Pricys first mistake was to allow Chris Hill to continue as team captain.
His game has imploded since the initial appointment.

Like I said in a previous post prior to the appointment, he ought to have been club captain but we should have a team field captain too.

See how Hill's performance improved at the world cup without that baggage.

Do we even need a captain?

This whole team needs time to get properly fit and time to gel. They’ve had a minimal pre-season as a squad together. Even though a number have had a full pre-season there are plenty who haven’t so they hadn’t had that time to gel with the coach’s philosophy and routines. Saints were fortunate to get their coach in part way through last season. They had the second half of the season to go through their transition and will hit the ground running this season. When a squad is already familiar with philosophy and routine, it’s easy to slot a few new cogs in here and there and the machine still runs. Whereas I always think the off-season is a difficult time for a coach to take over as he doesn’t get his clock working as a whole for a while as he’s only assembling all the cogs in one go.

Also he doesn’t get to see the team in a proper competitive game for months. You can suss out the deadwood and start planning for next season in terms of transfers during the transition period. Coming in in the Winter means Price won’t suss our who the deadwood are until around the Easter programme or even by Magic Weekend. I think the most important thing for a coach to get to know his squad is by seeing those ebbs and flows from week to week in competitive matches. We won’t be seeing the properly transitioned Price’s Wire until later in the season and we won’t be seeing the best of Price’s Wire until next year.

Just got to be patient.

In terms of what Price is thinking so far: I bet he’s surprised how poor the standard of the league is and bet he’s thinking with a good Winter next year if he can get rid of the deadwood (there’s a few in our squad) and bring in quality, we’ll have a great shout in 2019.

2018, just staying up is the priority.

We need leaders. There should be a group of people who are leaders in a team. I can’t think of any who lead us around the pitch or lead us by organisation defensively.

Smith has left a right mess behind. You have to feel sorry for Price. There's definitely a worry that players are almost naturally reverting to type when things aren't going well this season. It's like the words of Richard Agar are still reverberating around their heads .

Joking aside it will take time for new boys to gel but perhaps more worryingly is that I think when we do it still won't be good enough. We've accumulated some real dead wood that still needs a clear out before it spreads throughout. Full back, wings, stand off, loose all in dire need of replacing.

https://warringtonwolves.com/steve-pric ... ip-widnes/ There you go, 3rd game in and the dreaded we have trained well as reared it’s ugly head lmao.

https://warringtonwolves.com/steve-pric ... ip-widnes/ There you go, 3rd game in and the dreaded we have trained well as reared it’s ugly head lmao.

The army camp did wonders compared to doing warm weather training

Don’t forget before being regular top three finishers we finished tenth in Smith’s first season and we had a better squad then than we do now

All this "poor Steve Price" malarkey is really dunking my biscuit.

I would [ihope[/i that Price did his homework before applying for and accepting the job. You know, speak to former players, watch footage of last year, study the squad etc. Just basics if you're gonna move across the planet. If you want to familiarise yourself with Stockton Heath watering holes so you know where to find the team, fine, but look at the raw materials available first.

Regardless of whether he underestimated the size of the job. thought English RL was a walk in the park, didn't bother or was blinded by vanity - his fault.

I said similar to this, if it was me, i would have watched EVERY game from last year, and then EVERY game from the year before to see the contrast from a 'gf contending side' to that pile of e that was walking on the field in 2017.

The club could have just reheated a press released from this time exactly 12 months ago.

"Not far away"

"a good week in training"

" huge belief in this playing group"

"need to be more disciplined, have a higher completion rate"

That would take a solid 3 1/2 days without sleep and toilet breaks.

Think I’ll re read Jude the Obscure for a little light relief.

Well I guess it's certainly one of [iLife's Little Ironies[/i that we in need of [iDesperate Remedies[/i. Presently our pack is like [iA Group of Noble Dames[/i with our new signings like [iThe Three Strangers[/i.

did you say strangers or the three stooges.