Massive pride after that performance. Every one of them heroes. Not going to give the official any of my time whatsoever. Just incredible team spirit against all odds!

Widnes great effort playing against a Wigan team and the referee who was a disgrace, as was Matty Smith at the end. Good luck for the rest of the season from a Lions fan.

How do we expect the young kids who were there tonight and new to the game to understand the rules with that idiot in charge. The dirty play Wigan were allowed to get away with sends out all the wrong messages for a family sport. Childs lost control of that game and should be held to account.

Heremaia second half different class. Looks like a top signing.

Heremaia was always a thorn in the Widnes side when he was at Leigh in the old National League One days and a player we supposedly tried to sign numerous times in the past. Since then he's played Test RL and NRL - hopefully we keep him fit. I thought Manase gave us some much needed vigour up front too.

Yeah indeed he was a right hand full. Nice to see him onboard at last

Well played for last nite.
top class team performance,
team spirit is there for all to see,
Azza will be top class signing for you guys,
again brill opening game...

When squad was announced I said I was still not sure about Betts as a coach.
Even though "I" may have doubts, the players obviously do not.
Last night proved beyond doubt that the players are definitely, definitely playing for Betts.
The belief, guts and team spirit showed last night, was exceptional.
Well played all.

Having slept on it I am a little disappointed,we could have been done out of the full two points.Yes I know it is a big relief to salvage something after what happened and people say the sending off lifted the team and gave us spirit but who can say for sure? Yes we weren't playing well at 0-10 but who is to say we wouldn't have woken up and gone on to win comfortably with 13 players ?
Well done to the team on a fantastic effort but once again everyone is talking about the reff

That was a real gutsy performance from the lads to show such determination and fight with a man down. Instead of being stretched as I feared in the 2nd half (apart from their last try), I thought we looked like the team with an extra man. You could sense the belief from all the players that they were going to have a go and get something. A hard won but fantastic point gained. The atmosphere inside the ground was great in front of a bumper crowd. Many there for the first time, and hopefully will be keen to come back for more.

Please, please can we have him back?? and well done, should have been a penalty try at the end!! Childs is a t@sser!

I thought Widnes showed a great deal of mental strength to deal with the adversity that was thrown at them. Shape and structure goes out the window when you lose your stand off and winger. Interestingly, I've read 2 or 3 comments on this site this morning saying 'on that performance Widnes won't make the 8'. I assume they also mean Wigan won't if we're handing out league positions after 1 game?!

It is strange that we seem to have a collective will in the team that enables us to play better with 12 men than we were with 13! Didn't we do the same against Bradford in 2013 when Hock was sent off and we rallied for a well earned draw. Perhaps we just throw caution to the wind in both defence and attack, or there is a collective sense of injustice that corresponds with the opposition thinking that this is now a shoe in, so they don't really have to try!
It was a great collective effort, but as others have said it allowed several players to really shine. Heremaia seemed to grow in confidence as the game wore on after an OK start. Mellor really took hold of things in Brown's absence and his kicking game was as good as we have seen in quite a while.

Everyone earned their "spurs" to be fair, although I have to say I'm not a fan of Isa's "no look" passes, especially at 90 miles an hour!

Our new boys acquitted themselves well, Heremaia already mentioned and Manuokafoa made decent yards and I noticed that several times a he was going down in the tackle his ball carrying arm was free and available to offload if anyone had been backing up. Something that we have surely got to work on, but perhaps last night wasn't the night! Clarkson too had a solid if unspectacular game (very much in the mould of the man he replaced, Galea).

One of the biggest surprises was that Marsh was caught from a scrum breakaway (is that the first time in 3 seasons that move has come off?) I think it was Gelling that overhauled him, which surprised me as I hadn't credited him with that much pace, but then he (Gelling) was a handful all night.

Sadly before all the drama, the combination of Wigan playing to the referee in terms of breaking from the 10 early and our rather pedestrian ball movement meant we didn't make much headway. I still feel our single forward drives are meat and drink to a side like Wigan who know that they only have to wait for the forward running it in, as the ball wont move beyond him, so they can concentrate their defenders. We played with greater fluency with a man short, perhaps realising that we had to make greater headway. It may well have been that we were very much finding our feet in our first competitive match and I dont want to take anything away from such a great performance in a game at 16 nil down with a player sent off and our inspirational captain "retired hurt" that could easily have been a 30 or 40 point trouncing!

Hi WV, it was Burgess who chased down Marsh, he made the break from our 20 mtrs line and got caught on their 20 IIRC, and both started level so considering it always slows you a little carrying the ball it was always likely he would be caught from such a distance out. If the scrum had been 20 / 30 metres further down field he probably scores. Burgess as we know is no slouch! Can't be too harsh on Marsh for that, however the shocking attempted tackle on Tompkins when he scored well I think we all saw what Marsh thought of that last night!