Agree with above, big fan of Cunningham throughout his youth days and he is started to show what he can do in limited gametime, Radford needs to trust him more and give him more time.

I'll take that. Shambolic attack in parts but good to back up for once and maybe get a body or two back, hopefully Ellis.

Pleased for the win but what a boring game.
It was like Hull and widness were mirror images in their style of play.
Lineham was the difference tonight neither team really looked like breaking the line so his 2 interception tries were good to see.
Not sure if Clarke or Carney said even with Ellis and Sneyd back we would still not trouble the top half of the table and also wells saying how often we still look lost and misread last tackle plays and after ten weeks it should no longer be an issue.
Hard to argue with all of that but still a relief to get through this one.

Agree about Cunningham showing good signs, but I also think he throws a few forward passes out when passing short straight from dummy half. Needs to tighten that up, he won't always get away with it unless he signs for Leeds.

Sneyd ( last tackles plays) and Ellis would make a big difference.

At half time i feared widnes would come back at us on the second half but they didn't have a clue how to break us down

Peformance wise, after the gruelling easter schedule and players we had left, the result was far more important than the peformance

Hopefully by the time we play hudds in two weeks we will have a few bodies back

Good to get a win but that was a dog of a game, the sooner the outdated practice of playing twice at Easter is binned the better! Same happens every year that the Easter Monday games and the round after are slow paced turgid games. The refereeing performance was also a shambles, but not a lot new there!

Still a few better performances from some of the more unsung members of the squad such as Cunningham and Rankin. Even though we will have some players back for the Hudds game we should stick with the players who have stepped up and performed this week. For example I don't want to see Yeaman automatically recalled when Naughton, Michaels, Talanoa and Lineham looked our best 3/4 line we've had this year.

Think that is still to be proven as for the first 7 rounds it didn't seem to make much difference.
But here's hoping.

Agreed.

Not exactly a classic tonight but I'll take the win and the two points.

I suspect the other games this weekend will be similarly poor affairs.

just got back, good win imo, 3 matches in 8 days is a lot and hull look shattered 2nd half but fair play they tackled themselves to a standstill, in attack we still lack spark but all in all a very good win, well played hull

your right but they are still 2/3 weeks away.
We are looking at the same 17 unfortuneately for the Sheffield game unless Sa is injured again but it looked more like cramp

Got bored of:
a) Sky comentators going on about how having rested 6 players Widnes would win the energy game (wrong!)
b) Sky comentators praising the of Messiah Brown and how wonderful he was
c) Sky comentators wishing Widnes would Score/win/etc..

Silverwood was rubbish..
Our attack was not good..
Our Kicking game was poor..
Out sixth tackle play was poor...

But very happy with the win.
Well done Tom Lineham - top Scorer in the league

Deserved MoM - didn't make a mistake all game.
Shaul looks very dangerous with the ball in broken play -
Defence was pretty solid - but we really need to think of an attacking strategy - as we don't appear to have one.

Agree. Encouraging, this back line. Let's not break it.

There is an obvious answer, isn't there?

Ellis back means Sa to centre,if Sa stays fit he will do some serious damage.

Turn of the sound and Listen to Blunderside !!! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!.... Just turn off the sound?

Sadly actually going is not an an option on Friday night as I am usually working Late or Have my Boys and 6 is not really a good age to do a 300 mile round trip...

A fit Sa is our best centre by a long way.IMO.

yep sa looked good tonight, looked fine at the end also,

Its the 2 points that matter. It was essential we win tonight and we did.

Plenty of effort and commitment from the players but also more than a few mistakes and some poor decision making and we still don't look convincing in attack.

Some of our tries were a bit lucky but at least we took the chances.

Margin could have been greater but for poor refereeing.

Lots of work to do but something to build on and cause for optimism when we get some players back.

I'd look to replace Michaels with Sa.

A win was the most important thing tonight. They rested a few Monday but to counter that they were down on interchanges. Scrappy game not helped at all by shocking policing of the 10 by Silverwood.

Moving on to Sheffield I'd definitely look to rest Minichiello & Pryce by bringing in Abdull & Turgut. Not sure we have much more movement than that.

Looked good in the second row. Let's not break it.



Yeaman has, or should I say, [ishould[/i have a fight on his hands to get back in. Naughty and Tally looking comfortable together.

i really hope if everybody fit yeaman no where near the team unless injuries bite

Yeah - he has no place in the aside atm...

Ugly win , 2 points in the bag , Hopefully no more injuries . Take a bow Tom Lineham .