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| Yes I agree on the point about lack of logic, some of our criticisms seem to face both ways and I'm not sure where I stand either.
Price seems to like Matty Ashton, he picked him up out of the championship and fast tracked him into the first team and he played him in his preferred position of fullback even when that meant favouring him ahead of one of the "established names" in Ratchford. Now you can criticise him for this and say Ashton should wait his turn till Ratchford leaves or be shoved out into an unfamiliar position - previous Wire coaches would have done this - but its not the same critique as Price doesn't give young players a shot. A lot of young players with pace burst on to the scene, then have a couple of rocky moments and get discarded, so if Price sticks by Ashton that's a pretty progressive attitude.
Then look at how Price has treated Ben Currie. He stuck by him for a long time when he was coming out of his injuries and was underperforming - previous Wire coaches would have kicked him to the kerb. Is this a good thing (he likes home grown players) or is it a bad thing (he picks players off past reputation rather than current form, some players are undroppable).
On the recruitment point I agree with Lord Tony Smith. From about 2010 to 2013 we had a top class squad, probably top 2 in the league (I preferred our squad to Wigan, but would have taken Leeds over ours because of their core of experienced match winners). From 2014 onwards it felt more like we had half or two-thirds of a top class squad. We had a number of top players leave around that time and in trying to replace them we've had a revolving door of players that haven't worked. Time has gone on and we've invested money but we haven't got the returns that we did on signings from about 2007 to 2012 when every year we were making a couple of signings that really worked out.
As a result, ever since 2014 we've been more like the 4th or 5th best squad in SL (not sure that reflects salary cap expenditure, but in terms of calibre of squad thats where I think we are). And the performances have basically reflected that. So with later TS (apart from the last horrible season) and Price, we've pretty much delivered to par. In terms of making finals we may have overachieved.
I'm not convinced about Price but I think the poor recruitment is a bigger priority to address than the coach, otherwise the same issues will arise. If this was the NFL, we'd be looking to recruit a new General Manager this year, and see how the coach works with him. We have a decent core of players, but need to fix this revolving door aspect, where we've never replaced the key retirements, and just keep cycling through high profile signings that don't work out. You can fix it from the Academy or from shrewd free agent/transfer signings, and the best teams like Wigan have been very good at both.
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| Was that just before Brian Moseley took flying lessons .? Watched the Ipcress File the other night . Typical Michael Caine & that Sue Lloyd was fit in her day .
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| Quote: ninearches "Was that just before Brian Moseley took flying lessons .? Watched the Ipcress File the other night . Typical Michael Caine & that Sue Lloyd was fit in her day .'"
You would need the skills of a necromancer to pursue her now. And Bryan.
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| Mr Winslade ,i have not yet trodden that particular avenue . ![Very Happy icon_biggrin.gif](images/smilies//icon_biggrin.gif)
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| Quote: ninearches "Mr Winslade ,i have not yet trodden that particular avenue .
A grave mistake ?
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| Needs to hammer the fitness regime, we’ve all accumulated some additional timber the past year or so.
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