Cullen: Saints are world's best offloaders (From Warrington Guardian)

Cullen: Saints are world's best offloaders

11:59am Tuesday 6th May 2008

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PAUL Cullen has warned that Wolves will face the best offloading side in the world when they take on St Helens in the fifth round of the Challenge Cup on Saturday.

Wolves have been handed a tricky trip to Knowsley Road in the last 16 and had a good look at their opponents' skills during a 30-22 home defeat in the league last week.

Cullen was impressed with some of Saints' play during that game, which saw Paul Clough become an unlikely hat-trick hero at The Halliwell Jones Stadium. The Wolves boss said: "St Helens came up with 31 offloads and at points they were simply hitting and throwing it over their shoulder.

"You know it's going to happen and you know when it's going to happen but stopping it is another matter.

"They are the best team in the world of rugby league when it comes to offloading the ball.

"I thought we handled Cunningham and Roby as well as anyone possibly could in general play and I thought we handled them very well on our try line.

"Unfortunately it was Paul Clough this time who barged over from short range."

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