Warrington Coaches Over The Last 40 Years : Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:22 pm  

Of all the coaches that we have had since the early 70's, where do you rate Jimmy Lowes?

1971 - Alex Murphy
1978 - Billy Benyon
1982 - Kevin Ashcroft
1984 - Reg Bowden
1986 - Tony Barrow
1988 - Brian Johnson
1996 - John Dorahy
1997 - Darryl van de Velde
2001 - Steve Anderson
2002 - David Plange
2003 - Paul Cullen
2008 - Jimmy Lowes


1 - Alex Murphy
2 - Brian Johnson
3 - Billy Benyon
4 - Tony Barrow
5 - Kevin Ashcroft
6 - Paul Cullen
7 - Darryl van de Velde
8 - John Dorahy/ (Murphy)
9 - Reg Bowden
10 - David Plange
11 -Steve Anderson
12 -Jimmy Lowes

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:24 pm  

Really??

Worse than anderson already??

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:33 pm  

And how we moaned about Johnsons 1 man rugby

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:35 pm  

Johnson above Benyon and Barrow???... ....

Sorry, not a chance.

Personally, always felt Barrow got a particularly poor treatment, getting dismissed after a poor few MONTHS, compared with Johnson, who, whilst he did an ok job, outlived his welcome by a year or so.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:38 pm  

The Angry Pirate wrote:

Johnson above Benyon and Barrow???... ....

Sorry, not a chance.

Personally, always felt Barrow got a particularly poor treatment, getting dismissed after a poor few MONTHS, compared with Johnson, who, whilst he did an ok job, outlived his welcome by a year or so.

The only positiver for BJ was the Wembley final (and Lancs cup, regal trophy)

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:46 pm  

El Camerero wrote:

The only positiver for BJ was the Wembley final (and Lancs cup, regal trophy)

Which is more than we've had since. You've also got to factor in how financially unstable the club was towards the end of Johnson's reign, with the subcequent player unrest being a big factor in his departure.

This sorry lot don't realise how good they've got it.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:48 pm  

Brian Johnson & Billy Benyon were the only 2 coaches to come anywhere near winning the league.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:07 pm  

Barrow should be at number 2. In his era wigan were the only full time team with everybody else part time. We were consistently challenging them in finals for lancashire cups, prienierships, john player etc and when they won romped to a league title only losing 2 games it was us who beat them home and away. Wigan apart, we were the best team in the league under barrow.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:37 pm  

Wigan were very dominant during the later parts of the 80's but it took a Warrington player to link their team together. That player was Andy Gregory.
Other players left to go to Wigan : Case - Potter - McGinty. But it was Gregory that was missed the most.
We were left with Paul Bishop. I think if we had kept hold of Gregory we would have won alot more trophies under Johnson.

: Sat Feb 28, 2009 8:48 pm  

El Camerero wrote:

And how we moaned about Johnsons 1 man rugby

Johnno struggled in his last season but knew what was going on behind the scenes and fell on his sword. He instructed the players to play one out in our own half, but do what you like in the oppositions. Our defence under Johnno was outstanding in the couple of seasons we had Jiffy and just relied upon him to pull the creative bit out of the bag.

Never forget that game against Sheffield at home in the last game of the season. Wire top of the league.