Just spoils the show for me having him on. He sits there spouting all this stuff off about why warrington are bad, why didn't he know all this when he was coaching them

Can't stand his bl**dy voice. I also think they should show more of the games that are not televised, and go through them, rather than having to sit through games we have already seen on the tv.

In fairness to Cullen, he is doing a coaches analysis, similar to how Tony Rea did it last year.

Its trying to give fans an insight into the types of technical aspects to a game that coaches look for, which should be interesting to people who have more than a passing interest.

When he is talking about numbers of bodies in tackles, winning collision etc, these are all the small building blocks that add up to deciding who wins a game and why, rather than just which team scores the most tries.

For me, keep it in. It may give the likes of the wire fans some kind of understanding as to the size of the task James Lowes has on his hands.

I like it.

I do too.

Tony Rea was excellent last year and Cullen is doing a similar thing. Highlighting a problem is on thing but fixing it is another.

Take Wigan for example, the right hand side defence this season has been poor to say the least.

Is it all down to Smiths tackling?
I don't think so.

Darrell Goulding is a very good one on one tackler. What he is not doing at the moment is reading the game defensively. Sometimes he comes out of the line sometimes he stays. It's very difficult for whoever is playing inside of him to also then make the correct decision.

Cullen picked up on it last night.

Lat years Rea picked up on Phil Baileys contribution to Wigans defensive line and orgnisation, and as I said in regards to Flannery of Saints, these players are sorely missed when they do not play.

Sean Long has one of the worst defensive records in Rugby League but he doesn't seem to get exposed the way that Smith has done this season.

Sinfield sh*tting himself with that sea eagle.

I enjoyed it too, and having been at a audience with Scully which Cullen was on the panel, I had a different view of the guy by the end of the evening.

I think most people are scared by Cullen. His ability to read the game and make it simple for the "casual observer" some how makes many people feel inferior.

The guy may have been turd as a man manager, but he isn't half tactically aware. The show is better for him.

While not having seen these programmes. I think its encouraging that some of the technical aspects of RL are being taught to fans.

For years fans have been kept in the dark on offensive and defensive strategies, and as a result our enjoyment and appreciation of the sport is curtailed.

Revealing some of the subtleties of the sport also will help some fans respect the work more, that many players do. Often much of this work goes unappreciated by many on the terraces, who see only a big hit or a blockbusting run, rather than good positional play, off the ball running, excellent player to player communication etc.

I can't stand Angela Powers I just don't see the point in her.

Must, resist, joke.

On a related point the 9.30 round up on SSN isn't the same without Tony Rea.

Offiah is trying his best but he's clearly rubbish at the job. He offers no specialist insight at all, he just confirms the name of the try scorer as the footage plays.

Offiah is bumbling idiot brought in because of his name.

Get Cull doing that section and someone watching SSN would probably be interested in it.

I had to wait till 0:15 to watch it, stupid golf.

I had to grin at his dire attempt at a brave face!!!!!

See Eddie was still getting his digs in about Saints losing to Leeds. There's never a week goes by . He's still blaming our lads for the team performance in Aus.

I would agree , Offiah's performance has been very poor.

The format for BootsnAll is much improved , but I do think Angela Powers must come as a package with Cullen.

Cullen's voice winds me up. I don't doubt his enthusiasm and commitment and knowledge of the game but I always want to adopt a scouse accent and say 'calm down, calm down' whenever he voices his opinion. Not good for the digestion. Wish we could have Tony R back again. He was fantastic.

Who gives a flying rats bum what Eddie says though?

Well we did make up the bulk of the squad so to be fair they have to shoulder some of the blame and a number of our players simply didnt perform to their capabilities.

No we didn't. Leeds did. They had one more player than us chosen for the squad.

So it's actually all Leeds fault. But we knew that anyway!

Not being pedantic or anything.

cullen or tony rea................cullen any day!

huge respect for cullen, not many coaches when they have been sacked will hold their hands up and say he was not up for the task. he was really informative on this weeks show.

think i may set up a buy british campaign



apart from jl

Could we not get Tommy on there? If he's as charismatic as you suggest in your reports on the testimonial forums he might be worth a push?

he wont dye his hair for any job

I think they should give Karl Kirkpatrick at slot to discuss technical issues and referee performances/contencious issues!

Now that would be good TV!