We desperately needed those 2 points tonight so job done.

Defended well I thought on the whole but our last tackle plays were shambolic. I lost count of the number of 20 metre restarts they got. houghton at fault on a few by taking the wrong option on the final tackle. We looked much better when cunningham came on. Difficult to be too critical though after a tough easter period with a few important players out. I thought paea was excellent again tonight

Two hookers on the bench and we still play Houghton for 60 minutes without a break. Same with Sa, hasn't played for a few weeks, but us played for too long and starts to looked tired.

sa was out on his feet way before he was taken off

Good, solid and deserved win. Best sliding defence I've seen from us in a long time - despite being a side that that use width Widnes never got around us really. Even more surprising given they must have been much fresher than us. Shame we couldn't convert at least one of the breaks we made down our right but all in all, especially with the joke decisions, a good two points. Plenty to work on as ever but our right side in particular looked decent.

Thought Michaels went OK - at least as good as Yeaman. His shirt to lose IMO.

Would like to see Sa in the centre soon as possible. Sa n mini going at the opposition left will take a toll. Shame we've seen so little of it.
Also how hard is Sa. To play like that with that physicality when you've had a facture of your back. Seems every time he does play he leaves a man on the floor with either attack or defence. Adds some mean to us.

Only just got in and seen the result, well done to the players and coach on extracting a win at the end of an exhausting period..win ugly, win with flair..I don't rightly care as a win is a win.
Would I prefer we play champagne rugby, yes, but a tick in the W column is much more valuable than a fighting loss, let's hope we can somehow improve the attack and put a decent run of wins together, a loss next week and we are back to square one.

Cunningham showed up well I though. Defence was good it's just attack in the final twenty . Been a big admirer of Houghton from his junior days but noticed on a number of occasions in their twenty he just passed to the nearest Man instead of going to Pryce or Rankin who werere set up either side with options.Perhaps they need to shout louder. I also think we seem to want to score off every set. We don't seem to build pressure by forcing drop outs. The commitment can't be faulted though. Great effort.
The answer is we get an attack coach to assist Radford.
As for Kevin Brown and crew can Betts rest them every time before they play us please.

Glad for the victory and effort but in order to become a better side some basic fundamentals need sorting. Defensive line speed was way too slow all game giving Widnes the opportunity to make way too many easy yards. Attack again plenty of effort but was very one dimensional - we need a specialist attacking coach to come in asap. Thought Houghton did pretty well and Cunningham not so good if im honest. I like Pryce but Rankin isnt a half back imo but does a commendable job standing in for Sneyd. Still a win is a win and id much rather an unattractive win then a sparkling loss. We have a real chance to build some momentum now with the Sheffield and Wakey games coming up and both are must wins

Wakefield game is postponed due to the Cup game, the next three are Sheffield, Huddersfield (H), Salford (H). After that it's a visit to Warrington, currently struggling. Your point still stands, though. Need to get a run going as we enter the mid point of the first phase of the season.

We definitely need to do something to improve the attack and quickly, If we'd managed to score one more try (and goal) in every game this season we'd be 2nd in the league on 15 points.

Don't know if you've seen Lineham's MOM interview on Sky, but he mentions we had identified Widnes' love of moving the ball wide and changed our defensive tactics to deal with it. Those interceptions were quite deliberate as well. Whisper it softly, but I think Radford out-coached Betts.

....and if my uncle was a woman he/she would be my aunt.

Can he/she coach attack?

IMO thought Cunningham looked very good last night. Like to see him get more game time.

Lets get something right , This Widnes side rested 6 players for this game, this side put 30 on Warrington ,drew with Wigan, beat Rovers with 6 players out including Brown met a Fc side without Sneyd,Ellis, Watts ,green,yeaman,Hadley and whiting scored one good try and one which should not have been and still fans are having a dig at the coach and players? " Why criticise the defence? I sometimes wonder what planet some fans are on. From the start you could see it was going to be a hard task for fc with a very poor performance from Silverwood who gave Fc nothing and to say the 10 was skinny was a understatement .again a win has stuck in the throats of many so called fans and even if we had won by 30 still would not give any credit to the coach or players.

You could also say that widnes gained all of those wins/draws at home on their synthetic pitch and have only won 2 away games in the last 12 months - both against the sides relegated last season. You could also say that over half their team had a disrupted week due to air traffic control problems in France.

All for the sake of balance of course.

Agree about silverwood though. He turned what was always likely to be a low quality game into a disorganised bore fest

I had you down to scrape a win at 18-10 and was pretty close, I got the scrape a win part right lol.

I think the vast majority of comments have been positive and there has been no undue criticism of the players. It was a good result but lets not get carried away by the quality of the performance. All true fans will be happy with the win and the 2 points but will admit there is much to be done yet to turn this into a decent season. At least now there is hope for the future.

Who's a clever boy .

for me hokey there are some on here who will never be happy, you have only to read the match comments, saying that i agree with diogenes we have to kick on and get on a roll, for now radford will get my full backing, COYH

On second thoughts maybe not full but nearly lol,

rovers not doing bad on the scraped wins at home currently

Funnily enough Jake ive been getting most of our results wrong. And nothing wrong with winning when your not playing well by the way

The vocal backing of a vociferous home crowd has obviously helped to get the team over the winning line Jake. Better that than a string of close losses in a soulless library to be honest.