mini pendulum

I love the Widnes fans all coming out of the woodwork now when 12 months ago he'd have been slaughtered by them all


I really hope he does well there! That being said I cant sit and watch boots n all for anyone

Salary cap.

I'll happily admit to being a Cullen basher, but he's been a revelation for us and really stamped his mark on the team. Black and White through and through is our Cull

Well by the looks of things I'm in a minority but I think Cullen is one of the best thing to happen to Sky's rugby coverage - following on from Rae.
He's eloquent yet has a northern accent (Yorkshire would be better but what the heck)
He knows his rugby, he is pointing things out that Eddie and Stevo have never heard of, and he is introducing a vocabulary that fans haven't heard before. It isn't wrong it is the language used in coaching.

eg. Arm wrestle. The game is now like an arm wrestle. There can be an apparent defensive stalemate for a long stretch in the game and then suddenly one team will cave. It's pretty obvious and a good description to teach players about the game.

Pendulum - good description to explain how the wings cover full back and need to follow each other in the process. Half backs and centres have the same process in the middle.

These are modern day coaching techniques to break the game down into component parts so that individual players can concentrate on their jobs without worrying about the stuff that doesn't concern them.
It isn't just pass, run and tackle any more.

Of course some of the Aussie-isms are not necessary and can be irritating but recognising that the basics (which we always say the aussies do so well) are actually quite complex unless you break it down, is why the southern hemisphere moved forward and left us behind.

To be honest, Cullen is giving a modern day lesson on modern day rugby and scoffing at the back because you don't understand isn't really a criticism of Cullen is it. Go and play on the swings and let the intelligent kids listen!

Few! Didn't know I felt so strong about it!

How was training today Paul?

The thumbwrestling was great but the downtowns were poor and we had too many turtle tackles.

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Hulls inability to score at home in ultra detail

Couldnt agree more with that post. I find some of the expressions he uses funny, but only funny because intelligence is often the exception rather than the rule in our game and it is funny to see Stevo made to look like an amateur player when he uses the language of modern rugby league, and funny because you know the people who are laughing at him have precisely a thousandth of the knowledge of the game of RL that Paul Cullen has.

Cullen is doing a fine job at revitalising my club after the 'dark days' of McCormack's 1-man rugby. He is also a refreshing break from the Harrisons, Peacocks etc of the world who can barely get a sentence out....

mock all you want!!!! cull is THE best english coach in the game today,

Despite talking bollox , that just shows how poor our coach development is

we'll not mention the cowardly thug rowley shall we????? talks bollox and coaches bollox!


sorry forgot to ask are leigh still in danger of relegation??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

You mentioned him not me

Yes we are going down

Cullen still talks bollox

but still is a tremendous coach................

For an Englishman , all those trophys he has won

Errr , the NRC

And the , Errrr NRC , and the Errrrr NRC

So he is about as successful as

Steve Mcormack

you forgot the international federation shield as england coach!!!!

Which involved us beating who exactly ?

My Nan could have achieved similar results

ladies and gentlemen i give you ian millward, who coached a great side that he inherrited and a monkey could have coached the very same side to the success they achieved, daniel anderson took them that step further into being a tremendous side. whilst millward took wigan to the brink of relegation.


i rest my case!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why do you feel the need to keep bringing other names into this discussion

I agree with you completely both on P Rowley and I Millward , Rowley doesn't have the right attitude in my opinion and Basil turned round a on our s Leigh team that couldn't go much lower then left and walked into the best team in the country , so neither have ' proved ' themselves

But this discussion is not about them , it is about P Cullen who also has achieved virtually nothing as a coach , plus he talks bollox

go away you infuriating little man, cull has turned the chemics fom also rans to championship contenders.

Woop de do , he has taken the best bunch of players in this division to where they should be , he has done what any self respecting coach should have been able to do , Steve Mac may well have done the same or better

But he still talks bollox

Hehe, no way am i getting into the 'talking bollox' debate

but I have to take issue with that statement - McCormack was taking us to the bottom of the league, nowhere else.

Dreadful performances at the start of that season, unnatractive rugby turning fans away, training regularly attended by 6 players out of a squad of 25. Thats why he got the boot. Anyway, you can carry on about Cullen now...

Paul's successor seems to be doing ok for the Wire

Jimmy Lowes had to step down to assist Tony Smith.