good effort improvement continues, well done fev
If we have come out of this game free of injuries, our next three league game s- home to London and Sheffield and away to Bradford - are winnable on this form.
What a change from the wondering where our next win would come from after some of our earlier performances. Well done to the coach and the players for turning things around. Just hope they can maintain this form and effort.
gutted in the end there. Some brain farts cost us in the end and a poor 10 kins
proud they didn’t give in at 0-16 like some may have can’t let this dishearten us for the next few games
Much better against a good side for the first time this season. Some one said they had a weakened side so exactly who was missing? Grady & Cook just had to pass to the nearest man and we had an overlap both times. I thought the referee gave us nothing all game & did not want to penalise Featherstone when he should have done. That tackle on Farnworth should have gone on report. Great effort & grit after an awful start. My only fear is will we have enough energy left for the London game after all that effort today in testing conditions? Thought Smith was immense defensively but not offering a lot in attack. We are definitely improving just need to pick the right pass & show more composure. They play at 80 miles an hour when just need to slow it down at times. Looking forward to the next game greatly.
Good effort that. Fev beat teams 50/60 every week and but for a couple of silly decisions from forwards we’d have beaten them. Progress is being made and we should now look forward to competing with these top sides each week and looking to finish in the play offs.
dane chisolm, dale ferguson and a couple more fwds i think
The best team lost, in my view. With a little more composure in the last 10 minutes we would have pulled off an extraordinary victory, which as usual, was made most unlikely by what can only be described as a one-sided refereeing display. We were on the back foot for the whole of the first quarter, had a try disallowed for a fwd pass whilst two of their first 4 were awarded for exactly the same thing, and other than 2 obvious penalties in the full 80 minutes, were awarded absolutely nothing in terms of 50/50 decisions by an official who is a Yorkshireman and who resides precisely 3.7 miles away from Featherstone in Normanton!!! Gone seem to be the days when Lancashire referees went over into Yorkshire with a Lancashire team and vice versa. Widnes are despised by the RFL, and it shows every time I watch us play in Yorkshire....even our great sides in the 70's and 80's got nothing off the officials, which makes our success over these periods all the more incredible. As you will see from Mr THALER's Twitter account, he had admiration from a former referee, Mr WH THOMPSON - and we all know what he did to the Widnes sides of the 70's and 80's on the pitch......exactly the same thing as THALER did today!!!!!!
We should however, be proud of that display, because the wider picture is that this team has gone to the second best team in this league and should have won despite all of the foregoing! Grady and Cook's fluffed chances at the end could have forced an incredible win against all the odds - and I for one am very proud of but bitterly disappointed for the lads. With a fair crack of the whip we would have won by at least 12 there today.
I’ve never been sold on Jake spedding but today I thought he was excellent. Really stepped up
first part up, more to follow, if u want to check out parts of the game
Haler is not fit to ref at championship level, some of his decisions were comical
apparantly he is going to ref in RU
goodbye
Give over Erik - Wouldnt matter if he lived in a house on Post Office Road Mr Thaler is not bent. We lost it ourselves. No excuses. Well played lads.
Give over Erik – Wouldnt matter if he lived in a house on Post Office Road Mr Thaler is not bent. We lost it ourselves. No excuses. Well played lads.
Very amusing, near to the knuckle
Widnes are despised by the RFL, and it shows every time I watch us play in Yorkshire….even our great sides in the 70’s and 80’s got nothing off the officials, which makes our success over these periods all the more incredible. As you will see from Mr THALER’s Twitter account, he had admiration from a former referee, Mr WH THOMPSON – and we all know what he did to the Widnes sides of the 70’s and 80’s on the pitch……exactly the same thing as THALER did today.
Been a myth for a long time this and that's all it is, a myth.
We lost the game through a terrible 10 mins and not taking 2 walk ins
However the first half Thaler treated the game like a SL standard and it isn’t. Should of been a champ ref for 2 champ teams. Never been a fan of Thaler as a ref in general for any team always likes to make it about him
Think the pen ahead of their 1st try was dubious, never been a fan of him as a ref, he was rubbish years ago when we were in the Champo and he hasn't improved.
That being said, we were too easy to get through in the first quarter.
Many more positives to take though, which is more than can be said for many previous away trips!