Re: Widnes : Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:17 pm  

Beaujangles wrote:

I already don't believe we will get top three this season,lots of negatives unravelling at this early stage.Have to be thinking this is a must win already and then the reliance on the dreaded DR is effective over the course of the season.I see Matty Gee won't feature Till early April at least...so much for sitting out the friendlies as a precaution !

I expect DR to kick in after CC Round 4.
Besides Featherstone and Leigh, all semi-pro teams will take points off each other. Sunday will be a test of attitude and basic application. I actually expect Fax to come through Sunday with flying colours. Widnes need to adapt to heavy ground.
No ex players to lift their team that extra bit neither.

Fax by 18 in my opinion.

Re: Widnes : Wed Feb 09, 2022 4:29 pm  

Must admit I was disappointed to hear matty gee won’t be available to late March at the earliest, it’ll be interesting to see how our forwards hold up against there’s , Tyler Dupree won young championship player of the year last year and he’s a local lad so it’ll be see how he goes , looks like rain on Saturday so might be another forward battle .

Re: Widnes : Thu Feb 10, 2022 2:19 pm  

Really looking forward to this one. Great start by widnes but London are not up to the challenge i thought they were, as you lot found out. We've swapped Jewitt, Matt Crook and Paul Clough type SL old heads for some solid championship players and look a lot fitter. We can score tries for fun but we all know Halifax will put up a very tough challenge and i can see it being a close game

Always enjoyed Halifax away and hopefully we bring a good following. Getting the train to Manchester Oxford Rd, walking to Manchester Victoria, Bus to Rochdale and then a direct train to Halifax, the journey will hopefully be worth it. Any recommendations on pubs around the ground or where the away fans normally gather?

Re: Widnes : Thu Feb 10, 2022 3:17 pm  

Still no Jack Owens and Ste Tyrer either, big loss but other lads have stepped up very well

Re: Widnes : Thu Feb 10, 2022 4:42 pm  

Pats plastic pitch wrote: Really looking forward to this one. Great start by widnes but London are not up to the challenge i thought they were, as you lot found out. We've swapped Jewitt, Matt Crook and Paul Clough type SL old heads for some solid championship players and look a lot fitter. We can score tries for fun but we all know Halifax will put up a very tough challenge and i can see it being a close game Always enjoyed Halifax away and hopefully we bring a good following. Getting the train to Manchester Oxford Rd, walking to Manchester Victoria, Bus to Rochdale and then a direct train to Halifax, the journey will hopefully be worth it. Any recommendations on pubs around the ground or where the away fans normally gather? There’s a pub call the three pigeons on the way to the ground, it serves traditional ales , turn left out of the train station head towards the shay it’s roughly 1/4 to 1/2 a mile and very close to the stadium. Alternatively depending on your timescales and preference there’s the piece hall which has a variety of coffee and bars which serve alcohol, that’s straight up from the train station about 200 yards turn right , the piece hall is still within half a mile of the ground. https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractio ... gland.html https://www.thepiecehall.co.uk/

Pats plastic pitch wrote: Really looking forward to this one. Great start by widnes but London are not up to the challenge i thought they were, as you lot found out. We've swapped Jewitt, Matt Crook and Paul Clough type SL old heads for some solid championship players and look a lot fitter. We can score tries for fun but we all know Halifax will put up a very tough challenge and i can see it being a close game Always enjoyed Halifax away and hopefully we bring a good following. Getting the train to Manchester Oxford Rd, walking to Manchester Victoria, Bus to Rochdale and then a direct train to Halifax, the journey will hopefully be worth it. Any recommendations on pubs around the ground or where the away fans normally gather? There’s a pub call the three pigeons on the way to the ground, it serves traditional ales , turn left out of the train station head towards the shay it’s roughly 1/4 to 1/2 a mile and very close to the stadium. Alternatively depending on your timescales and preference there’s the piece hall which has a variety of coffee and bars which serve alcohol, that’s straight up from the train station about 200 yards turn right , the piece hall is still within half a mile of the ground. https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractio ... gland.html https://www.thepiecehall.co.uk/

Re: Widnes : Fri Feb 11, 2022 3:40 pm  

So the squads out and it is unchanged from last week i may be in a minority on this but i was hoping to see Goulding and Hewitt from huddersfield this week. I would expect the same side as last week it does seem like wood is struggling with is bicep so we might get a change there even though he is in the squad. I will go for a fax win 23-16. And now Worthington as been ruled out for the next 4 months it seems we are getting all our injury's early doors this season.

Re: Widnes : Fri Feb 11, 2022 4:12 pm  

terry silver wrote:

So the squads out and it is unchanged from last week i may be in a minority on this but i was hoping to see Goulding and Hewitt from huddersfield this week. I would expect the same side as last week it does seem like wood is struggling with is bicep so we might get a change there even though he is in the squad. I will go for a fax win 23-16. And now Worthington as been ruled out for the next 4 months it seems we are getting all our injury's early doors this season.

Yeah Worthington is a huge loss especially with only 2 real centres in our squad. Grix clearly must not have wanted to bring Butler in though and that goes along with what Ive heard people say Grix thinks about him.

Re: Widnes : Fri Feb 11, 2022 4:46 pm  

I think if there’s any doubt about Kyle woods injury I would leave him out and bring jouffret in , fax seem to be having some terrible luck with injuries at the moment and we don’t need anymore . I would imagine he’ll play the same players as last week then possibly bring walmsey back in for the Workington game . Barber and arundal are pretty sound defensively and dangerous close to the line . The weather forecast looks dreadful again so it’ll be a war of attrition, the gameplan has to be executed like the last 20 mins of the London game , good kicking game and keep them in their half with some kicks in behind as from what I’ve seen in the highlights of the Widnes game they have conceded a few tries like that . If we give penalties away and try n force it we will lose , Aston and Keyes are starting to click so hopefully they can cause the Widnes defence some problems.

Re: Widnes : Fri Feb 11, 2022 6:46 pm  

Discipline is always key and it’s been a weakness of ours with a number of refs and Jack Smith in the past has pulled us big time.
Our fault no excuses but if we cross the line we’ll get pinged every time.
Fax be warned.

Re: Widnes : Sun Feb 13, 2022 7:55 am  

It seems we have gone from 3rd favs to this been a game that most people expect us to lose.We might get to see how much of it is Widnes been a good side compared to playing weak opposition and also how much people are not realy seeing batley as a good team and that loss as one that shouldn't have happened.

I would love to see this game on a dry pitch as I think its a totally different game, my worry today as always in conditions like this is that our forwards are not going to be big enough to wear down the opposition.