Re: half time : Mon Jan 03, 2011 2:55 pm  

Pepe wrote:

:DOH:
Yes, yes, my bad. I wrote 1,450 instaed of 2,450. If you read the rest of my post you'll see I said that there was at least 1,700-1,800 in there. That wouldn't have been possible in a stand which only holds 1, 450.

Pepe, Pepe. Our Wire friends will sieze upon your spelling mistake as another reason why we might struggle in SL. Get your poop together.

Re: half time : Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:35 pm  

The way i saw it was it was their youngsters against ours for a lot of the game with them backed up with a couple of class SL players who ran the game. Solomona was involved in the first 3 tries for them, scoring one of them. At one point i counted 5 of our players on him and he still managed to offload the ball. When they took him off with Higham and a couple of others it gave our lads a a bit more of a chance to attack. I wasn't very impressed with the new second rower from Leigh and Gardner was shocking at times. Flynn missed a couple of tackles but he always ran the ball back at full pace and made an impact. Mullally impressed and i thought although he did well when he was on, Owen shouldn't have got MOM after just 15 minutes.

A nice taste of rugby league for both sets of fans but id rather us play somebody in our division in a warm up game, give the lads more of an opportunity to show us how they can attack and score tries.

Re: half time : Mon Jan 03, 2011 4:48 pm  

rufustanner wrote:

You're not wrong. The smugness form some of them for beating a part time side with 18% of your salary cap is a bit embarrasing. God help us if you ever win the GF.

Smugness? No, I was just asking was that your first team out there yesterday, because if it was I worry for you, because we had our second team out.

Re: half time : Mon Jan 03, 2011 4:50 pm  

Pepe wrote:

:DOH:
Yes, yes, my bad. I wrote 1,450 instaed of 2,450. If you read the rest of my post you'll see I said that there was at least 1,700-1,800 in there. That wouldn't have been possible in a stand which only holds 1, 450.

We'll leave it their I think. If you think that there was 700 seats spare then, I think its best to leave it be.

Re: half time : Mon Jan 03, 2011 4:55 pm  

I thought Warrington were superb in the first half an hour. Solomona in particular, almost unplayable. They had a decent side out so the score line is pretty respectable, especially considering the half time scoreline, Widnes help up well in the second half. Widnes had a mixed side out so it's hard to read anything into their performance and the result. Although I thought Gardner was shocking. I thought a few of the younger players showed a bit of promise though and Heckenberg and Haggerty both need to get fitter, they were both fooked after about 20 minutes.

Hopefully Warrington will put a similar kind of side out against Leigh and we can see how we fair up against them.

Re: half time : Mon Jan 03, 2011 5:15 pm  

Leyther_till_death wrote:

Hopefully Warrington will put a similar kind of side out against Leigh and we can see how we fair up against them.

I've been told we will be playing our nearest full strength squad possible, with Joel and Hodgson looking to make there first appearances in a Warrington shirt.

Re: half time : Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:53 pm  

Fair effort from both sides,and as already said a side which can only spend 300k won't live with a side which can spend 1.65 million. Obviously if Widnes get in SL that won't be their first choice side,but it wasn't ours either and it's always good to give the old enemy a bit of a hiding!