10:59am Sunday 11th May 2008
WOLVES head coach Paul Cullen said he was left devastated by the cup defeat to St Helens and added that another team will have to pay.
"We attempted to control everything in our power," he said.
"There's very little we could do with the injury situation that got thrown at us pre-game and during the game, and there was absolutely nothing we could do to control the performance or the competence of the officials.
"We can only really work on what's within our power.
"We were in there until the very last second.
"I'm absolutely devastated we didn't win the match.
"We have gone full length, we've gone full width and we've gone over the full 80 minutes and for the game to go against us on a fraction that is out of our control is almost unbearable.
"It was a big game atmosphere and a big game mentality and I thought we brought that with us.
"You do get rocked when you're faced with difficulties out of your control.
"We arrived at the ground and Martin Gleeson goes on a drip in the dressing room, hit with a virus overnight.
"The medics did as much as they possibly could to get him into the warm-up.
"But we lost him during the warm-up. He lost all sense of direction, was disorientated, and the medics were concerned about him.
"So Paul Johnson made a very late switch and Chris Riley, who was only a travelling 18th man, presented himself and played as well as he possibly could under very difficult circumstances until he twisted his ankle and did his ligaments.
"We lost Stuart Reardon with a ruptured Achilles' and Paul Johnson with knee ligaments.
"We took a few punches but that should not detract from the effort, the quality and the skill that was exhibited.
"I'm very proud of the way that we prepared for the game and I've got nothing but admiration about the way the players went about their business.
"We opened up and scored some very good points.
"There aren't many weak links in the St Helens defensive set up but we created an awful lot."
And where do the injuries leave Wolves for the Super League game against Wigan on Friday?
"We're not quite sure as yet," said Cullen.
"We're a little bit battered in the dressing room physically as well as mentally.
"But the bottom line is someone's got to pay for that."
mark from warrington, warrington says...
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frustrated of, warrington says...
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shedhead, Runcorn says...
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stubblesteve, woolston says...
12:00am Mon 12 May 08
frustrated of wrote:so losing big glees, parker, before the game and reardon 6 mins in, pennrs booboo, sts forward passes, ball strip from johnson,riley injured,losing johnson didnt have a bearing on the game, give credit it were its due we pushed sts to the limit. well done lads just need to keep it up every week. come on u wolves, easy to criticise with hindsite. what could cull have done any differant yesterday in regards to tacktics, game plan. not alot in my opinion. but what do i know. if our defence was bad, sts not far behind. penny gifted them one try nothing to do with our defence. just a bizzare mistake
It is my opinion that we didn't control Saints going through us to score forty points that lost us the game. Surely that is within our control.
stubblesteve, woolston says...
12:00am Mon 12 May 08
frustrated of wrote:so losing big glees, parker, before the game and reardon 6 mins in, pennrs booboo, sts forward passes, ball strip from johnson,riley injured,losing johnson didnt have a bearing on the game, give credit it were its due we pushed sts to the limit. well done lads just need to keep it up every week. come on u wolves, easy to criticise with hindsite. what could cull have done any differant yesterday in regards to tacktics, game plan. not alot in my opinion. but what do i know. if our defence was bad, sts not far behind. penny gifted them one try nothing to do with our defence. just a bizzare mistake
It is my opinion that we didn't control Saints going through us to score forty points that lost us the game. Surely that is within our control.
stubblesteve, woolston says...
12:00am Mon 12 May 08
frustrated of wrote:so losing big glees, parker, before the game and reardon 6 mins in, pennrs booboo, sts forward passes, ball strip from johnson,riley injured,losing johnson didnt have a bearing on the game, give credit it were its due we pushed sts to the limit. well done lads just need to keep it up every week. come on u wolves, easy to criticise with hindsite. what could cull have done any differant yesterday in regards to tacktics, game plan. not alot in my opinion. but what do i know. if our defence was bad, sts not far behind. penny gifted them one try nothing to do with our defence. just a bizzare mistake
It is my opinion that we didn't control Saints going through us to score forty points that lost us the game. Surely that is within our control.
stubblesteve, woolston says...
12:00am Mon 12 May 08
frustrated of wrote:so losing big glees, parker, before the game and reardon 6 mins in, pennrs booboo, sts forward passes, ball strip from johnson,riley injured,losing johnson didnt have a bearing on the game, give credit it were its due we pushed sts to the limit. well done lads just need to keep it up every week. come on u wolves, easy to criticise with hindsite. what could cull have done any differant yesterday in regards to tacktics, game plan. not alot in my opinion. but what do i know. if our defence was bad, sts not far behind. penny gifted them one try nothing to do with our defence. just a bizzare mistake
It is my opinion that we didn't control Saints going through us to score forty points that lost us the game. Surely that is within our control.
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The Brigadier, says...
12:26pm Mon 12 May 08
shedhead wrote:It tells me that we must be doing OK, to be higher up the table than two teams who are, according to you, performing consistently better than us!
Look what Kear has done at Wakefield. Look what Justin Morgan has done at Hull KR, look what Mick Potter has done at Catalans. You have to say that on paper we have much the better players yet all three teams are consistently performing better than we are. What does that tell you ?
The Brigadier, says...
12:26pm Mon 12 May 08
shedhead wrote:It tells me that we must be doing OK, to be higher up the table than two teams who are, according to you, performing consistently better than us!
Look what Kear has done at Wakefield. Look what Justin Morgan has done at Hull KR, look what Mick Potter has done at Catalans. You have to say that on paper we have much the better players yet all three teams are consistently performing better than we are. What does that tell you ?
The Brigadier, says...
12:26pm Mon 12 May 08
shedhead wrote:It tells me that we must be doing OK, to be higher up the table than two teams who are, according to you, performing consistently better than us!
Look what Kear has done at Wakefield. Look what Justin Morgan has done at Hull KR, look what Mick Potter has done at Catalans. You have to say that on paper we have much the better players yet all three teams are consistently performing better than we are. What does that tell you ?
The Brigadier, says...
12:26pm Mon 12 May 08
shedhead wrote:It tells me that we must be doing OK, to be higher up the table than two teams who are, according to you, performing consistently better than us!
Look what Kear has done at Wakefield. Look what Justin Morgan has done at Hull KR, look what Mick Potter has done at Catalans. You have to say that on paper we have much the better players yet all three teams are consistently performing better than we are. What does that tell you ?
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