Re: Widnes Game : Sat Jan 16, 2016 10:13 pm  

Yer we will be there.

Re: Widnes Game : Sat Jan 16, 2016 10:17 pm  

Wi shudds Al bi there in numbers, show these Scouse pansy who boss.

Re: Widnes Game : Sun Jan 17, 2016 5:14 pm  

18v18. Any reports? Grove, shudds Atom Blonde 4.0 % Mmm!

Re: Widnes Game : Sun Jan 17, 2016 5:26 pm  

Late try from Ambler after being 14-0 down. Other tries from Sharp and Johnston against what looks to have been a pretty strong Widnes line-up. That's all from the Twitter feed, not got any more I'm afraid.

Re: Widnes Game : Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:01 pm  

No Grix, G.Moore, Divorty, A.Robinson, Bennion, Saxton, Potts, Greenwood, Martin, Tyrer today and even with 3 reserve lads sounds like we did very well and played some good stuff according to reports. 14-0 down at HT so to come back shows good charactor. Tangata, Moore and Manning had a very good game by all accounts as did Chester Butler. Heaton took a knock to the head early on and came off. Widnes missed 3 Conversions. Good solid start and even with half the first team squad missing matched a FT Super League team. We may not finish top, but I feel we will be in the top 4 again. All positives

Re: Widnes Game : Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:15 pm  

Chester butler the young centre from siddal??

Re: Widnes Game : Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:17 pm  

oggy123 wrote:

Chester butler the young centre from siddal??

Yes

Re: Widnes Game : Sun Jan 17, 2016 7:08 pm  

Watched him against the miners at miners and couldn't believe he was playing ametuer rugby he looked the part!!

Re: Widnes Game : Sun Jan 17, 2016 7:24 pm  

Plenty positives from today's performance and first few thoughts.

Fitness wise we matched them for the full 80 and if anything finished the stronger, which considering this was our first run out against a strong Widnes line up with a couple of games already under their belts is a good sign.

As a team no one had a bad game and none of the young lads looked out of place.

We looked a lot quicker in attack with Johnson and Robinson in the halves when Scotty went off and this cold be another dangerous combination to play against other sides especially in the second half when teams tire.

Individually
Sharp looked Sharp and will be a real handful.
Fairbanks made a telling contribution when he came.
Luke had a big second spell and Mitch got better in his.

Need to fix up the right side defence and our touch kicking but not bad for the first run out.

Re: Widnes Game : Sun Jan 17, 2016 7:39 pm  

Just got back and what a relief to see some live rugby, involving Fax, for a change.
Faxcar's summary is a good one with the whole dynamics of the game changing when Sharp went to fullback and Johno into the halves. We did well to stay in the arm wrestle in the first half as Widnes looked dangerous with ball in hand and their defensive line speed was much quicker than ours which nullified our attacking options.
Our kicking game out of hand on last tackle plays needs work on.
Also gaining more yardage on penalty kicks to touch.
Ambler was on fire in both attack and defence.
Sharp was a revalation at both wing and fullback and on that performance we are not going to be seeing 12 tries as the leading try score tally this season as it was last season!
Fantastic length of the field try which is worth a look it it's on yout tube/highlights.
Crowd just over 1300 and it was blummin freezing!
I know it's early days but on that performance as a first hit up with 10 players missing we look to have a stronger squad and continuing from where we left off last season.
Still can't get my head around why the bookies think we are going to finish 7th!