Please forgive my ignorance here, but if Karl Fitzpatrick has indeed got anything to do with our recruitment, then what exactly are his qualifications for doing so?

From memory, he was a bog standard player, he's never been a successful coach, he's got zero connection with our club, he's basically no more qualified for his job than most of us on here, so how, or why, is he in the position he is in?

By the way, this isn't intended to completely slate him, I'm just genuinely curious how he has got the job he has and, if recruitment is at least partly down to him, why we have chose to give him such responsibility when he appears to have little qualification for it.

Insanity

Add to this, the rumour (it MAY be a true story), that the recruitment of Burrell was down to Moran fancying taking a punt on him.
That's right. A concert promoter recruiting an ageing fella from another sport. Our recruitment since 2010, bar the obvious few, is poor, bordering on shambolic

Our next 3 games are Wigan (who won't play as badly again) , Cats ( big pack in autumn conditions) and Leeds (who ALWAYS play end of season rugby well) , finishing the season against Saints. With play off places being done by %age points, I'd say our place in them is anything but "nailed on".

Price MUST earn his money

To be fair to Mr Moran, if I'd put as much cash into the club as he has, then I might want to occasionally play fantasy rugby and fetch in some odd, almost unexplainable signing at random moments ( Johns was another of those and we tend to look back more fondly on that brief moment in our history).

Burrell was indeed an odd signing, but in the grand scheme of things was a no lose situation with regards to salary cap impact. It's the signings of the likes of Latu and Sita that need questioning with more scrutiny - whoever 'scouted' and recommended the likes of those 2 seriously need their position at the club reviewing.

They probably watched the YouTube clips we got shown in the stadium and thought let’s sign them

Wigan will be a tough match. Both teams with equal rest periods looking to put right a semi final loss.

Leeds and Catalans are both 'four pointers', the good news is that Leeds play in the CC final a few days afterwards so they may rest players, but this will be a huge risk for them if they are to make the top four. Depending upon how other results go Catalan could be make or break. It's also scheduled to be played at their place.

Top four is anything but nailed on.

Was partly why I made the comment, it’s funny how you never see the highlights of when they have had crap games. And before anyone says why would they, ofc I know why.

I would suggest that perhaps having almost unlimited funds is both blessing and a curse. We seem to be almost reckless with our spending, and ithe attitude seems to be if such recklessness means we sign a few duds well ....... we dip back into the monopoly money.

I'm no Liverpool fan but I.compare their measured, prudent, considered transfer dealings (which have delivered sucess and entertainment from a relatively small outlay) with the likes of Chelsea who once again have turned their back on youth and splurged daft money in the pursuit.

We need to try the Liverpool model a bit more; spend every penny like it's our last and excercise some diligence and restraint. The exception to this is the coaching setup - our next marquee signing shouldn't be a player.

Bit of an over-reaction here. We spent far too much time in yesterday's game kidding ourselves that the sun was out, the pitch was bone dry and the stakes were low. That we managed a portion of the match playing the right style for the conditions (just as Leeds did for 80 minutes) shows this was the players, not the coach. I don't fall into the camp that Price should keep his job here automatically for another season. But if he is simply sacked because we fail to win the GF where do we get our next coach? Price himself seems to have, to some degree, got this job because we couldn't find anyone better. Do we want to be in the same boat again?

If we can waste money on a retired Aussie superstar, then I'd suggest that, if we tried hard enough, we could get a better coach than Price in??....

I tend to agree that this board has a tendancy to go over board and fairly quickly. Our poor start it was the Price isn't right. Our winning streak was probably over hyped and the Cup defeat sees us back to our early season pessimism

Champagne to Pomagne in 80 minutes.

Did we make a mess of it yesterday undoubtedly but I think that its fair that the coach and team are judged when our season is over not on a game by game basis

I don't think anyone is suggesting getting rid of Price at this exact moment. However, some are quite rightly suggesting that if at season's end we are trophyless, then it is time to move him on, as 3 years is ample time to have brought SL success and that it would be time to find an alternative.