Re: Club of the year : Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:49 pm  

OFFTHECUFF wrote:

Who cares

Not Widnes so it seems. It's a football town now.

Re: Club of the year : Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:31 pm  

St pete wrote:

Not Widnes so it seems. It's a football town now.

So what Rugby is a minority sport and is in St Helens too. So your point of view is bullshit.

Re: Club of the year : Thu Nov 06, 2014 9:58 pm  

OFFTHECUFF wrote:

So what Rugby is a minority sport and is in St Helens too. So your point of view is bullshit.

Double winners and also have many many bike grown players so my point stands.

Re: Club of the year : Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:16 pm  

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St pete wrote:

Double winners and also have many many bike grown players so my point stands.

Not really and if you say so in your world. The size of your Town should be getting 30,000 on average. Most Towns are full of footballers and Widnes is a third of the size of St Helens. Why you coming on here anyway, as your opinion does not matter to Widnes, and congratulations on double winners with much more years in Superleague , and more money to spend. You deserve a medal for pointing out something I did not know about, and also i do not care about. I also see nobody is arsed with your view points and twiddle back to your board on negative points.

Re: Club of the year : Fri Nov 07, 2014 7:39 am  

OFFTHECUFF wrote:

:x gNot really and if you say so in your world. The size of your Town should be getting 30,000 on average. Most Towns are full of footballers and Widnes is a third of the size of St Helens. Why you coming on here anyway, as your opinion does not matter to Widnes, and congratulations on double winners with much more years in Superleague , and more money to spend. You deserve a medal for pointing out something I did not know about, and also i do not care about. I also see nobody is arsed with your view points and twiddle back to your board on negative points.

That's the sort of attitude that puts Widnes in a poor category of producing youth. For a club with Widnes history I find it pretty shocking that currently the is only 2/3 Widnes lads playing in super league.

Grass roots rugby is what keeps rugby going and Widnes turn a blind eye to it. You qoute keep spending the money which I find completely laughable when last season our squad had pleanty of English and homegrown players.

Lomax, swift, jones, Percival, makinson, wellens, Roby, Thompson, Ade, wheeler, Richards, greenwood, walker, Savelio and others that played odd games all come thru our system.

turner, Flanaghan, Wilkin, Amor, walmsley, Lms are all English players that play for the club.

We also have the likes of Chris dean, Jamie foster, Paul clough, Lee Gaskell, Matty smith Jamie Ellis off the top of my head playing for other clubs.

Your correct we have spent money, we spent it on youth development.

Re: Club of the year : Fri Nov 07, 2014 8:11 am  

Spent more on youth development because have more money, and your club is in the top 4 biggest clubs in Superleague. It be like Widnes comparing against Keighley. Been new to Superleague and to produce Jack Owens, Flynn, Declan Hulme, Craven, Gerrard, Gilmore, Gore, Lawton, and others left due to money. Mullaley and Richard Myler where Widnes Academy players too. The way you are talking it is like we have zero. Anyway why does it concern you anyway?

Re: Club of the year : Fri Nov 07, 2014 10:14 am  

OFFTHECUFF wrote:

Spent more on youth development because have more money, and your club is in the top 4 biggest clubs in Superleague. It be like Widnes comparing against Keighley. Been new to Superleague and to produce Jack Owens, Flynn, Declan Hulme, Craven, Gerrard, Gilmore, Gore, Lawton, and others left due to money. Mullaley and Richard Myler where Widnes Academy players too. The way you are talking it is like we have zero. Anyway why does it concern you anyway?

Because I thought all this would go into consideration when selecting team of the year

Re: Club of the year : Fri Nov 07, 2014 10:33 am  

St pete wrote:

Because I thought all this would go into consideration when selecting team of the year

You need to ask Ste O Connor and the RFL? Finances are also solid and we are progressing from the postion 4 yrs ago. Still a lot of youth in a short period of time in the top flight, and like your club not had many years in Superleague. Their is more than youth in a criteria too, and seen as you know all teams finances and business plans, I am sure you know best. Now bore off to your own board, as this is very tedious and boring.

Get over it as nearly a new season and the result stands.

Re: Club of the year : Fri Nov 07, 2014 12:10 pm  

OFFTHECUFF wrote:

You need to ask Ste O Connor and the RFL? Finances are also solid and we are progressing from the postion 4 yrs ago. Still a lot of youth in a short period of time in the top flight, and like your club not had many years in Superleague. Their is more than youth in a criteria too, and seen as you know all teams finances and business plans, I am sure you know best. Now bore off to your own board, as this is very tedious and boring.

Get over it as nearly a new season and the result stands.

Aye I'm not knocking O'conner or how well you done this year at all. I think Widnes had a great season and finished higher than most expected.

My comments are based on the grass roots and youth development of your club. You don't need masses amounts of money to scout the best local Widnes lads but you need to be out and about watching as the kids are the future of all rugby league teams.

IMO Widnes don't do enough at grass roots and Widnes have admitted this.

Re: Club of the year : Fri Nov 07, 2014 2:06 pm  

I was also at one of the Pathway meetings and Phil Finney admitted that in the past they hadn't done enough to scout players but were now doing things differently, hence the Pathway.