Sweepstake time

I predict we score 82....

keeping them to myself mate

If you hadn't stopped playing after 50 minutes you could well have got your 82.

An easier win than I expected but I hope we don't carry the performance in the last half hour into next week other wise we could be in for a good hiding.

Solid first half against a very loose widnes, but poor that we let brown score on half time. Needed the win and wasn't in doubt after the first half but a couple of lapses gave widnes some easy points. Mcshane and burrows best of the players I think. On to Warrington next week then, big game!!

Solid first half against a very loose widnes, but poor that we let brown score on half time. Needed the win and wasn't in doubt after the first half but a couple of lapses gave widnes some easy points. Mcshane and burrows best of the players I think. On to Warrington next week then, big game!!

Obviously a bit disappointing to concede that many points towards the end but a refreshing change to have a game wrapped up by half time. The first time the back 5 have all lined up together and all scored, hopefully we'll start to see these guys really rack up the tries in the remainder of the year.

Plenty of positives especially from Sutcliffe ,Burrow ,Mcshane and Hardaker with ball in hand.
Defence remains a problem but saying that at least 3 of their tries were 1 on 1 misses rather than a structural problem and were avoidable.
Watkins scored a good try and it was good to see young Foster get some gametime who hit hard in defence and added some enthusiasm.
The less said about Alibert the better both sides were left scratching their heads on numerous occasions.

a great performance under the circumstance by the boys today,although we did let the scoreline even out late on but i thought that we looked intent on putting this game to bed early on
a great day all round as we had a lovely sunday lunch in widnes too

A good win.clocked off for a spell in the second half but game was won by that time.

Warrington away up next, will be tricky but hopefully we can put on a good show.

After that game we have Wakey x2,London,Salford,Hull KR and Catalans before finishing the season at Wigan.Plenty of points to be had there so if any of the top 3 take their eye off the ball with the cup run etc.. we could be in a good position to pounce.

A truly dire advert for Super League and the way the game is being run, Widnes were catastrophic and the fact Leeds weren't much better for 50 mins tells its own story.

For the first time I am starting to worry about where this wonderful sport is heading.

Great - why not starting following another sport?

We'll retain your memory on here by periodically posting absolutely tripe and slagging off the coach

Ok, seeing a game like that brings credibility in untold amounts then!!

Take off the blue and amber specs and open your mind, being as narrow as you portray cannot be healthy!!

The sport may well end up paying a calamitous price for this shambolic licensed, 14 team, top 8 play-off structure when it was obvious way back in 2008 there weren't enough resources and talent to provide a legitimate and competitive 12 team competition, never mind the utter joke of a 14 team one! How to reward mediocrity, render the vast majority of the season as utterly meaningless and screw the game completely in one easy lesson...



One of the most enthusiastic advocates of that structure knew he could count on an unrivalled degree of idiocy among his own customer base once he'd helped guarantee his club got to coast along for 4 more SL tag sessions a season against newly-provided whipping boy SL rabble. Such idiocy among the customer base has matured to such an unquestioning level of obsequiousness nowadays that a 52-36 victory is greeted as [i"a great performance... a refreshing change... a good win... solid... plenty of positives"[/i, etc.

Upcoming games against Wakefield, Salford and London ought to have SPECIAL OCCASION written all over them already.

Agreed, the worrying part for me is the ever growing dependency across SL for over the hill UK players, Morley and Meli to Salford is truly horrific, I'm not doubting your view that the pool of talent is too small to sustain 14 teams, the more concerning is with this structure, with this endemic lack of strategic vision we will never know!!

It's a sad state for the game I love.

Oh.

Outstanding contribution, dynamic intelligence shines through.

Yawn same s*** different day

Then instead of throwing around silly responses. do what grown ups do, offer a counter argument...

Hey........you might enjoy it!!

You may have a point about bottom dwelling teams but what exactly do you want "Super League and the way the game is being run" to to do about Leeds?

Do grown ups make up childish user names and post petty comments?

There are some real concerns about the lack of competitiveness in some games and the high score lines, something I hope is addressed in the potential restructuring of the league's. Trying though to gain some credibility and pointing the finger at others when it doesn't come is hypocritical when you carry on as you do.

Last time I checked, not only were the bottom dwelling teams rewarded points for their mediocrity in SL, but so were Leeds and the rest. So how about a game being structured in order that mediocrity is discouraged? A 12 team SL, top 5 play-off system and return of P&R would be a start.

12 is 2 too many IMO, but the commerical tail wags the dog.

Ten teams will concentrate your best 200 players into the competition, 150 or so of which would then be eligible for the national team.

Games like the recent London-Salford one have no place in an elite competition. Likewise games where one side can effectively clock off after 50 minutes with the job done.

OR Just cut it off at 12 and axe this promotion and relegation just like the NRL, focus on building a solid competitive 12 team league without the threat of relegation. (Or cur to ten with the view to bring in two current or new teams over the next 3 - 5 yrs based on merit and business support - then cut it off)

Create a better revenue stream for the Championship and build this again to be a more solid competition. Good players wil make the transition up from the Championship.

Dual registration could actually be a good and bad thing depending on how it is used, but if the SL doesn't bring back Academy system then the Chanpionship has to look like the Toyota Cup in the NRL and you should force the hann to partner each club with another.......

All options will some people off but rather than ths YO YO diet we are having with league structure, licence's and relegation and promotion, make a sensible decision and focus the energy.....

because we didn't see mediocrity when we tried a 12 team P+R league before?