Re: Widnes Game thread : Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:12 pm  

I know we had a few young lads out today but that doesn't make some of the mistakes ok. We was dropping the ball regular, we made a mess of kick offs and out right hand side defence was awful.

Youngsters or not, those mistakes ain't acceptable at this level!

Re: Widnes Game thread : Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:32 pm  

St pete wrote:

I know we had a few young lads out today but that doesn't make some of the mistakes ok. We was dropping the ball regular, we made a mess of kick offs and out right hand side defence was awful.

Youngsters or not, those mistakes ain't acceptable at this level!

We had a decent side on the sidelines today! But that doesn't excuse players on the pitch (particularly senior ones)

Any news on Dawson?

Re: Widnes Game thread : Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:34 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

Agreed, proof is in the pudding - a loss vs Leeds would make it a very poor Easter, but even then that's not the end of the world. We proved last year that we can play truly dire up until July and still make a decent fist of it.

All we did last year was finish the season in fifth, the lowest we'd finished a season in years and we didn't get anywhere near any finals. I don't see how that was a 'decent fist' of anything? Not by our standards anyway, although they seem to have slipped somewhat.

Re: Widnes Game thread : Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:34 pm  

Just got back. How was that a try when Wilkin was clearly obstructed?

Savelio was brilliant. Masoe dodged some hard work in my opinion.

Re: Widnes Game thread : Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:36 pm  

Magic Superbeetle wrote:

We had a decent side on the sidelines today! But that doesn't excuse players on the pitch (particularly senior ones)

Any news on Dawson?

Not heard anything on Dawson. Hopefully swift back next week. He's had a calf injury.


Let's not get carried away with the "bad team" excuse. Widnes had a poor team out as well.


We still had Hohaia, makinson, wheeler, jones, Wilkin, wello, Sia, Mose who could all expect to be in our 17 next week plus the likes of greenwood, Thompson and walker who have played enough super league.

Re: Widnes Game thread : Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:37 pm  

Twentyman wrote:

Just got back. How was that a try when Wilkin was clearly obstructed?

Savelio was brilliant. Masoe dodged some hard work in my opinion.

Mose doesn't do the hard yards. I worked that one out during the World Cup. Mose run well today tho.

Re: Widnes Game thread : Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:39 pm  

Dawson has a fractured cheekbone.

I thought the decisions today were correct from the ref. we did well with what we put out there. Widnes are a decent side. But with Roby etc (Fozard only played part of the first half?) missing it was a struggle.

I was really disappointed with soliola. Had a shocking game.

Re: Widnes Game thread : Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:41 pm  

Greenwood had a blinder and savelio was very good also. Masoe was very good and I think Jones has been our best player over the last month.

Walker is another one of our props who can't play the ball properly.

Re: Widnes Game thread : Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:42 pm  

Albion wrote:

Dawson has a fractured cheekbone.

I thought the decisions today were correct from the ref. we did well with what we put out there. Widnes are a decent side. But with Roby etc (Fozard only played part of the first half?) missing it was a struggle.

I was really disappointed with soliola. Had a shocking game.

Some of the knock on she let go looked a little dubious to me.

Re: Widnes Game thread : Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:45 pm  

Good effort from the young ones, with so many players out of position difficult to find any fluidity in attack. Defence still a problem whichever team we turned out, LMS, Jones and Wheeler not good performances.
Sav and Mose was a joy to watch, positive out of the game the young ones got the experience.

2 dodgy tries from Widnes I,m sure one of them would have been chalked off if we a video ref, Wilkin obstructed from tackling the player, being hammered for penalties in the first half didn,t help.