I've read the whole thread Dr Knobrot... there is nothing from our fans to suggest arrogance.. relief at a home tie (which is fair enough) and repeated mentions of how difficult a game it is? The gobby stuff is coming from the Fax fans.
It was just a little dig at your mans comments, nothing more. Go and do some colouring in and relax little man!

Rovers - go see the nurse and get some more medication!!

Are you making one Friday or are you having your hair done or off to a gerbil festival or summat you orange ovoid oaf!

No arrogance from myself.I said ,in agreement with Phil Kinsella,''it's going to be a cracker'' meaning a great game but not sure who will win it.If I was arrogant I would have said ''it's going to be a cracker but we will win easily'' but then the game wouldn't really be a cracker if one team won easly.

I'm not so sure it will be a good game. But if we win, then who cares. I fancy us more this week than I did against Haven, anyway.

TBF, if telephones had reached Yorkshire in 1986, you would have been able to find out that York were losing anyway and it was irrelevant whether you got the point or not.

Feeling much more confident about Friday than I was ahead of the Haven game last week, but still - Harris didn't play in either of the league games against us and I do think we were able to keep a closer eye on Andy Kain as a result. And the first half against Fev in June was maybe the best display by us all year.

The Widnes fans have been quite harsh with alot of the players and performances this season, I think everyone will be pleasantly surprised if we achieve anything int heplay-offs, however our initial thought was that we'd have to play 3 away games and win if we wanted to reach the final, the fact that results have given us 2 home games obvioulsy improves our chances, like it would with any side. Our better performances have been at home this year, fact.

Friday's game will be a very good game, one which I think will be very close and if we play like we did on Thursday I don't think we'll win.

Key will be getting as many of the players back who missed last week, all big players for us this year.

We need at least two, probably three, of those missing players back on Friday. Morrison and Duffy in particular. It would be great to get either Toa or Gaskell back as well, but I believe it is likely that they'll both miss this game too.

Hopefully home advantage will see us right, but I've no doubt this game will be a tough one. I'm not just saying that, I mean it! At the end of the day it makes the whole thing more exciting, and I'm really looking forward to Friday now as a result.

What gobby stuff?

On your board, your fans are saying that you will be playing Halifax at Halifax next week for a place in the final......

Not seen much in the way of people counting their chickens over Friday night. Pretty much all of our fans are feeling wary of Featherstone as the opposition due to us not being a country mile ahead of them.

Only one, to be fair, but nevertheless a Halifax fan.



I don't see any of that at all from Widnes fans. Only that they think they can win, but using words like [i'hopefully'[/i and saying it will be [i'tough'[/i.

Positive stuff, but not arrogant.

We think, if we beat Fev on Friday, going on form and home advantage, we are likely to be playing Fax in the Semi-Final. You might not like that, but I think most fans of every Championship club would probably take the same view. You lost the tag of favourites a couple of months ago.

It seems to me that other fans of Championship clubs expect us to be arrogant, so they see it no matter what we actually say, hence we get numpties like '[irovers'[/i coming on here talking sh/te.

Going on 'form' Barrow lost to Halifax in all 3 games this year, lost their last two league games and have got rid of their coach (again). I think there's two hard to predict games this week...

Halifax have had a slump since then.

Going on current form and home advantage, I'd definitely say that Barrow would be most peoples favourite to win that game. That doesn't mean that Halifax aren't capable of beating Barrow. They've already, as you say, proved otherwise.

I personally think Halifax will win on Thursday up at Barrow, by quite a few.

Tough trip to Barra for us if thats the case and a ground in which we rarely win at.

I'd like that to happen, because I'd love to face Halifax in the final. However, as VM has said, it would mean a hard trip to Barrow for us at a ground we haven't won at yet.

I think Barrow will beat them anyway.