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.

Just shows how opinions as supporters differ, I thought Brown was superb, although he should have got 10 mins for the attack on the head of one of our players.

He was pretty much the only Widnes player that I'd have put in the Fax team based on yesterday's game.

Tes Tickle on the bench?

But then for who?

No I think your right.

thought Hep Cahill had a good game for them

He did get through a lot of work but nothing spectacular unless launching the ball forward in the tackle counts.

Classic this topic. Tickle on the bench this is comedy of top draw.The weather has helped Fax, and also been a big game is bound to raise your game, and Widnes only needed to be in Second gear. Training session really.

Cahill and Tickle would all over your forwards, especially on a warm sunny day. You must be all wearing the wrong goggles.

Ah but they'd also blow our salary cap as well.

Nearly all of Widnes attacking play went through Brown, so in that respect he did boss the game for them along with Clarke, but this is a Stand off with over 200 appearances in SL and an England International. Apart from a couple of good attacking kick I thought he just looked busy without really threatening. He didn't create a single opening with ball in hand and Widnes didn't make a break all game. I suppose I was just expecting more from him, maybe if Mellor had of played he would have linked better with him. Just my opinion of course.

Interesting comments refn refs, imo they seem to be ruining the spectacle at present. Failure to police the 10m and stop the ruck being slowed down is making the game boring at all levels.

We had 3 SL pre season friendlies, two rule books were on display in every one. Watching SL is currently like watching the NRL in slow motion