That game was lost in the selection for the starting line up.
Ever since the coaching masterstroke of playing Hughes at standoff in the Cup final price has been obsessed with throwing swerve balls
Naming Ratch at 1 and Inglis at 3 today and then starting the game the other way round really had Watson puzzled.
Forget the fact that we had the smallest wing / centre partnership with a new second row combination against Sezer / Edwards and Lutele. That side destroyed King, Mamo and Thewlis.
And then on the other side we had a new edge combination.
It took Price 35 minutes and 3 unanswered tries before he figured out what had gone wrong.
I still cannot get over the incompetence of starting the season with King on the left edge knowing full well that when inglis gets fit he will start at left centre and King will switch. Why not allow King to start the season at right centre to build combinations with Hughes, Austin and Charnley.
There used to be a channel 4 series called faking it where they would train a sheep shearer to work in Tony & Guy. I think we are in a similar social experiment whereby we have a total imposter at the helm
I have nothing against any of the player's, there was enough on the pitch to do a job tonight but just swap a second rower for another back rower. The experiment and mind games didn't work.

Can somebody tell me when Ratchford last had a decent game? He's finished, as are Austin, Charnley, J Clark and Inglis

Ratchford was woeful and has been woeful for quite a while yet seems he can do no wrong by Warrington fans. Dropped a simple pass early doors tonight, hudds scored off the back of it, no one seemed bothered. We would benefit massively from this man's departure - been a hugely overrated thorn in our side for a long time.
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Nailed on. Powell will be rubbing his hands in glee at the prospect of working with Currie, and Ben can look forward to being put into gaps not brick walls.

Seems like Ratchford is the new incumbent of the blame game.

Not a great night for him admittedly, but he was still better than Charnley, Austin, Widdop and Inglis in the backs, and better value than several of the forwards as well.

I'd have a lengthy list of people to drop before I reached his name.

Agreed. Forwards weren't awful tonight though, I don't think anyone was truly horrific individually but the collective effort for the first half hour at least was really poor. Hills Ill discipline cost us again especially for their first try I just wish he could cut that out of his game completely.

*sighs* come on we all know by now Price will be here till end of season no matter how much we want him gone now. The one thing we do know is the club never do anything quickly except upset the fans.

People blaming Hill but bizarre terrace favourite Akuola gave two soft penalties away back to back during his ten minute stint that changed the momentum of the game in the second half.

Utterly useless.

And as above, taking our best attacking threat constantly out of his best position makes zero sense.

Thankfully Price and his useless ‘assistants’ are all gone at the end of the season. Stealing a living with their record.

Said it before, why are we just too laid back cocky, “under the radar” as Philbin says, come out like doing a fecking John Wayne walk!
Another game we cannot score first and are chasing from minute 2.
Embarrassed

Catalan (away) - wasn't really that long ago now was it.

Akouala is a poor version of Danny Lima. And Lima was a poor version of a prop!

He touched the ball 4 times in his first stint. Could play Lineham at prop and get a better return than that. And the penalty he gave away turned the momentum of the come back.

Don’t get me wrong, he’s not to blame. I’m pretty sure if he was asked to play more minutes then he would (See BMM, who played big minutes again last weekend)

The coach is clueless. Doesn’t know what his best team is, doesn’t know what he wants his best team to play like. The guy is in his 4th year, Michael McGuire changed the way Wigan played in 2, and they still play the EXACT same way now 10 years and 2 coaches on. In Smith’s 4th year, we had identity, a style. Price he’s talked about fixing the defence, then he’ll start on the attack. Well it’s not fixed, and it’s not looking close!

Utter tripe, and realistically another year is at risk of being wasted. Big three weeks coming up, if Cas do us again, we have to turn up at Salford or we’ll go into the Semi in a really poor state.

I've no idea whether Watson is a better coach than Powell, time will tell but BOTH are better than Price IMO.

I'm not going to trawl back through the pages but my comment was aimed at the folly of starting a thread so early in Watson's tenure at a new club, with a squad that has been reassembled and will have had their play books ripped up.

Oh and he does have a record of turning us over and if push came to shove given the option I'd have taken Watson

Watson team talk against us is likely to be as simple as this: prices team like to settle in to the arm wrestle and then grind points out of you but if you hit them hard quickly and put some points on them they will fall to pieces for a while and it's likely you will get some more points when you move the ball about as they start to panic about an unassailable lead.

That's all it takes to out coach our lot.

You know winning the CC in 2019 might have been the worst thing to happen to us. 3 years wasted ever since. Had we not won it we’d be sat here enjoying some great attacking rugby and we may have even won a Grand Final or two.

In principle I agree. But it depends who got appointed to replace him.

Let’s not kid ourselves that Powell is a beacon of hope and success, he’s hardly a man of notoriety. One hub cap and a day out on the big stage doesn’t make you Craig Bellamy.

It could (could, not will) get worse before it gets better.