Thought this might be an interesting topic.
What one word best describes your view of the coaches we had / the way played?
No right or wrong.

I'll reserve judgment on Sam because he's not been through a season yet or had fans turn on him (but did initially put 'special' down after listening to him on a podcast and then 'hopeful').

Powell chaos
Price dour
Smith professional
Lowes wrong
Cullen passionate
Plange unfortunate
Andreson crazy
DVDV favouritism
Dorahy overrated

I think Powell's approach was a bit ham fisted at times but we did need to ship out a number of players and change things up. Players telling the club when they will train etc. He also made some excellent signings that we are benefiting from now. He left us in a better shape squad wise than Price did.

Powell Devisive
Price Boring
Smith Almost
Lowes Mistake
Cullen Loved
Plange Caretaker
Anderson Pitiful
DVDV. Alfie
Dorahy Intransigent

Bit unfair to describe price as boring considering some of the massive wins and finals he helped us reach. If we had won the big one when we had the chance, we could play boring rugby all season.

Powell - Unacceptable
Price - Dour
Smith - Change
Lowes - Assistant
Cullen - Passionate
Plange - Tarnished
Anderson - Clueless
DVDV - Culture…
Dorahy - Frustrating

Burgess - Sexy

Cullen - Frivolous.

Exactly that, or "Wasteful" or "Squanderer".

Cullen - proud

Or "underappreciated" seeing some of the other suggestions

Give over. He was the luckiest coach in SL
Few years at Whitehaven then he was in charge of a multi million pound squad featuring some exceptional players and still could only make the play offs now and again, couldn't get us to defend and won absolutely nowt. After us never coached again for any meaningful period.

Don't give me "saved us from relegation" stuff. He won less games than Plange.

Get off the fence W71

Cullen may not have won anything and probably had an average win ratio during his tenure. And perhaps he did stay a year too long. However, i had some of my best years watching Wire during this period. Especially from 2003 to about 2006. We were unpredictable but entertaining and i loved it at the time.

Yes we played some great rugby at times, but then the rose tinted spectacles erase the times such as getting hammered out of the play offs at home by Hull FC in 2005, even with Andrew Johns playing for us.

Losing by 50 points at home to St Helens in 2004, Leeds at home by 44 points in 2004, 52 points away at Cas in 2006, Stuffed by 50 at Bradford in 2006.

He could get his teams up for Wigan games though - I'll give him that.

Loved Cull as a player and his passion for Warrington, but as a coach he was a failure in my opinion. I have some sympathy as he was inexperienced and landed probably the 4th biggest job in northern hemisphere pro RL. With his closeness to the players and lack of any league or CC winning experience as a player he was always going to be up against it.

The only time that Wire have lost to a club in a lower league ever (Excluding friendlies), was our Challenge Cup defeat at Hull KR, who were a Second Division club then.

That was when I realised the Cullen wasn`t upto the job.

Out of that list Smith arrived at the right time and we had a golden period with him, shame he never got us the Grand Final win. But he kept hold of an ageing squad to long and never got the replacements right.