Wires71 wrote:
To counter ...
1. Liverpool and City managed to win and entertain last season.
2. Price could hardly be considered to be under high pressure.
Yes it is possible to do it, but only a few sports teams do it because they need a) elite coaches and b) enough elite players with the ability to play entertaining styles and execute complex/risky plays at speed, to be able to do it. When you have that, you have the best of both worlds because play that stretches the field is hard for opponents to negate, hence City and Liverpool win almost every week against inferior opposition.
In rugby league, with the salary cap and general scarcity of talent both in coaching and talent on the field, it's much harder to get a SL team doing it. Warrington haven't ever been a super high entertainment team like Saints under Millward, but we had a go at playing fairly open rugby in the Cullen era and then the same in the early Smith era (peak entertainment in the time we had Solomona).
There aren't the players with the ability to execute that style of rugby now, which is why no team really plays like that.
In the context of this scarcity we probably should credit Daryl Powell and Cas who in their best form in 2017 were pretty exciting to watch, with a side that lacked big guns.
