Price is better than Mary now.
Mary is worse now that Price ever was.
Comparing the playing roster that Price had and conditions under which Price had to work to that of Mary is like comparing accomodation in a minimum security prison to a 4 star hotel. Price had to deal with the likes of an aging Fien, Hornby and Stanley in the halves. He had to put his stamp on a team coming off the best coach in JV history and attempt to revitalise a stale structure in players who’ve only known one way to succeed. He has Craig Young pulling the recruitment and retention strings, resulting in the likes of Dan Hunt, Cam King and Mitch Rein rounding out our list of marquee players. And he had to deal with white anting by his main assistant and lack of support from management.
By comparison, Mary had the red carpet rolled out, burned through several assistant coaches, high performance coaches and recruitment managers, had excuses made for him by management, players and media and has still managed to lead us to many of our negative records, including biggest losses at Kogarah, worst losing streaks, biggest slide in history, and so on.
Price was a horrible coach for us. He clearly wasn’t up for it at the time and I was glad when he was sacked.
Mary is another level of bad, and should never have been appointed in the first place. He is causing damage to this club that will set us back 5 years, and it gets worse every week that he remains employed.
