Re: Widnes vs Batley : Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:02 pm  

Sign Mellor,Penny and Varks.

Re: Widnes vs Batley : Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:02 pm  

Anyone else think that we had more than 3800 in attendance today? Looked more than the previous 2 home games when we had over 4000 in.

Re: Widnes vs Batley : Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:03 pm  

ChrisViking wrote:

We needed a win today and right up to the final hooter we kept going. If every player showed the enthusiasm that Kevin Penny shows every game, we'd be a far more consistent team.

As said by VM, a massive improvement will be needed against Leigh otherwise we'll get blown away again.

Pickers, Varks, Penny, Mellor and Coyle all deserve a mention.

Kavs M.o.M for me.

I thought Flynn was going to annihilate the referee when he didnt get the penalty in the second half.

That was the incident which turned it around for us. We're clearly held down, then the ball is stripped and he gives a knock on. I think everyone could feel the same frustration and anger and the crowd lifted and then the players lifted. In a way it saved us.

Don't see how Coyle deserves a mention! Again, lethargically tracking back, slow play the balls, inside ball every time instead of using the wings. I can't see what others see in him and believe me, I want to.

Re: Widnes vs Batley : Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:05 pm  

-VIKINGMAN- wrote:

Anyone else think that we had more than 3800 in attendance today? Looked more than the previous 2 home games when we had over 4000 in.

Thought it looked less particularly in the south stand. I predicted 3,500, my brother 3,800. He must have been right. Surprising though. Match meant much more than either of the 4k gates.

Re: Widnes vs Batley : Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:16 pm  

Chris Dalton wrote:

Thought it looked less particularly in the south stand. I predicted 3,500, my brother 3,800. He must have been right. Surprising though. Match meant much more than either of the 4k gates.

Probably a lot of folk on holidays now the schools have finished .

Re: Widnes vs Batley : Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:21 pm  

Chris Dalton wrote:

I couldn't see from where I was. Suspected as much, linesman must have seen something.

It was the only soddin thing he saw all match though.

Re: Widnes vs Batley : Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:48 pm  

mick sterbs wrote:

Probably a lot of folk on holidays now the schools have finished .

Good point hadn't thought of that.

Re: Widnes vs Batley : Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:11 pm  

That penalty against Flynn defineately turned the game our way,it lifted the team and the crowd.Batley hardly got into our twenty afterwards.I thought we closed the game out well and prevented any danger of conceding a late winning score.Cracking game and atmosphere.

Re: Widnes vs Batley : Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:23 pm  

could the club actually being taking 2/300 off this week's gate and adding it to the Leigh one?

Re: Widnes vs Batley : Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:26 pm  

We always struggle at home against them. I couldn't see us scoring until Penny's bit of magic. Pickersgill and Kavanagh played well, and Paddy kept making plenty of those line clearing runs he's good at.

Logan Tomkins injured?