Or thane:


We won a hell of a lot more games in 2005, we had better players who put in shed loads more effort, and 10 times more backbone with pride in the club and just got on with it all. We're currently NOTHING like we were in 2005.........unfortunately.

ratticusfinch:



As I've stated if the numbers I've heard are true then I really don't blame Vaughan for signing and I don't blame our board for matching their silly numbers. He'll be a big loss.

Wires71:



You don't give Powell much credit, some points in reply. 


1. Success is indeed relative, so are consequences. Powell was sacked with his Warrington side higher placed in the league than we find ourselves currently and with 3 more wins than we currently have!


2. Price was here for the duration of his 4 year contract, ergo not chopped. Arguably he should have been chopped earlier though. 2 home playoff defeats should have been enough. 

3. Our expectations are so dulled now that squeaking into the playoffs in 6th is the stretch target currently. Hard to argue we have high expectations. 


4. The cap does not stop the wealthy teams spending £350K+ each on 3 x marquee players, our hundreds of £K on facilities that the poorer sides just cannot afford. It's not a level playing field by any means. 


5. Powell is a far more experienced and accomplished coach than Burgess. He won a LLS and made a GF with an unfashionable, financially poor club. Both superior coaching achievements than 2 x CCF runner up. 


6. Powell was criticised for his recruitment of past players but nothing as poor as compared to the recruitment that Sam has overseen for 2025. 

Whatever went wrong at Warrington for Powell, is happening again this season under a different coach. 

BarbedWire2:

It’s not an anomaly to miss the play offs for a Powell team though. It’s an anomaly for a post-Smith Warrington team to miss play offs though. Smith got sacked, Powell got another chance, and failed again. With his own team. 


Now people will be anti-Burgess and anti-Powell and that’s fine. But his time here was an abject failure. Kicked out all the “bad apples” and still failed to deliver. 


This year leaves a lot to be desired, but last year and this years cup run is far superior than any single performance under Powell, who never beat a big team with us, let alone got us into conversations about winning anything. 


Sam might not be the answer, but of the past failures, Smith and Price both did so much more without ever going through the complete collapse of 2022. Unmitigated disaster, with only Thewlis to point to as a player that improved under Powell.