I wonder if we've considered that kind of thing (other than the brief Anderson/Plange experiment).

Our recruitment has been poor for a while and we could do with someone with a lot of experience and background in identifying talent and bringing them through. The older generation of coach: Noble, Sheens, Brian Smith, Kear, could all be of interest.

God forbid but if we get beat tonight what then for Price?

The next flight home hopefully.

No, after those 3, TWP becomes the 1st game.

This “if you want something enough you can get it” seems to be a modern myth amplified by reality tv. I really want to win Euro Millions, I mean really, really and yet still no win.
There are numerous reasons we haven’t won a GF some of them may have been down to bad decisions some bad luck...
The truth is sport is unpredictable

no such thing as luck.
Not winning the lotto is down to probability odds against and wanting has no effect upon odds however many fingers you cross.
Not winning a GF is down to lesser ability where and when opportunity arose.

Shouldn’t be considering Noble in any role. His success at Toronto, Salford and Crusaders is hardly stellar. Well past his sell-by date for any position.

Noble was the director of rugby for a club who without recalling players from loan and signing A N Other to play as an amateur, wouldn’t have enough players to fill a team. You’d assume that he would have oversight of the squad, given the title. Pathetic really.

Don’t touch him, his times been and gone.

Yet it has been fairly predictable (ie 100%) in that either Wigan, Saints or Leeds has been in the GF for 22

LuckSuccess or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions.
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In short luck is, by its very definition, down to probability.

No Captain Hooks lottery example was not a good example.

I think bad luck may have cost us 1 GF with the injury to Monaghan, but not 4 GFs.

Opportunity, capability, attitude.

The national lottery isn't random.

I’ve felt for a while that what we need is a right b&stard whose attitude is win or get out of my dressing room.

I think my point about the lottery has been misunderstood, I was dealing with the issue of “if you want something enough you will get it” theory. Not the why haven’t we won the GF.
Reductio ad absurdum

I get the feeling those days are gone.
Murphy In RL
Ferguson in football.

These days, stats, player welfare (especially mentally), a huge emphasis on tactics. Things have gone in a different direction, now.

Granted, Wane is/was a very modern day version of the term "b&stard", but to those he's known for the last decade or so, he's ruled by fear, because people who know him, know him to be a "b&stard".Put him into a different dressing room (in modern times), he'll be hated/ignored/hounded out.
He's not lasted long in Scottish 3 point. Maybe he's upset the kilt wearers.