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Should have gone/been sacked at the end of the previous season

Shame it took them so long...

cull goes and in comes lowes...what a great move that turned out to be

World class appointment acording to uncle Doug

Should of never been manager in the first place, you can never appoint a manager that has a link to the club

Let's not rewrite history.

Cullen was a positive chapter in the club's history. We were an absolute shambles when he took over and the team he inherited was the poorest I've ever seen. (And trust me that takes some doing.) From there he took us to the play offs in the next season - that Wigan game being one of the most memorable moments for many a season up to that point.

Over his tenure we on the whole played exciting rugby and had some highs such as the Leeds game in the play offs and many others. He just couldn't take us that extra step to consistent and sustained success.

Most managerial careers end in failure but on the whole I wouldn't tag Cullen a failure - he just couldn't match up to the high expectations. The fact we had them in the first place is testament to the job he did.

I always thought that PC should have appointed an experienced No 2 (eg., Kear, McRae) to bounce ideas off.

Although, we did have more good times than bad under Cull - sad that people only remember his failings.

Had he not been appointed we would have been in what was then NL 1, and we may not have got back into SL.

Not true.

Why?

Yeah and the big sit down protest

What he did was hardly an extraordinary feat and who's to say we wouldn't have done better with [ianyone[/i else?

Roughly same win/loss ratio as Plange, so the same could be said of him too?

Remember Plange contributed 8 pts during his tenure, PC 4 pts, Anderson 2 pts.

You still haven't told me why I'm wrong. Point is, had we won none out of 6, it was bye bye.

You said "Had he not been appointed we would have been in what was then NL 1, and we may not have got back into SL".

No evidence to suggest we would have been relegated without his appointment. And there is no evidence to suggest we would not have got back into SL if we were, indeed, relegated. That is why you are wrong.

However saying "had we have won none from 6, it was bye bye" is correct.

Profound apologies. I didn't know that I wasn't entitled to an opinion. I bow to your far greater knowledge.

You asked just a couple of posts above "You still haven't told me why I'm wrong"

I answered and explained. Of course you are entitled to an opinion.

In general what many people don't realise is that Plange was probably more instrumental in our surviving in SL by pulling off unlikely wins against Hull FC away and Leeds to name just two. Under Plange we won 8 of our 14 "survival" points.

Also people dont remember that under PC we lost our last 2 games which, if results hadn't been favourable, would have led to relegation.

I just don't get this PC saviour thing.

we did`nt when lowes was in charge

There never is any evidence for things that never happened

Yes i did.

58-4 to Wigan's young team suggests to me Plange was heading into a strong downward spiral. The decision to replace him was the correct one.

Also there is no evidence to support had we been relegated, we would have been promoted, so he isn't wrong at all. He is offering up a theory that relegation would have seen this club be no more. More than likely it would have folded without the Sky cash.

As plausible as any other.

Does not support the argument that had PC not been appointed we would have been relegated.

We won 4 points will PC from a possible 12 when all said and done.

We were safe by the last 2 games though.
Also the signings of Nat Wood and Westwood proved huge especially as we were weakening one of our relegation rivals.
Those two players imo turned out to be 2 of our better ones in recent times.