I too will be watching next season - but prefer to be in the championship where we may be competitive
let the frauds go to the promised land and see what happens to them
total farce
We should be aiming to be in the Top 3 next year. Not being in the Play-Offs would be outright failure given 3 of the stronger teams will be going up.
On Super League, we could absolutely make a fist of it. But I think history shows you make a better fist of it when you go up with momentum having been successful a la 2001 as opposed to the 2011 version.
Agree with top 3 finish - if it true about fev and fax, if they still in the league they will be on a shoestring.
york, Toulouse and probably bradfraud and London gone.
so the big players left are Oldham and ?
assuming salfraud gone or a phoenix club of course
Just add to my previous comment about Hamilton bodging our details ....I think I'm correct in saying if all else falls into place there'll be a dramatic increase in our central funding...pretty sure we lost 15/20k just on the messed up grading submission....
Management of the sport as a whole can't genuinely be achieved by a committee manned by members with direct club affiliations.
Our score was 9.39 and 19th overall.
A worrying part of the clubs statement “While the headline figure may appear to show a modest increase, it’s important to add context. If assessed under the 2024 grading pillars, our score would rise to 12.24 – a much more accurate reflection of the progress and development seen across the club and through the work of the Viking Sports Foundation”
It’s irrelevant what our score would be under the 2024 grading criteria. We were being assessed on the 2025 grading criteria!
Really poor, again
No Hamilton to blame this year so now we saying it's the years fault !!! Did kier starmer write that
we are obviously not grasping or can't pay for changes that need making and the increase this year only gets us back to Hamilton mistake so we haven't moved forward in 2 years not good
Our score was 9.39 and 19th overall.
A worrying part of the clubs statement “While the headline figure may appear to show a modest increase, it’s important to add context. If assessed under the 2024 grading pillars, our score would rise to 12.24 – a much more accurate reflection of the progress and development seen across the club and through the work of the Viking Sports Foundation”
It’s irrelevant what our score would be under the 2024 grading criteria. We were being assessed on the 2025 grading criteria!
Really poor, again
Sadly, I have to agree. The old criteria are utterly meaningless and to bring them up is a classic 'but, but, but..' response. In addition, to be ranked behind Barrow and Fev is a complete failure of management I'm afraid.
One thing is also abundantly clear - playing in a rented stadium is an absolute anchor round our neck.
How can we be pleased with 19th place below Featherstone and Barrow? Around 16th place seemed to be the objective. Our IMG position is the same as our position on the league ladder.
While we don't own our own stadium, unless we get someone coming in with serious money behind them I don't think we will ever break into the top 12 on the IMG criteria. We have had 2 years now and are way off.
Owning your own ground is 0.25 points, hardly a game changer. We must be desperately poor in other areas.
Yeah a very disappointing grading for me
Well we remain at 19th in the final published IMG gradings. The club appear fairly satisfied going on their comments which surprises me. I am surprised Barrow are above us.
Monday at the forum the answer will be Tim holmes has been brought in to solve this so plz buy your season tickets for another year
if you look at the gradings soon there'll be no grade b in super league then it's a closed shop and we ll be on the outside the pressure is now onto be successful in the championship playoffs alone doesn't cut it
@vikingfox71 100% agree no real progression in two years whoever attends on Monday we need to ensure the club are held to account both on and off the field and we aren't fooled by the sound bites they will no doubt produce to try gloss over a really disappointing outcome.
As it stands our support isn't contributing towards getting us anywhere closer to the fans ambition so will undoubtedly lead to a further lapse in fan base as widnes fans are ambitious and want to progress
As a side note to show how ridiculous this all is salfords financial score went up in 2025 !!
that's how ridiculous this is