Re: First 6 Games : Mon Jan 15, 2018 10:13 am  

I want the culture at the club to be a "we can win every game attitude". I think that will be the attitude of Steve Price and his coaching staff. I want the fans and people of Warrington to believe that to. I want the players to believe they can jump tall building and run through brick walls. I want the players to put in 100% every game and leave everything on the park at the end of 80 mins. If we can put all this together maybe, just maybe we can have a successful season.

I am tired of hearing that "we trained great this week, but we were a bit flat tonight" or "we were just off today ". If we lose and I dare say at some time we will, I want to hear we gave everything but today it just wasn't enough.

Firstly I want my team to win and then i would like to be entertained while my team is winning. I want to see my team playing in front of packed houses, where no one wants to leave after an hour. I want to see the Wigan walk and all other visiting supporters leaving early because they have just witnessed their team getting a tonking. I want to hear the talk in the pub before and after the game how great Tyronne Roberts is playing or Big Ben smashed his way to a brace of tries. I want to see the boys at Wembley and Old Trafford and I want to see 2 trophys and a hub cap being paraded around the town on a damp Sunday in October.

That's what I want!! I drive a 220 mile round trip every home game, I have followed this team since 1973 when i was a nipper and I have listened on the World Service to the finals when I was away in some God Forsaken Desert and I deserve it!!

Re: First 6 Games : Mon Jan 15, 2018 11:59 am  

Great post.

kirtonLindseyWolf wrote:

I am tired of hearing that "we trained great this week, but we were a bit flat tonight" or "we were just off today ".

Yes this has to come to end. I believe it will as Price craves success as much as we do.

Re: First 6 Games : Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:17 pm  

All I want to see is honesty balanced somewhere between the professionalism of TS and the passion if Wane might not be far off the mark.

Re: First 6 Games : Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:20 pm  

kirtonLindseyWolf wrote:

I am with the Duck on this one. With our recruitment I would be very underwhelmed if we were anything less than 5/6. The Litmus test will be those first 3 games at home. 3 wins and we can look forward to a good season. I am sure Steve Price will try and put in place a Fortress Halliwell Jones I don't see any improvement in the Leeds, Pie and Saints teams.

Let's not get overboard. We are still fairly weak in the outside backs.

Ratch is a cracking player with ball in hand towards the opposition try line but lacks speed off the line and isn't a particularly great defender (not a bad one though). Atkins is a great runner of the ball and decent in defence but can't really create space nor give a good pass often enough for the winger. Don't know much about Goodwin of recent years. and our wingers could arguably be replaced by 3/4 of the other clubs wingers in SL.

Plus all the new players need time to settle, as does the coach and his philosophy. He also needs a year to see what he really needs or lacks in the squad. I think we'll see as many new faces next Winter as we have this.

This is very much a transition year and we should be patient with the team and the coach.

Re: First 6 Games : Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:38 pm  

kirtonLindseyWolf wrote:

I want the culture at the club to be a "we can win every game attitude". I think that will be the attitude of Steve Price and his coaching staff. I want the fans and people of Warrington to believe that to. I want the players to believe they can jump tall building and run through brick walls. I want the players to put in 100% every game and leave everything on the park at the end of 80 mins. If we can put all this together maybe, just maybe we can have a successful season.

I absolutely agree with this though. This is the culture i want Price to eventually build at the club too.

Losing isn't good enough mentality. We WILL win mentality. But in Year 1 i'm not going to expect too much.

Re: First 6 Games : Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:55 pm  

Psychedelic Casual wrote:

Let's not get overboard. We are still fairly weak in the outside backs.

Ratch

Lineham
Goodwin
Atkins
Russell

Brown
Roberts

The only weak links I see there Is Russell. People can dress it up however they want but he is in no way good enough for a team wanting to win silverware. Hopefully it's spotted early on by Price and Taylor Prell comes in and shows us what we've been missing.

Re: First 6 Games : Mon Jan 15, 2018 2:57 pm  

Transition my backside.
They're mature pros on good money.
Turn up for work and not do your job...see how long you last.

Re: First 6 Games : Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:04 pm  

moving on... wrote:

Ratch

Lineham
Goodwin
Atkins
Russell

Brown
Roberts

The only weak links I see there Is Russell. People can dress it up however they want but he is in no way good enough for a team wanting to win silverware. Hopefully it's spotted early on by Price and Taylor Prell comes in and shows us what we've been missing.

This.

I'll add to it, the squad is strong and Russell will be a top scorer I believe.

Re: First 6 Games : Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:55 pm  

rubber duckie wrote:

This.

I'll add to it, the squad is strong and Russell will be a top scorer I believe.

Pull the other one. Lineham scored 19 on his jack jones. Russell had ample service and space last season and he still managed to score 10 and only 3 of those came against a team in the top 8 of SL. The lad couldn't finish a Sunday dinner. In fact, the tries he actually scored he made harder than they were by cutting back inside and running into a tackle he is attrotious

Re: First 6 Games : Mon Jan 15, 2018 4:29 pm  

moving on... wrote:

Pull the other one. Lineham scored 19 on his jack jones. Russell had ample service and space last season and he still managed to score 10 and only 3 of those came against a team in the top 8 of SL. The lad couldn't finish a Sunday dinner. In fact, the tries he actually scored he made harder than they were by cutting back inside and running into a tackle he is attrotious

I don't doubt your reasoning or caution about Russell. I'm far from his biggest fan.
My theorys based entirely upon the enhanced quality of squad supporting him...
Not the mention he was doing nicely for Scotland and outside of Peta in 2017.