for the job IMHO.
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Decent player for us but it's a no for me.

fair enough matey, entitles to your view, however if you look at the transformation at Blackpool in the time he's been there, incredible. OK he hasn't got a tremendous squad, and they will win a handful of games at best, but a couple of years ago the thought of them winning at all was unthinkable.

So a rookie coach with a couple of wins at Blackpool is the criteria we are looking at????

I see where your coming from mate but i think we need to opt for a little more experience, someone perhaps who has already won at this level and will gain the players respect. We also need a coach who will excite the fans.

Good Ridence to Steve Mc .i cant say i am personally sorry to see him leave.Paul Cullen for the vacant job with John Fieldhouse as his assistant.

Top tackler is obviously John Fieldhouse himself!

I'd say he was Paul Cullen but he didn't make up any words in his post.

One ex w*re in charge would be a nightmare,but two.

Or so say the Daily Post www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/spo ... -22943082/ Not sure but I suspect this is more lazy journalism with the story mostly coming from messageboards. I would not be unhappy with this appointment if it happened. He certainly had Warrington throwing the ball around. The past is the past...

Or so say the Daily Post www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/spo ... -22943082/ Not sure but I suspect this is more lazy journalism with the story mostly coming from messageboards. I would not be unhappy with this appointment if it happened. He certainly had Warrington throwing the ball around. The past is the past...

Correct, he's a proven super league coach who likes expansive rugby, did a very good job for Haven and progressed Warrington well before in many peoples eyes taking them as far as he could.


A good option for the job IMO, i dont care if he's a wire, if he wants to do it and is fully commited then he gets my vote.

Agreed. If hes fully commited, he'll go very well, regardless of whether hes a wire

What has he proven?. If you give him a full salary cap and sign top players he serially under performs?

His Tv analysis is just waffle + cliches.

I like Widnes and would like to see you in SL next time round. There are many coaches better than Cullen.

Agreed.

That story is just based on reading message boards.

Barry Cooper

Looks like they may be giving Stanky a chance?

O'Connor added [i"We've sat down with John and talked about where we're going and he's excited about the challenge ahead.”[/i

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I'm sure there are, but are they available and will they come to a club that is going to be languishing in the Championship for the next three years at least
In terms of the underachieving, at the moment I am not really bothered about overthrowing Leeds or Saints to win SL. I want a coach who is capable of winning enough games to get us the GF appearance or NR win that we need and someone who is not afraid of letting his team throw the ball about.
I think Cullen can tick both boxes. For now it's rumour and speculation but I wouldn't be unhappy if it turned out to be true.

Not a bad man for the job, we could do worse...

Cullen has consitently proved he cannot do this with a top squad of players. If you just want the ball 'throwing around' appoint a basketball coach.

Also in this article;



If I'm honest, I'd like to see Stanky given his chance.

We could always try an Aussie coach for once.

They seem to know a bit about the game down under.

Think we're one of about 2 or 3 clubs never to have had an Aussie in charge.

Please take the unsackable Paul Kidd

Hope you don't minds my lurking on here, was interested to see Widnes fans' responses to the situation.

Its good to see a positive reception to a British coach. We tend to write of a Superleague coach after one club and always focus on the recent past rather than looking at their careers as a whole.

Things had clearly gone stale at Wire under Cullen, but his record of developing the club was impressive. Down under, when a coach gets a bit stale at a club, they tend to move onto the next one, and revitalise whereas British SL coaches just get written off.

He'd be a good choice all round I think. The other thing to mention on his CV I suppose would be the development of the club whilst he was there. He wasn't necessarily pivotal to that, but was around during a period of revitalisation (god "vitalise" must be my word of the day ). Widnes should and will be going places in the next few seasons and I think he's got the right ingredients to be at the helm.