On a comprehensive win tonight, and turning up in the thousands to see your team win.



Before you all start the RL should have been much more sensible with this and I realise that, that having it on a Friday night does not give the fans time to get to the game, but Gateshead will be dissapointed with 402 as when some of the lower teams play a SL team, getting half the gate reciepts really helps for the rest of the season!

You expect thousands to travel from London to Gateshead on a friday night? Wow.

Was never likely to be a big crowd though slightly above Gateshead's average, I think?

The RFL are giving the clubs that reached this stage of the cup a lump sum this year to cover the fact that Super League season ticket holders get in free this round.



If Gateshead had drawn a team with a bigger support base they probably wouldn't have made any more money as that team will have more season ticket holders.

If they'd drawn a team like Wigan/Saints/Leeds, you could have potentially had locals going to watch, just because they'd heard of the away side.

and you had to come on VT to say this??





Speechless.....

He didn't have a Widnes defeat to whine and whinge about (for a change!) so this was 2nd best.

lol didn't know Widnes ever lost, thought it was the ref, pitch, fans etc....

Can't exactly blame Quins fans for not travelling on a Friday night to Gateshead. I wouldn't either if i lived in London. It wasn't ever going to be a tight, thrilling game.

Oi less of that! Most Widnes fans who post on here (myself included) will freely admit that our recent on-field performances have varied between woeful and mediocre regardless of ref, pitch, fans etc.





In case it isn't obvious from his username and avatar, wakeytom is a Wakefield fan who likes to come on here and whine and whinge about how rubbish Widnes are every time they lose (ie most weeks recently).

my bad....

And, as much as I'll get slagged for this, we, of course, would have taken thousands up to Gateshead on a Friday night. Or, say, across the M62 to Chorley on a Friday night in a Challenge Cup tie. Attendance that night at Victory Park? 696. Pot, kettle, black.