Assuming that he's on the nominal £250,000 (Superstar Aussie rate) , and a shirt costing £50 a time, that's 5000 extra we've got to shift, than we normally would.. There'll be his cut, too. WOWSERS. I think we'll need Wigan, Saints and Widnes fans to start buying them. At the moment, he's not exactly earning his corn, and I've not seen anyone wearing such merchandise.

Glib post match clichés

Maybe he was brought over here to be player-coach...

Can't say I have but as soon as the h and j doors open and crowds are allowed in you.ll see the mugs that have bought one..it never fails .Moran and Lomax are laughing at us

Nah, cos we thought we'd seen those off when Smith went.

Really weak bench today, i don't understand philbin as a starting 13 i think he's wasted. He should come off the bench to inject the speed and energy we need. Widdop played better then i've seen before and if he had people backing him up on his runs he could put some people through some gaps.
I don't like Ratchford at centre and should stay at fullback, but until Inglis is ready i'd put him at right centre and Ashton at fullback.
Mulhern was steady and a good interchange for Hill.
For me the bench should be Walker or Clark which ever price decides to start, Mulhern, Mamo and Butler or Robson.
There were some really good attacking and set plays from us which i haven't seen for a long time. But we are already very left side dependant. Austin is trying but just can't seem to fire well, Hughes is dependable and defensively good but his attack is STILL none existant. Wrench was ok and overhyped Charnley had a poor game. But it's only the first game so i'm not going in to overreaction panic mode yet. If by the 3rd - 4th game we haven't improved then i'll join the price out campaign ha ha ha

When were there some good attacking set plays cos I didn't see em unless a kick to the sky's is a good set play we are poor just like last year

Some disturbing signs in the game today.
I noticed and the commentators picked up on Ratchford turning up on the right edge as an extra pivot but tipped the ball on about 5 yards before the defensive line. I found that very odd. I could have defended that play. Compare that to Trueman who plays very close to the defence to draw defenders.
Perhaps the most worrying was the kick pressure applied for the Cas drop goal (or lack of it). I was astounded that nobody really broke into a sprint to chase down Mcshane.
It felt like that every player was expecting somebody else to put pressure on the kicker. The reason that rings alarm bells is that it reminded me a lot of the later Tony Smith era when sometes the hooker would get caught in possession and play the ball with nobody there because all the players thought that somebody else would do the job of going to dummy half.
Once you see those signs in a team the writing is on the wall.
It is not the odd fumble or brain fart that worries me it is the lack of responsibility. There were some very experienced players in the fram when the replay showed the defenders who should have been pressurising McShane.

The clichés are the disappointing on-field performances, the coaches who claim brighter things are just around the corner, and the fans who believe them.

I’m thinking 10 games, lose 5 or more he should be gone.

Yesterday’s performance and result didn’t surprise me one bit, pretty much what we’ve seen for the last 2 years. We will probably labour to win against Leigh on Friday though.

Sadly, I think we're kidding ourselves if we think Price is going to get the bullet - unless we really are in the sh*t after a couple of months the club has neither the nous, bottle or initiative to have a plan in place.

Price has actually played a blinder here. By making his announcement so soon to the start of the season he removed any chance the club had to force an early exit, not that they are likely to have done, and anyone outside of the club coming in mid-season is left with the debris of his close season work and at a disadvantage.

Those who saw Leigh v Wigan won't be at all surprised if we get a caning; they have something in spades we totally lack - enthusiasm.

I think they'll be a 'mutual consent' in probably May or something.

It seems the fans want him gone and it looks as though the players do too.

The writings on the wall for an early exit.