At the minute you are the worst SL I've seen at Craven Park since 2007



Thankfully you have time to build, the crusaders had a much better second season

Tell you what Crab Scabs, I must agree that you have no discernable genitalia

im not im judging you on your 5 games so far its your coach thats the problem you stuggled in the championship with him

Unfortunately games like that should end about 10 - 6 not 36-0!

Those kind of games show if your team has the stomach for a fight and the will to tough it out. You lacked almost as much of that as you did skill level. If I was to judge your team from the first 5 games i would still think it was below average and likely to finish bottom. As for Betts..

oh dear. I hope you improve because on the whole you are a good bunch and it wouldnt be good for the game for you to get spanked every week

I did feel sorry for your lot in those terrible conditions, but it was no worse than when I have stood at: Leeds, Wakefield and Bradford in the peeing down rain. It must have been even worse having to endure those conditions whilst watching the performance Widnes put in. However, being rained on e.t.c and getting a thumping by another team in the process (which has happened to us on occasion), did not make me jump on the board and have a go about said teams ground. We have improved our ground massively, and it has already been said, that next season you will have a shiny new stand to go in, and hopefully you and other teams will then bring some more travelling support. We have so far delivered on our promises as a club and continue to deliver continuous ground improvements in extremely difficult financial times.



On a final note, as someone has stated, those conditions should have put the game on more of a level, so really, it's not going to get much easier for Widnes. Wishing you more luck for the rest of the season (except when you play us of course

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I doubt the new stand will make a difference in similar conditions as it was driving from the South, so you would have still have got wet, as you would at ANY ground, new or old.

We played with the conditions in the first half, so they would have been covered as it was coming from behind them

Meh. I stood on uncovered terraces at loads of grounds for the first 10 years of my time watching RL. Now we have summer rugby and all-seater stadia, but while I can't say I miss the winter season so much as I used to, I do increasingly miss the old grounds. Proper RL grounds.



You still stand uncovered in at least some part of Headingley, Wheldon Road, Odsal and Belle Vue too. Times must change I suppose, but I'll miss the old-school grounds when they're gone or just modernised out of all recognition.



Buy a warm coat, is my advice. Used to work OK for me.

The board at HKR should take into account that Away fans have to travel Wigan/Warrington/Saints /Salford /Widnes

have about 2 hours ride along the M62 and the same back, the last thing you need is getting wet through and having to sit in wet gear on the way home .Rovers want to get to a 10.000 gate to do that they have to encourage away fans to come .and that means keeping them dry .The 5 teams stated, you are under cover if it rains ,They Boards have done something about it

All their boards have done something about it with a fair amount of help from commercial backers, and crucially their local authorities.



What you wouldn't want is a situation where two clubs in one city inhabited older grounds, but only one of them got the chance to move into a new state-of-the-art stadium with the football team, with loads of council backing, while one got very little help from the council.



Know any cities where that would happen?

No, where did this happen? It certainly never happened in Hull. Both rugby league clubs were invited to move to the KC stadium when it was built.