I thought with a fair crack of the whip Fax could have been a whole lot closer to Widnes. I usually stand in the South Stand but were in the East stand yesterday and the offsides were really bad. If anything I thought we were far too disciplined getting back to the ref because as we saw it was ok to stand way offside in nearly every tackle without any danger of getting penalized.
Frustratingly though the ref found it in his heart to award us a penalty with 3 minutes to go for Widnes not been stood square. A few more decisions like that early in the second half when we needed them and deserved them more and it would have been interesting.
Like people have said the penalty awarded for the dropped ball was massive. If you are going to run in with the ball instead of your arm then theres a good chance of it popping out like it did but luckily for Widnes they had a very forgiving linesman on this occasion.
I think we can take a lot of heart in that Widnes didnt make a clean break all the game which shows out defence did a sterling job but in the end fitness and that bit of extra class in Brown made all the difference.