After his first jittery 5 mins Pryce went ok.
He came in a couple of times to take the ball up.
His interception knock down and knock on saved a certain Hudds try.
He scored himself. Wingers are there to finish moves and score, he did that!
Nothing spectacular but being his first game after so long out playing in the reserves he will be well short of the pace needed to play a full part in 80 mins of a SL match.
He should be started again as we obviously have to now build up squads of British players following IL's comments a few days ago.
I was an Ainscough fan but last week he had a nightmare.
Perhaps Pryce is ahead of Ainscough now and alongside Marsh etc in the pecking order.
After the Hudds game Pryce deserves another first team place.
Phelps looks vulnerable and if Pat is fb until Amos returns then Pryce should be kept at 5.
If Amos is to be our fb then Phelps is vulnerable and we would be looking for a wingman to replace Amos and a centre to replace Carmont eventually. With Goulding, Pryce and Marsh around there is competition for those places from players we have in the squad now.
Keeping Pryce seems a far better proposition that it did prior to the Hudds game.
If he can be that ok after months out he could up his performance no end with some consistent appearances in the first team.
It might be worth at Widnes running with Pat, Goulding, Gleeson, Carmont and Pryce as our backs to get them used to playing together.

And exactly the same Karl didn't really do anything wrong last night

that's my point.

absolutely not. thats why i take into account all outings for wigan.

And why I take into account the circumstances of the outings to

Yeah but if there's nothing to choose between them, surely it's fair to say that Ainscough is the better winger, as he has been based on past performances.

Past performances based on SL outings in a Wigan shirt, or past performances in total outings (pre wigan) and reserves?

If the latter it's not as clear cut imo, and even if the former in the Madge regime Shaun really does need to do more defensively - whether you like or agree with it or not

Didn't do too bad IMO, I would put him in against Wignes.

Agreed i'd put him in against Widnes, and i'd also give pat a 1 game rest he looks like he could use it. Gleeson i'd play if it's felt he needs match time after missing the past couple with Marsh on the bench, or I'd give Marsh another start to gain more experience.

Whats up with Phelps?

Dropped.

I think the imporant thing to notice here is that he wasn't picked because he would light up the field and score more than Ainscough or another young winger he was in the side because we needed to defend against Hudds to win. He is an imposing man and a solid defender he did his job and probably stopped a couple tries being scored he earned another game give him his chance. Noone is saying he's special but at least he was solid and he even got on the scoresheet so give him his dues and stop making him another scapegoat just remember we won. If he was that bad surely they'd of got tries in on his side but i'm pretty sure they were both scored no where near him.

A very solid game, against one of the top 4 teams in the league. a team who could easily do the league and cup double this season. if he could play like that against all the best teams (wire, saints, hudds and leeds) then i cant see those teams making meters and scoring trys down his wing.

if he can improve his game against the smaller clubs he will score lots of trys. but atleast think about the game in context. a player playing his first game of the season against a very creative side, who are great in defence. and yet they did nothing down his wing and he made yards.

people want to have a go at him because its pryce, if you changed his name and he played exactly the same, the same people would be saying how well he helped contain hudds.

Spot on. They just want him to do badly for no real reason.

I was nervous everytime he had the ball didn't impress me one bit not up to par

He pulled up with cramp wtf was that all about just shows his fitness aint there one bit

Possibly the most stupid statement i've ever read on here.

Care to explain?

What do you not agree with?

He pulled up when he did sweet fa

You can pull up with cramp at any time, doesn't have anything to do with fitness.

Liam Farrell pulled up with cramp last week against Quins, does that make him unfit?

Your assumption that because he had cramp, he isnt fit. Because no other player has ever got cramp?

Maguire seems to be impressed with his application and effort as of late. Ill take that over a few fans with an axe to grind.

No axe to grind at all

FACT he's been with us 2 1/2 years and played what 4-5 games?

He's taking room up on the cap and is not good enough we can you that money for other areas

Why don't you just boo him then? That seems the best response many can muster in regards to Pryce.

Some of the comments on here are foolish and pathetic to say the least.

I realise Pryce doing a solid job yesterday makes many on here look seriously foolish as they have waged a hate campaign against the guy but sadly for many he wasn’t the great failure many told us he would be.

Maybe it’s time people actually watched the game and not watch it with a not so hidden agenda.

I ask again apart from one mistake in the 2nd half what actually did he do wrong?

Did he mess up his one chance?-No
Did he let anyone past him in defence?-No
Was he willing to take the first drive up on our own line?-Yes

This thread should be locked as there is a little point to it. No matter what the guy does the fools on here won’t give him credit and will try to belittle any good things that he does do. All this thread is doing is giving the tools a chance to bag the guy for no reason

Farrell was everywhere last week big diffrence

His salary hardly makes a difference. He has been injured for much of that time, his first year can be written off, as it was by IL himself.

Regardless of what went before. What did Pryce do wrong YESTERDAY in his first outing under Madge?

So that proves that you can get cramp at any time then, nothing to do with Pryce being unfit which is what you previously said



FWIW, Pryce didn't do anything spectacular. He took his try well and he also helped out from the back, I actually feel sorry for him because no matter what he does he'll always be a scapegoat.

Fact is not many on here like hearing the truth if a player is not good enough it should be brought up

His first touch of the ball he fumbled it he got chopped off brough behind the line the guy if he wanted could run over him for fun

Tools lol what is a forum for? it's so people can talk about the club and games if you dont like it dont read it simple

Marsh did a hell of alot more than him and pryce will be on alot more cash i'd sooner give that lad a payrise and bin pryce off