All those calling for Price to be sacked throughout last year need Price to be a failure now to save face. They will death ride him to the end and jump at every chance, every slip up, every failure or perceived failure no matter how slight to lay the boot in.
They have placed themselves in the difficult position of actually wanting Saints to fail to prove themselves to be right. They will call for all or any actions to be rid of him. They will make erroneous connections, construct phantom Board meetings, create fantastical scenarios and hypotheses.
Better to have waited and see how he went part way through this year before calling for change.
A lot of the forum members get carried away with a few wins or losses, completely changing their perspective, this was very evident with Price & Soward/Fien until a month ago, who were flamed 1 week with devotion-threads the week after.
For me personally, the way Price managed the team early 2012 showed me that he didnt have what it took to put the right players in the right positions, Vidot on the left & Stanley at Fullback basically cost us any chance of the season. Fast forward to Early 2013 and it was the same thing, no new tactics, no taking chance on new players, was Stanley developing at #7 for the Cutters? Nope.. and when Price speaks to the media *barf cliche rubbish* not 1 sign he had any idea what he was doing.. he had to go.
The last 3 weeks, forget the wins, but the new outlook on attack, Soward playing whats in front of him, players backing up Merrin, and finally just a hint of young players being given a little first grade time, its not rocket science, its what I and others have asked for for a long time.
If this is "the real price" coming out, then its fine for us to give him longer to see if he can come out of his shell as a coach... but so far a couple of weeks in my mind does not remotely undo the terrible football, tactics, recruitment & selections that we put up with through 2012, not 1 positive or innovative thing from his coaching comes to mind.. he seems to be a literal sloth in responding to whats happening on the field, I expect much better than that from a 1st grade coach.