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PAUL Cullen has plenty of problems on his plate at the moment over at Widnes.
But if he ever gets the push at the Halton Stadium he should have a lucrative career as a fortune teller waiting for him.
Cullen popped up on Sky last week, in his punditry capacity, and was asked about Halifax's Championship match at Featherstone the following day.
He was predictably fulsome in his praise of Matt Calland's side, particularly their innovative short kick offs.
"They invariably get the ball back...." opined the former Warrington player.
Now, for my money, invariably translates roughly as 'almost every time'.
And that seemed a slight over-egging of the pudding on Cullen's part bearing in mind Fax's favourite ploy had been working once or twice a match in recent weeks.
Less than 24 hours later, Fax tormented Rovers with their restarts, getting the ball back, well, on almost every occasion.
Next week, Mr Cullen will predict the lottery numbers...
STILL on Widnes, there are clearly problems at the Halton
Stadium.
Last week's home walloping by Barrow was the Vikings' third reverse of the year ahead of tonight's equally challenging trip up to Whitehaven.
Without wishing to disrespect Barrow, who are as committed and hard working a team as you will see, Widnes' teamsheet suggests they should be doing rather better than they are.
Which explains the angst currently doing the rounds in Cheshire.
Cullen has already spent some more of chairman Steve O'Connor's cash on bringing centre Steve Tyrer back to the club, with rumours persisting at least one more player - rumoured to be Greco-Aussie front rower Michael Korkidas - will turn up at some point soon.
Personally, I reckon Widnes will turn things around fairly quickly.
It would certainly be a surprise if they weren't live contenders when the real business starts at the end of the year.
A COUPLE of Calderdale's more familiar rugby league faces were back
from their holidays last weekend.
But they were decidedly evasive about their choice of destination for a week in the sunshine.
"Er, America and, er, round there.....," was the vague response.
It subsequently transpired that "round there" meant Mexico, source of the heavily hyped swine 'flu pandemic.
For the record, neither individual had developed so much as a slight sniffle as Courier Sport went to Press, and I'd rather not risk sparking blind panic in local 13-a-side circles by naming them.
But which team has had some colour co-ordinated facemasks hastily made to match their kit?
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