Warrington Wolves • Re: Cooper to Wigan confirmed

Obviously we can only speculate. We won the League Leaders' Shield and reached 2 finals in 2016 under TS, and then reached 2 finals again in 2018 with Price. If we'd gone on to be consistently successful under Price I'd be more inclined to believe that he was responsible for the transformation from 2017 but having seen the full Price era I'm more inclined to see 2017 as an outlier year where we underperformed and would have likely had a bounceback even under TS in 2018. We did get badly disrupted by the no show from our our key playmaker Sandow just before the 2017 season.

Overall I don't think Price was as good a coach as TS, but its possible the improvement in 2018 was simply due to having a change of face. There was an "end of days" feeling to the TS era almost from the start of the 2017 season, despite having a good year the year before. I felt the same at the start of 2008 with Cullen, and at the start of the Centenary season with Brian Johnson, after Davies and Bateman had left. Almost like everybody knows a change is coming and is just marking time until it happens. I think TS sensed that too.

Statistics: Posted by sally cinnamon — Sun Jun 19, 2022 6:43 pm

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