The team last night will bear no resemblance to the starting line up in SL.

The SL criteria was met by off-field and by virtue of beating Donny on the pitch.
Those are the rules , so Widnes are deemed worthy.
You may not agree , but that is a different matter.

One of the more truer posts ive seen on here in quite a while.

Dave Allen hit almost 40 tackles. Finnegan and Pickersgill both put in huge defence efforts too, if they're the only ones doing anything then they'll concede penalities due to fatigue.

No coincidence that we were 18-6 up then Finnegan and Pickersgill clash heads, go off and we end up 22-18 down, we can't adjust. Happened in the league game when Paddy went off, Thacks went FB and Craven on the wing and our shape goes to pot.

Several Leigh tries came from lazy defence and bunching, which Leigh took full advantage of, fair play to them they were excellent again.

One major concern was the 3 or 4 tries Leigh scored from close range, not one player got underneath the ball to try and stop it being grounded? I've seen under 10's do this. Only player to do this last night was Dean Gaskell in the first half, otherwise Leigh would have hit 60.

I half agree with, but then that's a massive shame if some of them actually think this.

We've put this squad together to compete in the top half of the Championship, hopefully top 4. So with extra training, few better players around them they should be looking to push for a SL chance.

I agree. And a few of them should not be on the team sheet when we go to Batley.

And also we need a leader on the field. We have not had one since Smithy went.

I think Leigh have it spot on playing Govin off the bench. Very clever and intelligent player that Widnes could do with.

after watching that game you plastic scousers have alot of work to do,we won the treble when we was in the championship and when we came up we found it very difficult so you lot are gonna find it alot worse than us i can tell you

You are still finding it difficult are you not??

Dont worry about Widnes mate, we'll be just fine, may find it difficult in the 1st season but if we can spend up to the cap then we will have nothing to worry about. Certainly dont see a threat from small clubs like Salford



Suggest you worry about trying to get more people through your turnstiles.

Dead right,he held on to the ball until he found the right player to put through a gap,good player.

As for our defence in our 20,countless times we loaded the right side,probably to stop Nanyn for we all know what he can do close to the line but it left the other wing exposed with Deano and Tyrer having 3 or 4 running at them.

I have to say to me a lot of the team look like they have tried to bulk up and it is hindering their fitness and stamina. Some of the players even look a liittle over weight. You showed what you can do to a team in the first 20 then you fell away. If you look at our team there are only two players who look remotely over compared to the rest. I think thats what is getting us results. A fitter team keeps its marbles through a tough game and will always prevail.