Where are all the Widnes fans on their forum?

A great start to their season, top of the league, big game tomorrow night against local rivals and their forum is dead. Literally!

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Love to go and read the Widnes forum but I get a website safety alert. Warning: Trouble ahead Whoa! Are you sure you want to go there? www.wissl.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=14&am... may be risky to visit. Why are you seeing this? When we visited this site, we found it exhibited one or more risky behaviors

Love to go and read the Widnes forum but I get a website safety alert. Warning: Trouble ahead Whoa! Are you sure you want to go there? www.wissl.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=14&am... may be risky to visit. Why are you seeing this? When we visited this site, we found it exhibited one or more risky behaviors

I think we can see why the Widnes forum is hardly thriving. Outrun is clearly hogging the communal braincell.

Ok not so eloquently put Grimmy but you get the point. Do you think Wigan are blowing teams away? Who would you say was a fantastic result against? Wigan's biggest test so far was Brisbane and they failed miserably.



I read a heck of a lot of neutrals that tipped Hull to beat us last week and after a shakey start they couldn't handle us. Tonight is of course our toughest test but I'm sure the players are taking it more serious that some of the dismissive fans here.

A couple of weeks ago I'd have been more worried, but bar a ten minute lapse we really dominated Hull FC, and we looked better again against Leeds, and could have put 50 past them if Williams had played or a few passes had stuck. We have won our last 25 SL games at the DW, and since you returned to SL our record against you at the DW is:



Won 20-10

Won 48-04

Won 48-04 (again)

Won 62-04

Won 54-12



I know the 'done thing' is to say it'll be a tough one with no more than a score in it so I don't look daft if we lose but i think the above is fair reason for me to be confident. I reckon we look more likely to step up that extra gear and blow you away, or at worst grind out the win, than for you to finally end our SL home run. Obviously the players won't be as relaxed as me and will be treating this as one they will need to play at their best to win. FWIW if this was an away game I'd be predicting a win by no more than 6.

I am in the same boat as Grimmy pretty much. Except that if we don't win I won't feel stupid as it's just a prediction and nobody can be certain what will happen out there on the pitch tonight. But I'm not that worried that out home winning streak will be ended tonight.



As I said, if you look back to 2014 Widnes had a similar start to that season too, and fell off in the end, I am predicting something similar this year, unless they can be extremely lucky and remain injury free. They have a good team, and I think it will be a good game tonight, but if Wigan defend like they have been doing then I feel confident.

Am I reading this right that if Widnes finish in the top 4/5 you think it will be purely down to luck?

I thought our defence last week was very aggressive and looked really solid. Thought our attack quite frankly in the first half was pretty awful but improved a bit in the second half.

Just don't see 28 points between the teams.

If Widnes can defend their line well I'd give them a decent chance tonight unless we improve our passing game which has been pedestrian, telegraphed with zero dummy runners.

I would turn your argument around and say that we haven't played anybody yet that can actually attack at pace with perhaps the exception of Salford who could have nicked it near the end.

We have zero pace so will be interesting to see how we try and combat the Widnes attack particularly on a good dry surface. Looking forward to it.

Not sure I'd agree with you regarding zero pace, Manfredi and Charnley both made good breaks last week, not many can catch Gildart, Gelling, Sarginson or Williams, Bateman and Farrell and rapid for second rowers. Flower is very mobile for a prop. That's nearly half the 17 I'd class as amongst the fastest in SL in their position.

Ok, don't cheer too loudly if you're correct

Nothing would give me greater pleasure than seeing Sarginson going the full length of the field or Charnley supporting a break from Gildart

Silverwood's performance will be crucial. The Widnes fans are also critical of him, but several times last season and also this he has not done Wigan any favours - most noticeably, though, when he has been VR. Grand Final (with Bentham) ignoring McGuire's blatant knock on which led to a try and Farrell's disallowed try last week.

It is a fascinating contest - if Wigan's defence is as ruthless as last week, they should win comfortably. If the forwards do not get on top, Kevin Brown, Joe Mellor and Hanbury could wreak havoc and Widnes could have a field day.

Quietly confident the Wigan forwards will prevail and the outside backs will be as effective as they were against Leeds.

Manfredi is deceptively quick with his long legs ( à la Pat Richards but faster). I have watched back the run which led to the Bateman try and between just after the Wigan 20 metre line and half way he really motors once he has broken through a few tackles. He then slows down as the cover defence comes across. Allied to his huge strength he is really turning into a top winger.

Sarginson (for all his faults) was motoring as well and was at Manfredi's side by the half way line (indeed, Manfredi might well have passed inside to him). All this bodes very well for the coming months as the pitches firm up. If Charnley consistently maintains the pace and enthusiasm he did against Leeds, Wigan will have a back 3 to rank against any in Super League. And Sam is yet to return....

I wonder whether SW would ever countenance playing Sam at 6 (and dare I say it, play George at 7 and Smith as bench 9) or is it nailed on that Sam will return as full back?

It should be very interesting game tonight. It's fair to say we haven't been in sparkling form however the commitment, will to win and defence has been fantastic. I think it's only a matter of time before we blow someone away. That said I think last week will have taken a bit out of us as that was a huge effort to dominate Leeds like we did. The league table doesn't lie. Widnes have started the season very well and scored a lot of points in the process. They also don't have the injuries that we do. All things considered it could go either way tonight.

Well being totally honest I really dislike Wigan

BUT

I have to admire the fact that you're getting results and clearly aren't near your best form - with many top players to come back from injury.

The systems and structures in place are so well drilled that even if you don't play well - or you've guys missing - you can still win.

That's impressive, but also (for me) boring.



The match against Leeds was predictable and i didn't expect any other result.

Fair play to your guys - they are very athletic and physical.

I hate the way you've taken tacking - 3rd man in around the knees - but I fully expect to get people disagreeing with me and a fair bit of abuse. No problem.



Tonight I expect you to win, but will be supporting Widnes.

Your defence and their attack will nullify each other.

Your attack will overcome their defence.

Looking forward to it even so.