I am not convinced Price is totally to blame. KFP would certainly have played a prominent role in recruitment, and yet we have lacked two decent bench props for a long time.
And given a free hand I could never see Price putting Wrench in the team instead of Mamo. He is a conservative animal and putting a very inexperienced academy player in the team for the first game of the season would have been a bridge too far. I suspect the hand of KFP again.
Having said all that his teams have continually looked flat and lacking in ideas. He doesn't seem capable of motivating them or instilling basic rugby moves. The line is flat with the ball passed along like pass the parcel. Nobody runs onto the ball at speed. We don't dominate the tackle, and invariably end up on our backs when we run the ball in. We are clueless near the try line. There are no dummy runners or movement near the ball carrier. That is all basic coaching stuff, rl isn't exactly a game of chess. Last season we saw Watson work miracles with a patched up team of journeymen and rejects. Powell has always got the maximum out of his limited resources, accepting that his best players will get poached at the end of the season. But we are at the opposite end of that spectrum. The club has fantastic facilities and regularly buys in quality players ( well ok, they buy in players I perhaps should say), yet you feel all that has been squandered.
Quote: morrisseyisawire "Have you had too many sugars in your tea again? I suggest you either go and check on your Gran's availability for the rest of the season or go and have a lie down.'"
Granny has been down there all with the first team to make sure I don’t have to eat my words. She done good.
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