Or Laughton......

3 weeks ago I would of been happy with that result. Leahy is a tool.

Well done Featherstone. Great result against the Mutants. They're having a great season - it's nice to see someone new at the top.

Not overly disappointed with tonights display, Ainscough didn't have his best game but I thought Davies and Webster were our best players tonight. I thought Hardman and Morrison were poor for them but Saxton put in a shift and made good yards all night. Lets hope next weeks game is as close.

everything came off webster tonight but the credit has to go to both teams defensive displays. Widnes defence was sharp.

Hardman?

They got their drop goal from a penalty at the scrum, Widnes got penalised in 78th min for not having a loose forward in the scrum, Penalty downfield = DG for the win.

Disjointed performance tonight for me...

Not surprising really.. Netherton in at hooker looked like a player who had only been at the club for a couple of hours and in such a key area this cost us. Smith would have given us more drive and direction, Coyle some dynamism and Hulme a bit of pace and spark. I think Netherton will settle in though given an opportunity to train with the side.

Widnes never really looked like a team out there whereas Fev looked like a settled side and defended well. It was a better result than I expected but coming away from the match I was disappointed we didn't get the three points.

you have to be encouraged by the way Widnes have come back over the past couple of weeks. Ever since Janurary, we've been faced with adversity. I'm just crossing my fingers that everything may just start to click at the back end of the season. We've peaked before at this early stage, there's not a lot of use in it apart from winning the NRC. If we can managed a performance like that without some key men, I'm positive that we can get it right once the bodies are back fit.

How many 'Fev fans where there tonight?

Decent turn out, I'd say about 300 maybe?

More than that... around 450/500? Saw loads coming over on M62.

I was sat amongst the fev fans, although I sat in the block next to where I usually sit so that I wasn't quite in the thick of it, they were very vocal and I think enjoyed the game, it surprised me a bit that when I commented at half time I expected us to be out of a bonus point at that point before the match started and I was very please, they were happy with an 8 point lead. I did wonder if the fans I sat near realised that we have been hit so hard with injuries and some of the team had hardly evey trained together, let alone played together, or were just totally focused on their team. I went to the game hoping we could scrape a bonus point and came away thinking damn we could have won that one, which then made me realise just how good we were.

Featherstone aren't a top of the league team, they're a ordinary team who are cheats but they seemed to get away with it. The only things I could compliment them on would be the first try and the team speed if the line in the first half but during the second half they didn't make much of an effort to get behind the ref. They held down constantly,went for the high shot constantly and aimed for Doran all game, who surprisingly kept his temper for most of it. And the two moment, which I can recall, where they pushed around our players off the ball and got away with it. How the kicker did not get atleast a talking to for manhandling Davies when he tried to charge his kick down or even when the Featherstone player pushed Ainscough over for supporting the player. Their fans were a bunch of flatcappers who didn't seem to think Featherstone did anything wrong. It was like a scene from kes in the toilets at half time. Come on Leigh

In terms of Widnes a poor defensive display at the start lead to the first try and arguably a dubious second try. Yet it improved and we managed to keep their big forwards at bay for most of the rest of he game. I thought Netherton played quite well considering we weren't spelling him with Hulme and he looked knackered after doing a lot of work in defense. We did look quite dangerous in their half but we threw it away with all the knock ons and wild passes. But as like a few of our losses this season, if the ball had bounced differently etc it would a compelety different result. Only really Aniscough had a poor game. What was Doran doing when Webster passed him the ball, why didn't he carry it on. Dumb forward syndrome, probably thought he'd have lost it by then.