: Sat Feb 14, 2009 4:45 pm  

GSF wrote:

Why Saints V Wire live on telly should be a counter attraction for Widnes fans God only knows.Just another excuse for people who wouldn't go anyway.

Yeah your right about one thing it's just another excuse for people not to go,added to watching football,the weather,to dear etc...And after last night's dirge you can also add that too.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 4:54 pm  

GSF wrote:

Why Saints V Wire live on telly should be a counter attraction for Widnes fans God only knows.Just another excuse for people who wouldn't go anyway.

Absolutely correct! And why the club pander to armchair 'fans' of this and other sports by changing the match days at the expense of regular fans eludes me. Last season at this stage we got over 3,000 against Blackpool on a Sunday.
By the way, St Maries lost to Queens 15 - 8. Nice to see Widnes lads playing with some heart despite the loss.

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:42 pm  

Then he'd better hope people from areas like Childwall, Netherley, Aigburth, Woolton or Allerton don't find the TIW messageboard first or they'll do what my cousins' and their families did and head to Knowsley Road.

yes, because they love scousers in st helens, have you ever even tried telling one of them that they live in merseyside?

: Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:41 pm  

hoofhearted wrote:

yes, because they love scousers in st helens, have you ever even tried telling one of them that they live in merseyside?

Why would I do that? They're not on the banks of the Mersey and anyone who knows the history of the north west knows Merseyside was just an informal area consisting of Liverpool and Bootle in Lancashire and Birkenhead and Wallasey in Cheshire. I've never had a problem with people from St Helens whenever I've been to watch them.
The lack of local knowlege and history these days is quite astounding.

: Sun Feb 15, 2009 3:38 pm  

Stockport is more Merseyside than St.Helens.