I think thats what franchising is all about, slowly building on your strengths and slowly reducing your weaknesses. What im looking forward to is a 10k crowd at the stobart when wire and saints visit.

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3 games that will fill your ground..... there will be more as well..... HKR always bring about 30,000 fans... you will be locking them out

I see its gone from 20,000 from when they were in the championship to 30,000 now. I think the highest attendance we got in SL last time was just under 10k. However, with the drive and with the management we have with SOC, hopefully we can improve on this. If we make the 7000 members mark then we are going to spending to the full cap creating a very competitive team.



Out of curiousity, how many teams spend to the cap? The majority?

no idea... im a warrington fan... and as everyone knows, we spend over it... we just haven't been caught yet.

Jealous are we?





Least we are in superleague next year..you wont even get through the group stage of the northern rail next year you muppet!

His bums twitching and quite rightly so. To be honest if Widnes were the favourites to go down and Wakefield were coming up then I would probably adopt a similar attitude if they had 50 points put past them in the championship. As we all know though its the off field and youth set up which is the most important these days.

im a leigh fan and would just like to wish widnes the best of luck in Super League. However when walking home from the ground some widnes fans were not gracious in defeat. I hope you do well and show that a championship club can come up and compete. Good luck

It's Ok having money to spend, but I'm not sure were Widnes are going to find 15 plus players of good enough quality, are they under the same quota rules as most of SL?



Going to be a very hard first season for them, but I'm sure that they know this already.

was reported on the footy show last night that widnes made darren lockyer an offer to delay retirement for a bit and join them for next year but lockyer has turned them down



shame but shows their justififed confidence with a SL spot

The thing that saddens me as a trinity fan of many many years...



now the new owner has control at the club... the ONLY thing that the club lacks is a shiny new stadium...



If you look at the backroom work going on at Trinity, it is (in many areas ) leading edge... in others it is merely excellent.. the youth set up is role mdel worthy.. the transition of players throuth the grades can be tracked and measured and stacks up, against any business model...



Until the middle of last year... a timescale which mirrored the previous owners business affairs hitting the rocks... at first team level the club were MORE than holding their own.



The new owner has finances which will allow the club NOW to spend up to the full cap allowance.



The only thing that lets us down is the descrepit old stadium...People say that Trinity have not stepped up to the plate.... but they have... in 90% of their business...



Congratulations to Widnes!

Is that what's important to you though? As a fan? You're happy to pay £18 to watch a below par team but so long as the off-field stuff is fine that' what floats your boat?



I've got 9 years of company accounts and audit files in my office at work. You can read through 'em for £50.

Bang on mate. You tick more boxes than a lot of Super League teams. All you need is some players and they'll be readily available as you have got longer than any other promoted club into SL has ever had. Every decent out of contract NRL, SL and Championship player (not Chris Hill or Mick Govin-hands off) will be 'contacted' by Widnes and your side next year will have all of the outstanding youth, one year older and a dozen top quality players too.



As a fan of a lower league team I hope Widnes succeed in SL next year and get into the 8. It shows the system is working and gives lower division teams hope that they have not only a future, but if they adhere to the system, a successful future in the top tier.



Glass houses and all that.

So Wakey fans can mock all they want, you've got no fans, ground and a poor side. You're days are numbered.