I worry about us against the stronger teams in the division. In the forwards mainly and in the front row in particular.
I think they may come right through or over the Top of us
I watched the Saints Leigh friendly and although ours was a friendly and theirs also I don't think we are close. We have less than 140 appearances at prop in the team and no genuine prop over 24.
We have made some decent signings and our spine is good 1 Owens, 6 Craven 7 Smith 9 Fozzard.
Our squad is small . I think we will need luck with injuries and luck ( and or judgement ) with loans.
Fingers crossed
Thats a fair point, i think we can compete with the likes of Halifax and Bradford if were lucky with injuries etc as the other 2 appear to be able spend money we can’t compete with.
@mckeeverviking I knew it was just wanted someone to confirm it. Hardly ‘crocked’ when the kid is recovering from this injury but is running and is just not being risked yet.
shows how idiotic some opinions are when they’re calling him crocked because he’s had 1 major injury. Let him at least come back in a few games time and if he gets injured over and over again then he can be called crocked
The signing was a risk no doubt about it but the lad needs to be at least given a chance to show what he can do
His loan period seems to be up - has the grapevine said anything about his staying for a longer period or have we now lost him?
He has played well this time, hard agressive running, showing no signs of his "penalty machine" reputation.
His loan period seems to be up - has the grapevine said anything about his staying for a longer period or have we now lost him?
He has played well this time, hard agressive running, showing no signs of his "penalty machine" reputation.
To be honest Sunny with SL only kicking off this weekend i cant see wire being in need of him yet, maybe after an other months extension it might be different. So I'm expecting him to stay for at least another month, but I've not heard anything else to date.
I didn’t like the fact he came in over some of our players - tilleke in particular
however he has played well and was great last sunday
reading the injury updates, Grady (prop?) and lezy - deffo prop are not available for a few weeks mean we could do with the loan being extended for another month
big game this week at fax, they will be up for it, prop wise we are waiting on farnworth back, baker ok,Grady not yet,lezy not yet, Dupree yes, tilleke yes
so without Dupree we may be short
Hopefully extend for another month until at least Grady, Farnworth and lezy are fit again. Love Doro hard running and like to keep him for sure.
He’s in the squad for Sunday.
Especially need him with Bent and Farnworth both out injured.
He’s in the squad for Sunday.
Especially need him with Bent and Farnworth both out injured.
Good still to have him, whilst the loan system can be unsatisfactory, if it helps keep up our fit prop numbers then great, especially as Halifax will be a tough nut to crack!
Stinks of de ja vu season not started ye we need a loan signing and the same guy from the same club who crunchie on us last season. The guy is a penalty machine and i would rather run with what we have.
This hasn't aged well Mick! 😬
Doro was superb today. And it doesn't seem that there will be a repeat of last year.
I guess we've just got to accept that we are where we are, the season has started, the squad seems much better than last year, we are probably doing much better than most thought, myself included (helped by our first two fixtures, no doubt). Doro seems to be helping us on a much better basis than last year, who knows he may fancy joining us if it continues to work out!
At the end of the game when the players came over to the fans and a chant of "Widnes, Widnes" went up he was joining in, seems to be happy to be a Viking at the moment
I was very uncertain when the loan was first made but it has gone well. He had a great influence on the result today. He seems to have matured from last year as he has cut out the rash penalties. Us supporters did not know at the time that Grady & Nzoungo were still injured & that is obviously why Finnegan sought him out.