If someone said to me as I was boarding the coach to go Wembley you.ll win today but fall short with play off I.d of snapped his fingers off...big no from me.pricey as earned my respect just for giving me the best sporting day of my life...thank you SP

As a neutral the CC final looked like Warrington put in a one off, excellent performance that was perfectly suited to a final played in 30 degree heat. The reality is to win the Grand Final you would need to replicate that performance (or at least somehwhere near it) on 3 consecutive occasions which isn’t going to happen if it was a one off. There’s no doubting Prices ability to coach in a big game but you’re struggling badly at the moment and it’s difficult to see you winning a Grand Final anytime soon, with him in charge.

This exactly, we were abysmal tonight (not for the first time recently) but we had loads out and were always up against it tonight after such a short turnaround.

One thing I will add, if we do drop out of the top 5 I expect season ticket sales to drop significantly, there has been zero entertainment in our league games for far too long now.

Absolutely this.
The players we had missing tonight they play we would win that game. Salford scored only once our guys tired second half and from a couple of desperate play errors. We still have this in our hands. We may end up 4th by Sunday but we can stay up there as long as we win next 2 games. Shame Wigan and Hull don't play each other over next 2.

Since we appointed Price we've been in 3/3 finals.
Look at where we were and what our thoughts were about our situation at the tail end of the Smith Agar era.

Even if we fail to make the playoffs this year, if someone have said our new coach would take us from the middle 8s, make 3 finals out of 4, winning one - we'd have all snapped their arm off.

We're going through a sticky patch of league form. I'd rather that than be Saints dominating the league but coming up short in the big ones, making 1 final out of 3 and losing.

There is only cups and we already have one...only a form speculative has us losing the GF...'the CC was just a blip...we shouldn't have won it...our form was dreadful. No way will we win the GF...we'll not make the 5....Sack Price...It's Patton's fault.'
What a load of tosh.

To judge anyone on a game a few days after the biggest victory of your career is a bit harsh. Didn't we beat hull 80-10 on the Thursday after they played at Wembley. We were defensively excellent in the first half, then they scored a few tries off errors and we ran out of steam.

Lol. We will miss out on the play offs now though I reckon.

The CC final has definitely papered over the cracks, Saints just performed very poorly, and yes Warrington deserved to win. But does a good cup run mean that a season of poor rugby on the pitch should be ignored, not sure.

Wigan and Leeds fans used to complain about their coaches despite winning grand finals because of the rugby on show.

I personally think Price is bang average as a coach, and winning the cc may set Warrington back a few seasons if it means him keeping his job, whilst ignoring form over 90 percent of the season.

We were talking about this last night and you actually beat Hull 80-10 on the Thursday after you lost at Wembley last year. Shows it can be done but perhaps the partying takes more out of you than the game. And rightly so!!

Possibly the worst thread I have ever seen on here.

Is it worth a quick recap of the teams we beat on the way to the CC trophy? Certainly a lot of wallpaper to cover the cracks:

Wigan - Reigning league champions
Hull KR
Hull - 2016 and 2017 cup winners
St Helens - greatest team that has ever taken to rugby field

Once we have Austin back we do need to get back to a). winning and if possible b). winning in style, but we're in knockout rugby mode now so winning is what counts.

Earlier in the season we were playing much more expansively, and I'm not aure how fit Austin was prior to the ankle problem tbh - this plus the loss of Ratch dulled our attacking threat.

Next year, I agree - with Austin, Ratch, D Clarke, Widdop, Currie, a fit BMM (hasn't he been a revelation last two games?) we have a wealth of attacking options and I expect us to reclaim the entertainers tag from the bottlers.

Whats up with people at all ?

We turned up last night with A rightly hungover squad without our first choice from row and halfback pairing , playing an in form team and we ran them close for 60 mins . I was expecting a cricket score to be fair .

Next Friday when we absolutely take wakefield to the cleaners and stick a marker down we'll all be happy and gearing up for a playoff run .

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If you look at last season also, Price may not entertain us every week in the league, but his record in knockout games against big teams is second to none - we've lost two knockout games only (against Cats and Wigan). IF we can stay in the playoff race AND get our best players back and show some our early season attacking form we could surprise those who have written us off.

Last night we faced a full-strength 3rd placed team without Austin, Brown, Hill, Cooper, King, Charnley, Currie and Patton. All but one of those are internationals.

[iAbove all else, we had Hughes and Matty Smith as starting halves![/i Did anyone seriously think we would win with one day of training and a Wembley hangover?