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| Quote: thepriestman85 "Seems like the guy has all the experience we’ve been asking for. He’s certainly worked with some top RU teams and gained valuable knowledge in football and the NFL. I wonder if he was at Bolton when big Sam was there as Sam was known for experimenting with new fitness regimes and thinking outside of the box.
The only SLIGHT reservation I have on the guy is his time at Gloucester who imo are major underachievers (prob not his fault btw) and a club I’ve always associated with the miss handling of Pryce’s foot injury. I know Pryce IL & Noble have all gone on record questioning the professional advice that was given to Pryce after his injury and blamed a lot of the setbacks on that poor advice as well.'"
Like you say Lenegan did question Pryce's treatment by Gloucester but you would hope that Ian hasn't got that short a memory and that the Pryce debacle had nothing to do with are new S & C coach. |
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| Quote: thepriestman85 "The only SLIGHT reservation I have on the guy is his time at Gloucester who imo are major underachievers (prob not his fault btw) and a club I’ve always associated with the miss handling of Pryce’s foot injury. I know Pryce IL & Noble have all gone on record questioning the professional advice that was given to Pryce after his injury and blamed a lot of the setbacks on that poor advice as well.'"
He wasn't at Gloucester when Pryce was there so no worries on that score.
Remember Karl's had two glorious years with us. |
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Another article about him. All sounds very good.
rlhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/scotland/2321059/Scotland-looking-finely-tuned.htmlrl
rlhttps://www.cumbria.ac.uk/AboutUs/News/Press%20Releases/2007/December/PR251.aspxrl
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| Quote: Wigan/Leeds Andy "He wasn't at Gloucester when Pryce was there so no worries on that score.
Remember Karl's had two glorious years with us.'"
He will go down as a Wigan legend IMO.
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Don't start saying he was in charge of Karl Pryces fitness at Gloucester that's almost as bad as saying he was Michael Barrymores pool boy or night watchman on the titanic.
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| Quote: LovesToSpooge "Like you say Lenegan did question Pryce's treatment by Gloucester but you would hope that Ian hasn't got that short a memory and that the Pryce debacle had nothing to do with are new S & C coach.'"
I'm sure that not only would it have been brought up in the interview and questions asked about it but I’m also positive that IL will have spoken to Henry Paul about the guy as well. Although Henry won’t have been there when he our new guy was I’m sure he’s still in contact with some of the players who still play there.
On a side note if this is anything to go by (dismiss the toff comments btw) it’s a mixed bag of opinions from the Gloucester fans;
rlhttps://www.gloucesterrugby.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb
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| Quote: Wigan/Leeds Andy "He wasn't at Gloucester when Pryce was there so no worries on that score.
Remember Karl's had two glorious years with us.'"
Your right we signed him Dec 2007 & i've taken it out of my op 2. |
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| Quote: Wigan/Leeds Andy "He wasn't at Gloucester when Pryce was there so no worries on that score.
Remember Karl's had two glorious years with us.'"
Mark signed with Gloucester in July 10th 2008. rlhttps://www.glasgowwarriors.com/articles/news/005158.phprl
Karl Pryce signed with us 18th December 2007. rlhttps://www.wiganwarriors.com/News_full.asp?newsid
So you are right and we can put that one to bed.
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he was not the conditioner at glouscester he was overseeing sports science. The guy that had direct contact with the team was a very arrogant annoying little kiwi who hated all things rugby league.
Had a few chats with him regards Pryce and all he did was slate him even prior to taking a session with him. He was the bloke responsible for mistreating Pryce not our new man.
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| Quote: thepriestman85 "Seems like the guy has all the experience we’ve been asking for. He’s certainly worked with some top RU teams and gained valuable knowledge in football and the NFL. I wonder if he was at Bolton when big Sam was there as Sam was known for experimenting with new fitness regimes and thinking outside of the box.
The only SLIGHT reservation I have on the guy is his time at Gloucester who imo are major underachievers (prob not his fault btw) and a club I’ve always associated with the miss handling of Pryce’s foot injury. I know Pryce IL & Noble have all gone on record questioning the professional advice that was given to Pryce after his injury and blamed a lot of the setbacks on that poor advice as well.'"
Remember that, but wasn't it the medical advice that was questioned by Wigan? It wasn't necessarily anything to do with the strength and fitness guys. |
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| Quote: thepriestman85 "
On a side note if this is anything to go by (dismiss the toff comments btw) it’s a mixed bag of opinions from the Gloucester fans;
rlhttps://www.gloucesterrugby.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb'"
Gloucester are in the sh/t anyway so I'm not surprised by there reaction if I were in there position I'd be looking for a scape goat to.
Either way he's with us now and I'm confident that McGuire and the rest of the team will have done there homework and got the right man, everything is lead by the man at the top which in are case is McGuire and with his background I don't think we'll have picked a dud. |
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| Quote: Cruncher "Remember that, but wasn't it the medical advice that was questioned by Wigan? It wasn't necessarily anything to do with the strength and fitness guys.'"
Your right and the new guy wasn't there at the time either.
I got my dates wrong and i've taken my only reservation out of my original post 2. |
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| Quote: jonh "he was not the conditioner at glouscester he was overseeing sports science. The guy that had direct contact with the team was a very arrogant annoying little kiwi who hated all things rugby league.
Had a few chats with him regards Pryce and all he did was slate him even prior to taking a session with him. He was the bloke responsible for mistreating Pryce not our new man.'"
Cheers for that.
How's the little fella? |
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| Quote: cadoo "Another article about him. All sounds very good.
rlhttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/scotland/2321059/Scotland-looking-finely-tuned.htmlrl'"
Best bit for me;
Quote: cadoo "Lardy forwards either shed their extra pounds or turned them into pure muscle, while the undernourished waifs of the backline put on more beef than passes through Smithfield Market on a busy day.'" |
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| Quote: thepriestman85 "Best bit for me;'"
Awesome! |
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