James Webster : Tue May 11, 2010 10:36 am  

Rumours that he is off to Hull FC as assistant coach, to be honest would'nt bother me if he did. To me not performing, and his kicking to touch is awful.

Re: James Webster : Tue May 11, 2010 11:04 am  

Disagree with that mate, he would be a big loss in my eyes and has been performing very well this year and compliments Thacks very well.

Re: James Webster : Tue May 11, 2010 11:51 am  

a great organiser which we need

Re: James Webster : Tue May 11, 2010 12:02 pm  

We can't afford to let Webster go, completely disagree Runcorn Viking.

Re: James Webster : Tue May 11, 2010 12:22 pm  

We played proberly our best rugby this season when we played Whitehaven, when he didn't play

Re: James Webster : Tue May 11, 2010 1:21 pm  

Disagree fully anyone who has watched Widnes this season will have seen what Webster really offers... he's a player you don't notice what he does until he has gone. Side can look a bit lost without him even in defence too!

Plus kicking to touch has got a lot better / longer in recent weeks since was first mentioned at the start of the season!

Don't think he'll go this season but possible next if he deceided to hang his boot's up and with SL app qualification sorted we could look to brining in a younger half for the future!

Re: James Webster : Tue May 11, 2010 1:31 pm  

Saying that seeing the rumours that Fax may be set for a fire slae very quickly letting him go could free up a move for Mr Widnes aka Ben Black!

Re: James Webster : Tue May 11, 2010 1:57 pm  

Runcorn Viking wrote:

We played proberly our best rugby this season when we played Whitehaven, when he didn't play

The Whitehaven team we played that day was dire; St. Judes put up more of a fight.

Losing Webster would definitely be a blow unless we had another player of his quality lined up.

Re: James Webster : Tue May 11, 2010 9:48 pm  

Runcorn Viking wrote:

We played proberly our best rugby this season when we played Whitehaven, when he didn't play

Whitehaven are arguably the worst team in the comp and were playing their second game in 4 days after we had been given Good Friday off.

Re: James Webster : Tue May 11, 2010 11:04 pm  

So everyone apart from Runcorn Viking is in agreement.

I can sort of understand where Runcorn Viking is coming from. Webbo doesn't quite have the pace over 20 yards that he had a few years ago and he doesn't really have a long kicking game. However, I still think he is massively important to us from an organisational point of view. Going forward as well, IMO he still is very dangerous whether that be with ball in hand or passing moves. Admittedly, when we are attacking, I think people were expecting him to perhaps run at defenders a bit more, but I think he's done ok.

In the longer term, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't try and keep him for another season after this and if we do get a licence then we could try and go for a NRL scrum half. By the end of next season, Webbo might decide he wants to end his playing career anyway.