"The Brains Trust"

Where does he get them from? Forget Colemanballs and Mossopisms, they've nothing on this guy

was he not lookin down stream for 26 brusied bodys cos the winger didnt hold his chalk colition on colition you love him with the buzz word s legend

This is whats known as a "KICK SPLIT"



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Didn't watch Boots N All this week out of principle - the principle that it's crap - but if he was refferring to the Front Row or the halfbacks, then it's hardly a Cullenism, been around for years in one form or other.

Cullen is a tactical legend in his own mind, but I still find him entertaining.

But if you think he's bad then have a listen to Terry O'Connor on the William Hill podcast every week. Same boring drival and just not funny.

Brains Trust isn't a Cullenism, I use it to take the p155 out of some mates at work.

I find it very informative and like to be shown things that I would otherwise not have seen. However, it does sound like he makes it up each week - kick split



I remain convinced though that the other 11 SL coaches (in PC time) always knew that little bit more and he was constantly outcoached - eg. John Kear could beat a PC team if he fielded 13 dustbins with no interchanges.

I'm not sure about 11, but I know what you mean.

To be fair to Cull, he always seemed (not always of course - but did well) to get the better of Nobby. We did really well over the years against Bradford & Wigan coached Noble sides.

You get the feeling now that Smith might get us through a play off or whatever or like hehas done to date, change a game at HT as he'll see things quicker than Cull, and have the nous to fix it.

I've always liked the guy, a perfect gentleman.

Unfortunately as the weeks roll by i cant take him seriously anymore. Especially since his comment 'there's Michael Monaghan back to his best position at hooker'.

He was referring to the playmakers, specifically 6,7,9 and 13 and used it umpteen times. Must have been for a bet.

I've watched RL for over 35 years and never heard that phrase used in any way, shape or form.

I often wonder if they rehe the show in the car on the drive down to the SKY studio's in London. I presume Cull, Eddie and Terry travel in the same car seeing as they're all local.

Wasn't that the collective name for Lee Penny and Warren Stevens?

PC is making himself a nice few shillings out of being in the 'entertainment' business and good luck to him.

I find him both informative (sometimes)and entertaining (sometimes) but never boring.

I suppose he's working on the theory that 'there's only one thing worse that being talked about....and that is not being talked about!

Talks a good talk though.

Perfect for the telly.

Must have been a nightmare for the 8 coaches (inc. John Kear) who finished with their teams below Cull's in 2005

in fact i don't remember any season when every single team did the double over us and we finished rock bottom as a result of cullen being outcoached in every game

never heard anything as ridiculous in my life

It's a lot better than the bleeding Super League Show.

we finished higher in the league with Cull than Tony Smith will ever get us.
Look at the league table it does not lie.

26 briused bodys looking down stream love him legend

League positions mean bu**er all due to the play offs. Smith will get us into finals and challenging for honours, something cullen would never have been able to do. Oh, and i wouldn't mind a bet that we could get 3rd next season anyway.

well at least one thing hasnt changed under Tony Smith......

"There's always next year".....

Exactly.

Look at the league table (if there was one) that only includes results during Smiths tenure, Top Four form. Something Cull sadly wasn't capable of delivering.

Tony Smith was here for the Leeds game so Lowes was only in charge for 3 games Saints Catalan and Wakey .....

had we lost only the Saints game we would be on 24 points and 5th......( a position I'm sure Cullen had us to once or twice)

since Smith arrived his team has played 18 won 10 and lost 8, its still a bit average isnt it ? and I'm sure Cullen had similarly average stats.....

we are hovering around the play off zone like we used to with Cullen

if Anyone had been on a desert island for the last 12 months suddenly came to a Warrington Game Would they notice any significant difference from the Cullen Years.......?

we still lose to Saints, we still lose to Huddersfield... We still beat Wigan at the HJ. We can still get 60 and 40 points put up us. we can still win high scoring matches like 58-22, and we can still get done at home 6-28 by teams like Cas.....and we still rely on Lee Briers to win games.

I'm happy with tony Smith as coach but League form hasnt been anything to write home about really, its what we are used to .... just ok....

fortunately we have a cup semi on the horizon to add a bit of gloss to the season.....

6,7,9 and 13 are the Brains trust; they are the thinkers of the team, hence use their brains rather than their bodies if they can.

A coach I used to play for wittily referred to the front row as the brains' trust, as they were mainly as thick as the proverbial short planks.

It's one way of looking at it, it isn't mine.

Cullen had probably, five or six off & preseasons to make a difference. He didn't do that, Smith hasn't even had one. I'll judge him next year for that reason, and then become maybe, a bit more sceptical in 2011 if there was no improvement.

I think what we've seen is a change in attitude & desire, an improvement in these. And from his recuitment, we can see that he feels it's not a recruitment thing, there's no big Ins & Outs. He clearly feels it's an off season thing, so we'll see I guess.

Si, to be fair to Tony Smith this is a squad that he mainly inherited, apart from Brian Carney who is short term and Richie Mathers who is a vast inmprovement on Stuart Reardon then its Paul Cullen`s and Jimmy Lowes squad.

I`m expecting mixed results for a fair while yet until he can sort out the pivot positions, the back line needs more quality and pace, we need to add some quality to the back row as well. Our 2 starting props are top drawer, we need at least one more impact prop.

Personally i would replace Jimmy Lowes, ive not seen one thing from him yet that makes me feel comfortable or optimistic with him being our number 2, whilst Tony Smith is the England coach their will be other times where Jimmy Lowes will have to prepare the team whilst Smith is away on internationl duty and that doesn`t fill me with much confidence.

I was a bit suprised though at some of the new contracts he has handed out especially to Briers and Louis Anderson, i expect a bumpy road for quite a while as far as we are concerned.