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Strange especially Thackery after they fought to keep him pre-season.

Get thacks and Ford signed up here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why would anybody let Paul Cullen near their team. How can anybody work with him when nobody can decipher the crap that comes out of his mouth.

Their recruitment has been poor for the past few years. Wonder who will be advising them on the players they need for next year? If Fax go up in July I expect us to find better players even though we may not have a bigger budget than them.

What do you mean maybe?

This is a decision that has baffled about 90% of Widnes fans... Even if they agree that Thackray is not SL standard the timing of the announcement is incredible. There are some who would be delighted with this news if it meant that one of Gilmore, Gore or Craven are given an opportunity but all three are injured or only just returning from injury.

I suspect there is more to this than meets the eye but we will probably never know.
Anyway... there goes our one attacking spark for this Thursday so look forward to your first win.

Cullen got us into SL and made sure you didn't.

I couldn't see your lot going for Darren Lockyer (even though we got turned down

) or Matty Bowen (who were still waiting for). Oh, don't forget Tim Sheens (who also turned us down

)

think we will go there and win we normally motivate ourselves more for widnes (frustratingly) its the monday match that worries me. we should win but.... well the rest is predictable fax stuff

What?!?!?

It was on FOX News in Australia.

If you play against Widnes like you did against us you will beat them , they just cannot take any sort of pressure , just keep running at Allen and he will either fall over or give you a penalty , no doubt Gannon will be well up for it , will Ben Black be available for this one ?

think black, watene, barlow, nash and goddard will be back.

What? Ben Black got you in, followed soon after by O'Connor's lure of cash. Cullen is somewhere in the background - speaking in tongues. What he said in 2009 is only just being decyphered by Egytpologists.

Oh dear

Oh my goodness, it's like all your christmasses come at once isn't it?

If you mean , am I enjoying my RL at the moment , then yes , I was very happy to see the Fax team on Sunday , add Black , Barlow , Nash and big Frank on a mission into their team and we could have been in real trouble , they played some good stuff and are only lacking confidence , if they can get a score or two in front they'll be getting back to what we all know they are capable of , whereas Widnes is like a cheap Easter egg , looks impressive at the start , but once you crack the cheap chocolate open , there's nowt of value inside ,

Reminds me of the Franklin Mint's "dogs eggs" advert in Viz

Interesting metaphor... next year we'll be like a Fabergé egg. Everyone will marvel at our splendour.

Course they will

Coach wise we're being linked to some very good names, we've got offers out with a number of fantastic players and we'll probably be spending up to the salary cap.
Good times.

Nighty night Twinkle!

I wouldnt risk them. I think we need to focus now on the NRC and try and makes sure everyone is fit for that. Where we finish in the league dosnt matter but if we can get to the NRC final then it will be a great send off for us from this league.

How many weeks off is that ?

Plus I wouldn't be thinking that way really , if you seriously think you have a chance in July your performances this year will make a difference ,

No they won't. The last two do.

You just love having a dig, top of the league and your gates are still crap.

Enjoy.