio.

Replacements: Crowther, Annakin, Hirst, Huby.

And of that first team there Walker and Gibson could hardly walk and played injured

That's a team missing
BJB
Topou
TJ (who missed 80% of the season)
Miller
Fifita
Kirmond
Arona
Allgood

We were v unlucky around that period because we lost fifta and miller who to me are our two main strike players

It's yesterday's news but if our injuries hadn't being so bad imo we would have made the top 4

The top paragraph........ HILARIOUS www.runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk/ ... d_Trinity/ Quote WIDNES Vikings will have to up their game on Saturday when they travel to face a Wakefield Trinity side that has once again proved to be Super League’s surprise package (6.30pm ko). It's no surprise to us !

The top paragraph........ HILARIOUS www.runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk/ ... d_Trinity/ Quote WIDNES Vikings will have to up their game on Saturday when they travel to face a Wakefield Trinity side that has once again proved to be Super League’s surprise package (6.30pm ko). It's no surprise to us !

I'm happy to keep being a surprise

Maybe we should have BOO written on our shirts just to drive the message home.

Not sure if I missed the announcement, but why was Molloy out all season? And any ideas if he has a club this year?

Guys, please do not get dragged into Daddycool`s antics. All he does is tells lies and the sooner he is kicked off this forum the better.

He is also very mean to old people.

.....and kittens

don't forget the kittens

If only I could tag people in comments, hopefully he will see it.

Vastman - surely you agree he's the real troll?

Only troll here is you mate, wonder if others are getting as bored of you as i am

Sorry are you calling me or Upanunder a troll?