It was foolish to give price an extension after reaching 2 finals in the first year. We should have won the CC in 2018 anyway.
I do have a bit of sympathy for him though - I will explain. I am not too sure that Burrell was signed on the recommendation of Price, I just can't see an NRL coach signing a RU player like this. And in my opinion this is where it all started to go wrong. I know that there were a lot of players angry about the signing of a 30 odd year old Hicks to replace Fa"afili and we have replaced Atkins with Burrell and then Goodwin decides he is going back to South's.
Some of the senior players were here for the demise of Tony Smith and it appears that they will be here when Price leaves, I think they have a part to play in this. When you look at the results and performances before and after the CC final it looks as though those players won the CC despite price rather than because of him and all the high fives and hugs after the game were window dressing.
I am not a big fan of price and I do think he needs to go as I can't see this turning round in the off season. From an outsider it appears that when the players wanted to play the Price way they could (cc final and semi) but when they didn't want to they threw their toys out of the pram and that is more disappointing than a coach that is jut not very good.
The Wembley win was great but other than that 80 mins this season has been a disaster. The club will give it a few weeks before they trott out Widdop to push ST sales but it will take more than that to convince me that we will turn it around.