Steve Price coached Warrington win Challenge Cup

[Slippery Morris]

People supporting Price have short memories. They were dark days where the Saints were soft and could only score 2 tries a game if any. Mary gave them some mongrel at least when he took over but unfortunately it has gone down hill. Time to move on. There is no way Saints flog the Bronco's last year in the semi if Price was coach. They would have score 2 tries then try to defend the rest of the game. THat is how bad they were.

 

[nontime111]

Brownie

 

[Saint_JimmyG]

You guys have a short memory, i understand Mary is public enemy number 1 right now but that doesn’t mean there can’t be some perspective to the argument. Forums were all over Price when he was coach, and I even seen a few Hail Mary posts when he got appointed and strung some wins together to end the season. Besides this season Mary has been better than Price, Widdop has been out all year, JDB has been out all year. Frizell has been injured and in and out. Sims has been playing injured all year. You take Jake Turbo and DCE out of Manly and see how many games they win.. I’m in no way defending Mary but don’t all of a sudden think that chinless idiot is all of a sudden Bellamy.
My main issue with Mary is the rumblings of players wanting out, and that Inverview with Mary and Brett Morris when he left to go to the bulldogs will forever haunt me.

Brett was the first (of many) who wanted out because of McGregor.

 

[Coffs dragon]

End of the Day, Steve Price has 2 NRL premiership rings as an assistant coach, a ESL Challenge Cup plus the World Challenge in the UK when he coached the Dragons to victory in the UK whilst Bennett returned home for his Mothers funeral.
McDipshit has painted a gym and backstabbed & shafted just about every assistant staff member coming thru to keep his job because it's never his fault!!

 

[BLM01]

Gaz Widdop may have left it a year too late to go over there

 

[giboz71]

Sure, Price has ended up better than McGregor, but in reality, both their appointments were wrong.

If you look at recent history, the formula for a successful NRL coaching career includes serving an apprenticeship as an assistant coach for a number of years (preferably at a successful organisation like the Storm or Roosters), maybe a stint coaching Super League or overseas and then, and only then transitioning to an NRL gig.

Robinson, Maguire and Seibold all followed this path, Holbrook has done the same. Will be interesting to see if guys like O'Brien, Fitzgibbon and Ryles can skip the coaching overseas step and be successful. Learning your craft under Robinson and Bellamy may allow them a path straight to NRL.

Regardless, neither Price (and especially) McGregor had nothing close to those runs on the board and should never have been appointed.

 

[giboz71]

Oh, and Maguire and Seibold both have teaching degrees (Seibold has a Masters).

Would be nice if we expected these sorts of standards and pedigree when appointing our head coach.

 

[R&WTILLIDIE]

He certainly “pulled everyone’s pants down”

 

[Forbes Creek Dragons]

Brett was the first (of many) who wanted out because of McGregor.

Yeah and now when I hear the rumblings about Friz and Lomax etc, even if not true it makes you worried it’s going to happen again. Careers are short and the players deserve better than another year in purgatory.

 

[jeffdragon]

Brett Morris left after Mary had taken over from Price.

He wanted to play with his brother.

 

[BennyV]

He wanted to play with his brother.

Of course he did!
Hey, I’m selling a bridge in Brooklyn if you’re interested...

 

[jeffdragon]

Of course he did!
Hey, I’m selling a bridge in Brooklyn if you’re interested...

You can keep it

 

[matPORTS]

Slightly OT...

But with the word out on the street now that Mat Head is set to get the punt, one would hope that's a positive move on his behalf, in the sense that he is going onto a job elsewhere as an assistant first grade coach in the NRL or off to the Super League as a head coach to further serve his apprenticeship.

But no, it's more likely it's a negative move due to unrest on his behalf and to prevent any potential 'white anting' of McGregor.

The NSW Cup side had a few out over the weekend due to recent promotions into the top grade (including what one would consider to be a makeshift back line) and still managed to pile on the points.

 

[Dennis Papaioannou]

Sure, Price has ended up better than McGregor, but in reality, both their appointments were wrong.

If you look at recent history, the formula for a successful NRL coaching career includes serving an apprenticeship as an assistant coach for a number of years (preferably at a successful organisation like the Storm or Roosters), maybe a stint coaching Super League or overseas and then, and only then transitioning to an NRL gig.

Robinson, Maguire and Seibold all followed this path, Holbrook has done the same. Will be interesting to see if guys like O'Brien, Fitzgibbon and Ryles can skip the coaching overseas step and be successful. Learning your craft under Robinson and Bellamy may allow them a path straight to NRL.

