I attended the fans forum with Steve Price, Karl Fitzpatrick & Prof Broomhead last night. Below is a summary of what was said, its not verbatim because a lot was said.

I was very impressed with Steve Price, he spoke about when he looked back at last season he thought our middle defence was okay but our edge defence needed a fast remedy because we were leaking tries. He said Tyrone Roberts has only had 6 live training sessions with us and it does show and he's expecting our attack to improve when Tyrone gets more game time with Ratch, Daryl, Kev Brown & Dec Patton. Defence is currently his main focus. Said that he is putting in place 2 mini teams of 4 on each edge with a captain for each team. Last Friday SP said Bryson shot out of the line which worked but if it didn't " I would be well up his a%%e" "Things will take time". All 3 speakers were very much in favour of a reserve grade comp & SP spoke how this would improve opportunities for 1st teamers coming back from injury & 1st team players not in the weekends 17. All 3 said Zak Hardaker was class but they indicated Warrington will not be making a bid for him. Steve said he operates a "no d**head policy" at the club (but this was said generally and not in relation to any player). KF & SB spoke about the need for a good new RFL boss & sorting out a tv/media deal and marketing the game better. SB said that last season certain SL clubs had to have a cash handout from the RFL to operate. KF said Steve Price has a "fantastic work ethic" and Steve starts work at 6:30am each day and doesn't leave until its dark. KF says that Steves work ethic from the top is filtering down to the players and KF could see that in action on the pitch.

This is just a brief summary. After the forum I got to speak 1-2-1 with Steve Price he impressed me as very personable and very good with people, these are key skills for a Coach & these skills will help Steve get the most out of his players. Steve seems to have a very good idea of what he wants from the players & clear vision of where he wants our club to be & how he will achieve this.

I was against TS leaving the Club partly because I felt loyal to him for the success he has brought to our club. But I now think Tony leaving the club was the right decision & I'm chuffed we've got Steve Price.

Trophies will be coming our way, it may take longer than us fans want but trophies will be coming our way.

I'd suggest we are not underperforming and are actually performing to somewhere close to our potential.

Without wishing to sound like a broken record, the fact is that our recruitment as been very average in the last few years. The accumulation of those years has slowly built to our present mediocre state.. if you seriously think randomly sacking coaches until we miraculously solve this ingrained problem then you havent the foggiest...

If he didn't win again before the split I bet he would be gone and Henderson in. Cast your mind back to Steve Anderson - how many games did get?

I think it would be fair to judge Steve towards the end of this season. If he has not improved us in that time it's likely he won't. Until then I'm right behind him.

Steve Anderson was given free rein on recruitment and basically put together a whole new squad, which showed absolutely zero quality or potential for improvement in the time he had with them.

Price is still pretty much having to deal with somebody else's mess and it could be argued that they have improved slightly on where we were in September - whereas Anderson was without doubt going backwards very quickly.

This stuff about inheriting a mess doesn't stand up.

In 2016, we won the league leaders' shield and made two major finals. We started 2017 on Betfair as the favourites to win the Grand Final. The debate at the start of 2017 was not "we have a weak squad" but was whether we needed a new coach to start us winning, rather than losing Grand Final.

Last year we had a bad season, but the squad that we started this season with was still strong enough that a lot of people on here thought we should be top 4 minimum.

if you want to know what inheriting a mess is like, ask Daryl Powell. He took over a team left at the bottom of the table, and because the club was in deep financial mess he was forced to sell his best player (Chase) and best young player (Clark).

So finishing outside the top 8, regularly being bummed, spending a huge wedge on a half back who most consider well past his not-that-great best and having most observers acknowledge we have one of the worst backlines in the league isn't a mess?

I'd like to see what folk consider actually a pretty poor position then?