Quote: sally cinnamon "Where would you put the post 2012 TS in that list of coaches?
He reached 2 Grand Finals, a Challenge Cup Final and won a League Leaders' Shield - how does that stack up against Johnson, Dorahy, Cullen etc...'"
TS was indeed the best coach in the last how ever many years, and most on here recognise that.
Some, like me, acknowledge that but believe that we should have replaced him earlier as it was time for a fresh start and with the amount the club have invested we didn’t get the same return as those clubs investing less but winning more.
It’s not that we don’t appreciate Smith it’s just that clubs like Wigan, Saints and Leeds wouldn’t have persevered so long with one coach. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to demand better from what is clearly the club with the most resources. TS was fantastic, but his time came and went and life DOES exist after him. Price came here with a poor record and had to quickly assemble a team from scratch, but has still managed to get us competing fairly quickly. He may or may not win us a trophy but change was defintiely needed.