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| Price was good for about a season and a third.
I give him credit for his first year, considering how bad we were in 2017. Two finals, knocking a supposedly unstoppable Saints out of the playoffs, was a good effort. He brought resilience to the team and made us look more organised in defence than we had been for a while.
The next year started off well when Blake Austin was running hot. Once he went off the boil things started to fall apart, and quickly. The league had worked us out and we had no Plan B, we were prone to collapsing in games and going on long losing runs. The quality of rugby became dire. And it was basically like that for the rest of Price's time in charge, 2 and two thirds seasons when we were rubbish.
The only time we ever saw that resilience and organisation from the first season again was in the Challenge Cup final. To give Price and that side their credit, that was the most significant performance in my lifetime as a Wire supporter when you take into account the occasion and the opposition. They achieved greatness for one half of rugby when Saints threw the kitchen sink at them and there was no getting through.
But what was really telling about the Price era was how even that high point did not stem the growing discontent for long. A few months later when we went out of the playoffs the mood on this forum was really bad, lots of fans wanted him out already despite winning the Challenge Cup a few months earlier.
So why was there so much negativity about Price by the end of 2019? I think it was because there was a crushing inevitability about what was going to happen for the rest of his time in charge. You could see we were a busted flush, teams had worked us out and it was just going to be the same until we parted company with him. The rugby was so uninspiring and dull, it sucked the life out of the fanbase. It didn't help that this was the era when Fitzpatrick was in peak -talking mode, making big statements to the press about how only the Super League title was acceptable and we wanted to be one of the biggest brands in global sport and doing wind-ups of other clubs which always backfired on us.
In the later years under previous coaches the fan base had been split, there had been Cullen loyalists and TS loyalists but there were no Price loyalists. There were a few who were slower to call for him to leave than others but you never had the divisive arguments on this forum with some people being loyal to the coach. The Price era had one huge highlight but was largely one of the most forgettable dismal spells in Wire history.
That said, it was better than the Powell era.
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| Quote: rubber duckie "Quack
No official announcement. But gone.
Quack quack.'"
you cant beat a good duckie exclusive.
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| Quote: morleys_deckchair "you cant beat a good duckie exclusive.'"
Thought packs win games and we would win the lot?
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| Quote: Wires71 "Thought packs win games and we would win the lot?'"
file that under 'quack'
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thanks for letting us know.
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