The game against Leigh is a massive game for you to state your Super league Intentions. Leigh are at best a very good championship side, nowhere near super league level. A good performance tonight will see how much re-building you will have to do. I think you are well short and reckon it will take you 3 years to get an average side capable of Super league.
Good luck anyway.

We have very few Super League standard players. Crap thread.

Super League..? You're having a laugh....?

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Even before this game we were under no illusions about how much we had to build for super league. Leigh are a very good attacking side who outclassed us tonight and fully deserved the win.

We have ten months to build a strong team and hopefully turn up to super league with a competitive side.

It will take you ten years to get a decent side. You should have a team full of academy players , not has beens like Sculthorpe. You will be the whipping boys of SL.
Where were all the suppoters, like a shed full of mice. Youm made more noise when you had the licence granted. Where were they all today.

They've three years to prove their status, not one. Next season will be crap for Widnes, the transfer system is against them there, the following two will show whether they deserve to be there on not.

BTW though, who are your "Superleague standard players"? Given the night off I assume?

Any team that comes up has basically a whole new side after a couple of seasons. Anything we do this year is largely irrelevant. Even if we were ripping the league apart that would still be true.

I stand by:

Thackeray
Allen
Heckenberg (dropped???)
Kavanagh

at least.

So you need to get rid of the other dozen donkeys? Fair enough.
Though I'm not sure I'd agree about Thackeray? We'll see, I've no doubt he'll be one of the few to keep his contract.

See the first part of my post for the rest though

I'd imagine so. I reckon we've got a handful who are still young enough to maybe get a ticket to the SL train too though.

Maybe add Flynn and Craven to this list? They have the potential to develop into superleague players with the right coaching.

The widnes fans seem to rate thackray, maybe he just doesn't perform against leigh? He seems to have all the attributes needed to be a good quality player, but just doesn't seem to apply himself or have the nouse? Kavanagh looked useful, although varkulis looked the player hardest to stop in the pack, wasnt he a centre at one time? if i was in charge, macgraff, kavanagh, pickersgill, i'anson and tyrer would make the SL squad, but i don't think any of them would be first choice initially.

OK, so keep the players and get rid of the coach then? Betts obviously can't coach them to a good enough level of either fitness or skills?

Cant fault the Widnes speccies who came to Leigh tonite they gave there team plenty of vocal support even when they where well behind , I,m sure with a input of several class players Widnes will become a decent side over the next few years its surprizing what a couple of new players
with talent can bring to a team just look at Hull KR since Dobson got injured they hardly won owt
Keep the Faith with speccies like Widnes have you cant go wrong things will improve over the next couple o years.. All the Best in SL
A very happy Leyther..

This a silly thread as this be a totally different team with 1.6 million to spend, and buy some off the team going down.I think alot goes down to bad coaching.Thackeray never a fullback,Gerrard not a standoff,and Lunt is much better than Netherton, but plays this fat slow machine.Ropati should be replaced by Ford and why was Hecky and Grady not playing?Basically players ill disciplined,penalties,sets,composure and a leader is required.Noble or Kear to come as coach.

Aye, good support for you men tonight. A good 700 tonight, which is great for a thursday night Championship TV game. Vocal early on but obviously quiet later on. Double what anyone else in this league would have brought.



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one northern rail cup win in 2009 that ticked your super league box!!!feel sorry for the likes of leigh,fax and barrow!!

Not nearly as sorry as we all feel for your family.

Bed time for this idiot.Does this ginger support Salford.

Your right the team that played tonight wont have more than three names in it next year (and Dave Allen shouldnt be one of them he has the heart of a pea and when the going gets tough he gets going).
Get rid of the uselesss coaching staff bring in an experienced SL coach and with 1.6M£ to spend you'll do OK not spectacular for the first couple of years but after that all should come good, good luck.

Ropati? Id have him in my team all day every day. What is it about Widnes and good centres, can we expect Ropati to be plying at prop later in the season.

What do you do to them.

Some more free money off the bookies again last night due to them underestimating how bad Widnes are. To be fair though Leigh looked very good and i fear when they play us it will be a cricket score as if Sheffields pack can totally dominate us then Leighs will trample over us. I used to take the mickey out of Leigh fans when they said they have been saying they have the best pack in the league for years as they clearly didnt. This season though they actually probably have. In all honesty i dont think their backs are that great in fact id have Faxs backs over theirs but with that pack on a roll its easy to see why they will dominate a lot of teams this season.

Don't kid yourself about Leigh being a 'very good attacking side.' Like yourselves they wouldn't win a single Super League game in a season. The fact that they took you to the cleaners last night sums up what a joke your inclusion in SL is.

Cringing for the way rugby league must be being percieved by other sports.

You're spot on. Us, a good attacking side - you don't know the half of it, we're only averaging 46 points a game. Not good enough.

It really irks me, when people dismiss Championship sides, as not good enough for SL.

Please answer me one question - if your team (whoever they are) were in the Championship, how many SL quality players could you afford, on a cap of £300k?

Point being, we have no need to be a good SL team because we are not one, we can only beat what is put in front of us!