Quote Winslade's Offload="Winslade's Offload"I haven't seen as much RL discussion and games as I would have liked this year but 3 things seem to stand out this season;
1. Recruitment has been poor. Not just cases like Butler, but the the state of our pack going into this season. Everyone on social media, this site and even the Warrington Guardian has been questioning it. Powell is clearly not to blame and was very forthright in stating which players he has recruited. Presumably that can only leave our CEO as the go to man in all this. The buck rests with him anyway because of the role he plays.
2. We don't know whether Powel's coaching is going to pay off yet, but I really like his clear statements as to what is going wrong when we lose and where players need to improve. That is a million miles away from the chaff we repeatedly got from our last coach. Gone are the days when we "trained well before the game".
3. Shaun Wane watched one of our early season games and I recall his comment that "Daryl Powell has a big job on his hands". That rang the alarm bells for me. You could interpret it as 'he is going to a big club' (at a stretch !), but I think he was alluding to the culture, which is notoriously difficult to change in any company or team.
If all that is correct, then it will take Powell some time to work through the playing group, bring in the necessary new recruits and get them all committed and playing the way he want's. I would guess that means this year is a write off and it will be mid season next year before we can assess if all of this is going to work out.'"
To allude to your reprise, if we are still playing like this halfway through next season, it’s hard to see Powell or the CEO here to see the further assessment.
Our season is slightly better than Anderson and Plange and slightly worse than the season that saw a disillusioned TS move on.
It’s hard to write off that the elevation of a water carrier to CEO had a conflict of interest during TS tenure, and the freedom of control TS had getting shoe boxed sized. That restraint of recruitment continued through Price, however there’s no evidence to suggest it has under DP.
I’d expand greatly on our CEO, but it warrants a topic of its own.
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