Not a disaster if we lose IMO. widnes only have 2 more home games after Thursday and they're gash away plus we have wakey twice still to play so I still think we can finish ahead of them if we lose. Would be great to get a win but it's tough there with the plastic pitch being a massive advantage for them

Stop Ah Van, you'll stop them. Get the Binman on him.

Looking forward to it. We need to be loud behind the lads on Thursday however many of us there are. They've worked had for the last few weeks so it's our turn again.

I might need to sleep all this weekend after Newcastle then schlepping over there!

With the recent run this is now not the must win game I thought it might be. A win would now put us in a very good position, but a loss wouldn't rule us out as I'd feared. Carry on as we have been and I think we'll be knocking on the door of the top 6.

Kev Brown would be gutted reading that!

Reading this thread is just like reading the Widnes board, Thursday is a big game for both of us and would be a very important 2 points for whoever gets them. I agree a defeat isn't the end of either side - the league is that close there's not much point looking at it too much at the minute. Should make for a good game though, the division split is to surely create more fuss around games like this.

Good point viking - the structure makes this game huge. The down side of the structure is that whoever comes 8th or even 7th and has no chance of then making the top 4 - their games could become fairly pointless. We'll see how it pans out.
Real pity its not a sunday afternoon, would be probably a record crowd in modern era for this fixture. Both teams playing really well, we'd have a huge following if on the sunday. Brown is the best 6 in SL for me currently, if we can starve him of too much good ball, we'll go well.

You could be right but the way things are going this year I think the team finishing in 8th won't be far behinde the team in 4th and will have a fighting chance with a good run of results to finishing in top 4.

With games left I think we could finish in any position from 4th - 11th

And you could argue so could Cats/Cas/Hudds - makes for an exciting league which is surely what we all want.

Re: Kev Brown - he certainly is the man who makes us tick but give him too much attention and we have ways to change our play. Joe Mellor at scrum half is potentially a better player for us and a few times when Brown gets the attention it creates more space for Mellor, and you'll all know about Heremaia who has been fantastic for us.

Hope you all have a safe journey over - should be a belter.

Sorry to disappoint you, Jake, but Widnes have 3 more home games after Thursday namely Huddersfield, Catalans and Salford, all well winnable. Our remaining away games are Hull KR, Castleford and Wigan. Interesting end to season. Should be a cracker on Thursday, and we definitely owe you one after last season, when you absolutely steamrollered us.

Sorry, thought you only had 2.

No problems with today's disciplinary reviews, although Watts, Mini and Sa did get "no charge", as did Phelps.

Good point that No6, never realised we beat them without those 2.