You'd hope IF we have the choice of price and brennan we'd pick brennan. Id be very happy with Brennan.

Price 2-1? Great odds considering it’s an already ‘done deal’.

Price and Agar. The dynamic duo.

Extra training?

The way things are going with all the Aussie coaches rejecting us, Agar at 50-1 might be worth a tenner. We might just be that desperate for an interim solution!

Incidentally, whatever happened to Jason Demetriou? Was he not even considered or did he refuse an interview?

He is in the betting at 10/1

He's one of the favourites for the last NRL job.

On another note. What is Maguire going to do with himself with no job?

Wigan...

Yup. Almost certainly.

I don't know enough about the NRL - why is everyone against Price being the coach? What is his background?

Thanks

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Price_(coach)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Price_(coach)

Maguire to Wigan Wane to Wire

Maybe we are waiting for Leigh's season to end before announcing Keiron Cunningham?

The last couple of coaching changes felt like there was a plan. Plange goes, Cullen swiftly appointed. Then Lowes always felt like an interim arrangement after Cullen and once Smith's England contract finished we moved quickly to get him.

This time feels more like when DVDV left. Remember that merry saga!

Frank Endacott was the big name linked - his stock at the time was quite high, having been coach of the year the previous year with Wigan and he had done quite well with NZ. Or it was going to be the upcoming high fliers from the lower division, Mike Ford or Neil Kelly, with Gary Mercer and Billy McGinty's names being bandied around too.

The club teased us by telling us they were going to make an announcement and it "would be fair to say it would be someone the supporters would be happy with"....we all waited excitedly. It was Neil Kelly. Hmm, jury's out, but in fairness he had won the NFP grand final with Dewsbury the year before and was on his way to repeating the feat with Widnes, so at least it looked promising.

Then wasn't there something like the club wanted to bring Kelly straight over to assist DVDV for the rest of the season, and DVDV wasn't happy, so he left and Allan Langer suddenly discovered he had a career ending injury that fortunately healed by next season when he signed for Brisbane again. Mercer, who was playing for us at the time and had been one of our better players that season, also soon disappeared after he didn't get the coaching job and signed for Leeds. And then Kelly did a U-turn and said he was going to stay with Widnes.

We were then coachless and had lost a couple of our best players. Suddenly the media latched on to Shaun Edwards who became the new favourite and there was heated debate on the Wire forum at the time about whether we would benefit from "a pure winner" or whether his Wigan connections were too much to handle. Then a few days after that we heard Edwards wasn't going to relocate up north or whatever reason, and there was still no coach...until finally we got the announcement that it was David Plange with Steve Anderson as 'Performance Director'. That turned out well!

We've either been incredibly unlucky or incredibly stupid or both. Sounds like Maguire was sounded out ages ago but was never nailed down.

Then with Pay it would appear that The Dogs acted immediately to get rid of Hasler once there was a potential we could snare him.

But what's plan C if the others were plan A and B?
Sounds like we've just gone after the first aussie accent to declare an interest.

It's easy to sit back and criticise though isn't it? We aimed high and went for Madge, should we have done different? He's said no. We went for the next best recognised coach on the block, Pay. I think you're right, I think the dogs acted when they saw how serious we were to bring him over.

I think you could agree, we can't compete for Pay with the Dogs.

So where next? Maybe Brennan wants an NRL gig, maybe Henry is keen to hang up his boots, Hasler has a court case to fight. We (and by we I mean SL) aren't the draw we want to be.

We need huge changes in our sport, I'm hoping they've started happening but we need to push our comp forward to catch up to the NRL.

From the Mole 50 mins ags..... its almost out there now peeps, so my pact of secrecy is over Steve Price to Wire ALMOST done deal. Almost done he says hmmmr

Ps. If you want to belive that and your awake at daft oclock like me, betting is still up and still 2/1

Happy Friday everyone.

We went to Australia looking for José Mourinho and came back with Steve McClaren.......

Hardly surprising though, Standard of SuperLeague is second rate, so when a novice CEO goes to Aus why be shocked when he comes back with a second rate coach and probably some 3rd rate players

The thing that's grinding me, and I know we don't know the why's and what fors, but we've gone with a proven failure as a head coach.

I'm so disappointed we never went for Brennan and missed out on Pay. I know neither have top grade experience but they're standing in the game is highly regarded and both are touted as future NRL coaches (one now is).

It could be that Brennan turned us down and price is the only interested party. Sad if true.

If Maguire turns up at Wigan in a few weeks I'll be fuming.

Maybe it's the other Steve Price. He's not a great coach either but he's an enforcer and might give some of our players the kick up the Jacksie they need

It's common knowledge that Brennan wouldn't move his family overseas.

Can we at least give Price a chance? He wants to be here, none of the others did. He's won 2 grand finals as an assistant, Wayne Bennett's hold him in very high regard. Yes he failed as a number one, but lets hope he's learnt from that. From what I've read of him he's seems hard work and wary of the media but players always speak very highly of him.

And the betting as gone again,hope some got a bet on from what I said in earlier post. On another note as others have said this is really dragging on far to long. How long did Noah take to build the Ark.

@johnnydavidson - Reliable League Express journo just tweeted:

"The plot thickens connected Aussie source says Steve Price 'in the mix but by no means a good thing' to get Warrington job. Hmm"