Paul Cullen from today's press conference now on the Official Site

That's a good honest response from from PC. He clearly sees the problem, and that's very encouraging, and it's good to hear that he's looking to do something about it.

Like he says, it may take time to find the players we need.

Not too good on the injury front though. Just as we think we're getting players back, Fletcher, Yates and Gaskell are on the injured list and it would appear Hartley and Morrison have no comeback dates at present - could be 2 weeks?

According to Beano, in the TIW forum, we're looking to sign Jamie Foster on loan from St Helens, when Tyrer's loan spell is over.

I don't know how he knows this.

It's good that he's confirmed that you don't have a full time squad. This is important when fending off those taunts of "You are a FT squad and you lost blah blah blah". I for one did think you had a FT squad. In my humble opinion - you have the right man in Cullen. He will pull the squad up by the bootstraps and make the necessary acquisitions next year.

I think, given the level of the salary cap in the Championship, it would be nigh on impossible to assemble a completely full time squad anyway.

That's what you want from a coach, honesty and the knowledge that whole club is pulling in the same direction and grafting hard.

On another note, did Fev go full time this year?

PC being fair and honest to the fans.

We are in a league with plenty of heart and we need to find our heart which will take a wee bit of time yet.

It must be uncomfortable for the players at the moment because Paul has now taken control and looks like a re build of a squad is on the cards soon.

Then again you would think the players would double their efforts to keep at the club wouldn`t you ??? ( jumping the gun there as it might be another problem all together behind the scenes)

Yet again another mystery of Widnes RLFC whats going wrong and why is it not being fixed ??

As someone who supported Widnes's bid for SL franchise, I come in peace.
But the remarks from Cullen are eerily familiar to us Warrington fans.
When he talks about defence, we only have to remember the inept defence tactics he employed at the HJ.
Despite that, best of luck at the next franchising - I miss the derby games.

The most worrying aspect is our attack is much worse than our defence.

ask SL teams how they get round it

No, apparently Powell has them in for early morning training (before their regular jobs) and then in again later in the day.

This was certainly the case in pre season.

Thank you. I was under the impression they were until someone else said they weren't. What about the Frogs? In fact is anyone full time this season?

How many full time players do Widnes have? This isn't an attempt to wind anyone up, nobody may know on here.

Think we at Fax probably have 3 or 4 (watene, worrincy, black....i maybe wrong) who all work within the community department. Theres no point having say 10 fulltime players who train fulltime and then the rest come in on a evening, it'd be impossible to work on tactics etc. The best way is obviously all the players being fulltime but other than that clubs are probably better off having everybody training together part time.

As a side thought I presonally think Fev will run out of steam before the season ends.

Toulouse overseas players are effectively full-time. Quite a few of the young lads they have don't have a job but have "apprentice" status - they go to college as well as playing rugby. So don't get paid much but don't really have a day job. They're planning to make more of the squad full-time next year.

I don't see how any squad can truly be full-time given the level of salary cap.

About 8 of the Toulouse lads are full-time according to a conversation I had with their prop Brendan Worth after their thumping against Widnes.