Widnes game : Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:35 pm  

Are any of you making it to The Halton Stadium this Thursday? Bad night being on a Thursday but it would be good to see as many of you as possible over here.

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:36 pm  

Got a feeling some of the English-based Catalans fans might go along?

: Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:02 pm  

Best Wishes to Toulouse for the season , enjoy tomorrow hopefully not too much.

Widnes by 16 .

The Vicar

First estimations from the bookies : Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:53 pm  

The first estimations from the bookies are:
Widnes wins: 82.8%
Toulouse wins: 14.0%
Draw: 3.2%

They don't give much chance to Toulouse . I hope they will lose some money Thursday night

Predicting the score : Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:35 pm  

The best odds give these estimations:


Widnes.40+.......7.55% ********
Widnes.31-40....9.71% **********
Widnes.21-30...15.80% *****************
Widnes.11-20...24.71% *************************
Widnes.1-10....19.42% *******************
Draw..................1.66% **
Toulouse.1-10..12.36% ************
Toulouse.11-20..6.80% *******
Toulouse.20+....2.00% **

Your estimation is spot on Vicar!

: Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:40 pm  

The Vicar of Widnes wrote:

Best Wishes to Toulouse for the season , enjoy tomorrow hopefully not too much.

Widnes by 16 .

The Vicar

I see Widnes doing better than that, new coach to impress and TO are not up to speed yet. Even without that TO are massive underdogs with Widnes being one of the front-runners of the Championship.

A bit of walk from Brum for me. Shocked to see that it i on TV though ...

: Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:26 pm  

70 - 0 bad start...

: Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:17 pm  

Try to take the positives out of that game........ ok we're done

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:55 am  

I must say you are going to have a long season based on the start so far.
I know you have not played much together, but unfortunately the team look like amatuers. I think there was plenty of effort and desire, but if Eric Anselme is the Star Player, my experience in seeing him struggle in the Leeds reserves most of last season, he lacked basic positioning in defence, and although a nice lad, he is not a leader at all, and someone to inspire the young inexperienced players you have at this level.
The half back pairing offered very little in attack, the number 7 was poor in execution of anything, and without this from the halves, it is difficult to see where your wins will come from. I could be proved wrong but I doubt it. sorry

: Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:30 am  

belgianxiii wrote:

I see Widnes doing better than that

... and they did.

TO have had one proper game before the start of the season, not the friendlies and NRC games the others have had. Add to this the fact that Widnes is a top side looking to impress a new coach and you shouldn't be surprised by the result.

I reckon the aim for TO will be not to be in the relegation zone at the end of the year. Totally doable. Would be great for non-SL RL if they didn't make it to a franchise next round, remaining where they are and improving the current comp.