: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:51 am  

[quote=". But I'd be happy with with anything above 2500 tbh mate. [/quote] I notice from the Valhall Foundation page on the official site that there will be 400 kids from St Gerrards & Spinney Ave on tonight. http://widnesvikings.co.uk/community_about.html

[quote=". But I'd be happy with with anything above 2500 tbh mate. [/quote] I notice from the Valhall Foundation page on the official site that there will be 400 kids from St Gerrards & Spinney Ave on tonight. http://widnesvikings.co.uk/community_about.html

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:53 pm  

nes2002 wrote:

Still amazes me that this sort of thing is posted on the clubs web site... Stay away fans that he wants to go matches wont be lookin at the site or message boards where it is posted....

I haven't seen any adverts for tonights game round town. Have any of you?

Sadly a couple of these fans were season tickets holders up to last season.Still if we can afford to let these fans go away then so be it.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:24 pm  

1977 wrote:

Great idea to play on Friday night,it's not like we have any competition with Stains and w**e playing live on sky. With such wonderful planning i am sure our gates will go through the roof this season.

Don't think that should be a problem though mate. I would be surprised if anyone was deliberately missing a Widnes match to watch a SL side on tele.
Fair enough there are plenty of Liverpool, Man U, Everton and possibly City supporters in the town and the premiership has a big draw amongst the kids but I don't see televised RL as being a reason for poor crowds.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:29 pm  

I for one will be using Sky+ to record the SL games then will watch it on returning from the match.. Supper + watchin Wire get a hammering = Priceless !!!!

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:51 pm  

In EnemyTerritory wrote:

Don't think that should be a problem though mate. I would be surprised if anyone was deliberately missing a Widnes match to watch a SL side on tele.

Two Widnes lads in work are and one of those was a season ticket holder in the North Stand. I won't be there myself and neither will my son who doesn't live in Runcorn these days and doesn't have a car.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:03 pm  

Doc Holliday wrote:

Two Widnes lads in work are and one of those was a season ticket holder in the North Stand. I won't be there myself and neither will my son who doesn't live in Runcorn these days and doesn't have a car.

are they wire in disguise?

Re: Vikings’ CEO rallying call : Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:14 pm  

Doc Holliday wrote:

Then he'd better hope people from areas like Childwall, Netherley, Aigburth, Woolton or Allerton don't find the TIW messageboard first or they'll do what my cousins' and their families did and head to Knowsley Road.

Well they must be ultra-sensitive around south Liverpool if one or two anonymous morons on a website forum,name calling scousers,puts them off going to a game.Not that you would ever find Liverpudlians calling Widnesians of course.

Re: Vikings’ CEO rallying call : Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:57 pm  

GSF wrote:

Well they must be ultra-sensitive around south Liverpool if one or two anonymous morons on a website forum,name calling scousers,puts them off going to a game.Not that you would ever find Liverpudlians calling Widnesians of course.

In several decades of drinking in Liverpool pubs, I can honestly say nobody seems to be bothered about Widnesians one was or another. They have no reason to be really. It's just another town in the area and of far less importance to them than the towns of Birkenhead, Huyton, Bootle or Wallasey where some of them might have relations.
Until I turned up to my first game I couldn't even have told anyone what colour Widnes played in, what the name of the ground was and could name only one player.

: Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:58 pm  

SNOT-HIM08 wrote:

are they wire in disguise?

No, they're Widnes lads. One even has a Lithuanian name and you can't get much more Widnes than that!

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:01 pm  

1977 wrote:

Great idea to play on Friday night,it's not like we have any competition with Stains and w**e playing live on sky. With such wonderful planning i am sure our gates will go through the roof this season.

Why Saints V Wire live on telly should be a counter attraction for Widnes fans God only knows.Just another excuse for people who wouldn't go anyway.