Quote: Boss Hog "I think it started towards the end of the Smith era, when he just seemed to lose interest, took a backseat and allowed Agar to run the show for him.
Price was allowed to stay here for far too long and the situation festered under his tenure.
The fact that Price left Wire on his own terms, without being dismissed. reflects very badly on the Warrington hierarchy.'"
The seeds of that lethargy started when we lost the 2013 GF and lots of key players left. The feeling hung over us that our window with a special team had closed. It's hard to adjust from being a dominant juggernaut to going back in the mix of quite-good-kinda-contenders. The same happened to Cas after they lost the GF in 2017. We lost our edge.
There have been some brief periods where it was revived, eg Sandow's half season hot streak, Price arriving and bringing a new set of ideas and organisation and Blake Austin having a Sandow-like stretch for a few months.
But if you exclude those spells, for the last 8 seasons before this one we were basically in a purgatory of being good enough to be relevant but not good enough to be significant. Then this year we've blown it all up to start again.