Re: crap : Fri May 14, 2010 5:58 pm  

What was also disappointing was that we gifted Leigh a 12 start but then we started to settle and we made 2, 3 or 4 breaks / half breaks out wide. It was obvious we weren't going to get any change out of them in the middle + as Off! Number Seven said we should have been dragging around the pitch more often. Unfortunatley we went down the middle far too often and basically played into their hands. One factor for this however was the lack of options. Webbo never runs with the ball, last night he must have tried it 4 or 5 times and was almost certainly it was because he had no-one on his shoulder to make the run out wide or on the fringes.

I wasn't surprised by Thackeray's performance, he's a wonder runner and has got a great dummy, but IMO his kicking isn't great and he isn't exactly known for his passing skills either -Dennis Moran eat your heart out.

Re: crap : Fri May 14, 2010 9:44 pm  

richardviking wrote:

Robbie Paul did nothing. Martin Ridyard was their real star.

sponsors 'man of the match' was robbie BLESS. He had an ok game, but in a side that had a fantastic start to the game.

Re: crap : Sat May 15, 2010 1:08 am  

-VIKINGMAN- wrote:

Absolute garbage, I want my money back.

Straight to the point, end of? that isnt like you Vikingman! I think we need a bit of belief and "bounce_back_ability", I also think we should have run out the full team we had against fev if we could, at least they had our deserved support at the end of the game. I will give it three weeks.... crap? I will reserve my judgement till then and that will include the linguistic Mr P C whilst his talk of the game is excellent on the tele how basic does it get when planning a match? x

Re: crap : Sat May 15, 2010 8:24 pm  

Just read Robbie Paul's programme notes for the Featherstone game and he praises Widnes for 'intelligently changing their style of attack midway through the game'. That is why he believes Leigh had problems for the first part of the second half. I suppose that knocks on the head the theories of some, that Paul Cullen only has one style of play!

Re: crap : Sun May 16, 2010 5:24 pm  

Are people in widnes beginning to realise that cullen's coaching ability is very limited I wonder?

Re: crap : Sun May 16, 2010 7:42 pm  

Wilderspool memories wrote:

Are people in widnes beginning to realise that cullen's coaching ability is very limited I wonder?

If his coaching ability is as limited as you say why did it take Warrington six years to find out?

Re: crap : Mon May 17, 2010 6:47 pm  

rufustanner wrote:

If his coaching ability is as limited as you say why did it take Warrington six years to find out?

Re: crap : Tue May 18, 2010 8:52 pm  

rufustanner wrote:

If his coaching ability is as limited as you say why did it take Warrington six years to find out?

Over friendly with the board and club owner Simon Moran so therefore they stuck with him out of some misguided sense of loyalty when all around the ground people could see it was going wrong,and the team were going backwards rather than forwards. The fact that Tony Smith had a trophy in the cabinet a mere 5 months after taking over the same group of players Cullen had coached proves my point I think. He is limited as a coach,will be a good mid table SL coach but you will never win major silverware with him in charge.(Please don't mention the Thomas the tank engine trophy!).

Re: crap : Tue May 18, 2010 9:26 pm  

Wilderspool memories wrote:

Over friendly with the board and club owner Simon Moran so therefore they stuck with him out of some misguided sense of loyalty when all around the ground people could see it was going wrong,and the team were going backwards rather than forwards. The fact that Tony Smith had a trophy in the cabinet a mere 5 months after taking over the same group of players Cullen had coached proves my point I think. He is limited as a coach,will be a good mid table SL coach but you will never win major silverware with him in charge.(Please don't mention the Thomas the tank engine trophy!).

Hmm, I think I can just about cope with not winning Super League or the Challenge Cup in the next few years.