No place in our game for it



Hope the RFL fine them too

I presume you're talking about Wigan?



If so there's no need for the RFL to get involved, they lost. That's enough punishment. A coach has a squad and is entitled to use it as he wishes.

What difference does it make? None whatsoever... it doesn't matter. Wigan will still finish comfortably in the Top 4 and Widnes will still finish last. No other teams affected by the result. Welcome to Super League where the top clubs can always afford to throw games

Anybody know what the odds on a Widnes win were?

Stop with this talk of disrespect. It effectively gives wigan and exuse they dont deserve. It implies they played a reserve team against us and thats why we won. They actually had what? three or four regular first teamers missing? well so did we, our first choice stand off, best prop and our top try scorer amongst them. we beat them fair and square.

It won't be the only game of the season where a SL club rests a lot of players against Widnes. With luck they might pick up 4 or 5 wins this year which won't look quite as shabby as initially feared.

What are the actual rules on fielding your strongest available team?

The only rule i am aware of to do with the team picked is the one about picking a 19 man squad 48 hours before the match. Or something along those lines.

I don't think there is any case to answer here, Rugby League is a squad game played throughout 30+ games in a season, if you choose to blood a few younger players then it is entirely your call.



From a Widnes point of view I don't think any talk of a weakened side will matter, you can only beat the side in front of you and I'm sure everyone at the club is delighted to get off the mark in front of a big crowd at home against Wigan. They came from behind in both halves and will take a lot of confidence from that.



From Wigan's point of view, these dropped points aren't going to mean a great deal in the grand scheme of things, they will still be there or there abouts come finals time and hopefully have their top players fit and ready for the business part of the season. On top of that they have introduced a number of their young talented players to first team rugby, of course mistakes will be made but the kids who played today will take a great deal from this game in the long run despite initial disappointment with the result.



Look at the end of the day we've ended up with what sounds like a fantastic, competitive game of football involving a high number of young British players.

Fook that. I hope they "disrespect" us as well.

Their isn't one and their should never be one. Silly in the Premiership when teams get fined for fielding a weakened side. It should be the club/coach prerogative who they pick to do the job. If Wigan had won would this thread even exist?

Think the biggest disrespect is to dismiss' Widnes (who have suffered badly through injuries this year) win down to Wigan underestimating them.