Regardless, neither Price (and especially) McGregor had nothing close to those runs on the board and should never have been appointed.

the crux
well said

 

[Dennis Papaioannou]

Oh, and Maguire and Seibold both have teaching degrees (Seibold has a Masters).

Would be nice if we expected these sorts of standards and pedigree when appointing our head coach.

When you take an objective view of McGregor's CV and credentials to coach FG, you can probably excuse his appointment as caretaker coach because he was a club stalwart.
OK Illawarra club legend, rep player, "bleeds red and white" and so on.
Then maybe, just maybe, we can begrudgingly accept his first appointment as head coach.
But you can never understand, rationalize or accept his first and second extensions under any circumstances.
He has had NO apprenticeship.
NO mentor to speak of and it shows...every week.
Conclusion is that the board, apart from fostering an environment of nepotism and factional favouritism, are not particularly astute or intelligent.
The people making these decisions are not qualified to run a professional football club.
If they were, we wouldn't be in this mess and McGregor would not be the coach.
Simply put, it is no coincidence that the best performing clubs have the best management.
It is no coincidence that they hire and retain the very best coaches.
That is what then attracts the very best players and retains and develops the very best juniors.
If you want to win a premiership and play finals footy on a regular basis, you need to follow the examples of Melbourne, Easts and even Canberra and Brisbane.
We have the most famous brand in the history of the game.
Nothing but the best should be good enough.
If Gordon has crabs in his pockets and doesn't want to spend the money then he should divest and get out.
St. George is not a hobby for Gordons to dick around with.
We know for sure there are interested alternatives that would relish the challenge of making St. George great again.
Compromise should never be an option for this club.

 

[Dragsters]

Stop calling him Mary.

When Price was sacked we were in 11th. McGregor turned us around and we finished... 11th. Price had halves like Chase Stanley and Nathan Fien and we never ended up as low as 15th. McGregor has internationals in those positions. He is objectively worse than Price

This...

 

[Dragsters]

Stop calling him Mary.

When Price was sacked we were in 11th. McGregor turned us around and we finished... 11th. Price had halves like Chase Stanley and Nathan Fien and we never ended up as low as 15th. McGregor has internationals in those positions. He is objectively worse than Price

Double post.

But worth repeating.

This...

 

[JohnnoMcJohnno]

There have been a few posts here inferring that McGregor white-anted Steve Price to get his job. Is there any truth to this or is it just speculation? Irrespective of his faults as a coach (and there are many), I have never seen it as anything other than a bad Board decision to appoint him.

Genuinely curious.

 

[BennyV]

When you take an objective view of McGregor's CV and credentials to coach FG, you can probably excuse his appointment as caretaker coach because he was a club stalwart.
OK Illawarra club legend, rep player, "bleeds red and white" and so on.
Then maybe, just maybe, we can begrudgingly accept his first appointment as head coach.
But you can never understand, rationalize or accept his first and second extensions under any circumstances.
He has had NO apprenticeship.
NO mentor to speak of and it shows...every week.
Conclusion is that the board, apart from fostering an environment of nepotism and factional favouritism, are not particularly astute or intelligent.
The people making these decisions are not qualified to run a professional football club.
If they were, we wouldn't be in this mess and McGregor would not be the coach.
Simply put, it is no coincidence that the best performing clubs have the best management.
It is no coincidence that they hire and retain the very best coaches.
That is what then attracts the very best players and retains and develops the very best juniors.
If you want to win a premiership and play finals footy on a regular basis, you need to follow the examples of Melbourne, Easts and even Canberra and Brisbane.
We have the most famous brand in the history of the game.
Nothing but the best should be good enough.
If Gordon has crabs in his pockets and doesn't want to spend the money then he should divest and get out.
St. George is not a hobby for Gordons to dick around with.
We know for sure there are interested alternatives that would relish the challenge of making St. George great again.
Compromise should never be an option for this club.

I disagree with the notion that there was any logical reason for him to go any further than interim coach in 2014. To extend him beyond that, let alone for 3 years straight up, was a huge show of incompetence or corruption from our management. I’m inclined to believe the latter.

 

[BennyV]

There have been a few posts here inferring that McGregor white-anted Steve Price to get his job. Is there any truth to this or is it just speculation? Irrespective of his faults as a coach (and there are many), I have never seen it as anything other than a bad Board decision to appoint him.

Genuinely curious.

Was mentioned several times when it happened that Price felt McGregor was undermining him, and while it was a board decision, Paul’s close relationship with several board members is the only reason he got there.