We are slowly getting there. We need to start finishing off our chances. Countless times we didnt take them tonight. Also Wildbore is a greedy get, never fails to keep the ball to himself when theres a chance for someone else to score.

1 Widnes 6 4 0 2 184 90 2 14
2 Barrow 5 4 0 1 139 82 1 13
3 Halifax 4 4 0 0 146 56 0 12
4 Whitehaven 5 3 0 2 162 112 2 11
5 Leigh 5 3 0 2 101 107 2 11
6 Featherstone 4 3 0 1 103 74 0 9
7 Sheffield 6 1 0 5 130 147 5 8
8 Doncaster 4 1 0 3 73 104 2 5
9 Gateshead 5 1 1 3 95 157 0 5
10 Batley 6 1 1 4 102 254 0 5
11 Toulouse 4 1 0 3 98 150 1 4

agree about the subs, i think cullens still experimenting. He seems to have got the attacking right, lets hope he works on our poor defence.

Dont bank on it..

Expect many a 42-30 or 32-36 reverse style scores. Cullen seems to be a believer of the "well we'll just score more than you" strategy. The defence is just an after thought. It was this blindness that ultimately cost him his job at Warrington.

You'll certainly see some good attacking rugby though.

You have agree that Mark Smith has been out of sorts for a few games in a row now. Not going to bag him or anything, but whether its an injury or tiredness or whatever - we're not really seeing a lot from him. Sheffield game he was class - 3 games in a row after that and we've not really seen him. IMO Smith's at his best when he's driving forward, I don't care if people would see it as selfish but if I was him, I'd be running from dummy half a lot more than he has been recently.

To an extent I think Cullen's hands are tied re subs. Wasn't sure why Wildbore went off but otherwise the number of players injured is getting worse.
I think we missed Duffy tonight who has been excellent and I hope he comes back fit and not carrying a knock. I think we need another option at hooker as Smithy has looked out of sorts. With Beswick gone the competition for his place has gone with it as we all know that is where he really wanted to play. I do hear Robinson is playing well in the reserves. Maybe Cull will look at him at some point?
Also heard in the club afterwards that they have been hammering defensive work in training all week! At the moment the technique is just awful with players just grabbing at shirts. We really need to put the shoulder in and bring them down fast but at least it's being worked on.

I am fairly positive after last night... again we had all the possession but we looked fairly good with the ball at times. A little more ingenuity and we will be fine. Some of the plays were class though.
With the raft of players that we have to come back in I think we will be a lot stronger in the weeks to come.

I agree 100% mate

don't count on it

Duffy is a great player even if he is a little overweight.

i agree think he was brilliant for us before he was moved into the forwards, infact i believe he should be starting at scrum half instead of webster. Anyway it will be interesting to see if he plays for widnes again this season in his desired position

I can't understand why people a bigging up Thompson and Kavanagh. When they had both replaced Ostick and Gannon we were f*****g poor. That's when Batley started to get on top and scored their trys. As soon as we had Ostick and Gannon back on we were immediately much better.

Kavanagh may be worth persevering with, but Thompson is useless imo.

I do think Thompson is getting better... from his early season performances he is quite lot better but I agree that we do suffer when we lose Gannon..

Maybe the trick is to start with Gannon and Thompson and then bring on Ostick (as an impact player) with Kavannagh. Not really sure what other options there are at the mo until Morrison is back? Doran?? Not sure!!