Re: Price. : Mon Feb 17, 2020 2:25 pm
sally cinnamon wrote:
Are you really saying that Barrow was having to make the most of limited talent and comparing that team to a 'pre-money' City, whereas the current team is like City now
What would have the 1986 pack done to the 2019 pack?
Was Patton better than Andy Gregory? Does Price have more talent in the backline than Brian Johnson, Phil Blake etc?
Those guys in 1986 might have been on meagre pay packets compared to what players earn today but we had genuine world class talent back then, which we don't now.
Price had to come up against a dominant Saints team with an elite coach in Justin Holbrook, and yet we beat them at Wembley on the big occasion, just like we'd gone to their ground and knocked them out of the playoffs the year before.
What would have the 1986 pack done to the 2019 pack?
Was Patton better than Andy Gregory? Does Price have more talent in the backline than Brian Johnson, Phil Blake etc?
Those guys in 1986 might have been on meagre pay packets compared to what players earn today but we had genuine world class talent back then, which we don't now.
Price had to come up against a dominant Saints team with an elite coach in Justin Holbrook, and yet we beat them at Wembley on the big occasion, just like we'd gone to their ground and knocked them out of the playoffs the year before.
Tony Barrow
1986-88 P97 W63 D2 L32 64.9%
Tony Barrow achieved a lot with the lesser players too. Don't forget we were not full time professional then. That side that beat champions Halifax included world class talent such as Mark Forster, Paul Cullen in the centre, Brian Carbert, Paul Ford, Gary Sanderson and Billy McGinty. With a star studded squad of Barry Peters, Carl Webb, Tony Gittins. Brian Johnson was substitute for the final and Phil Blake was not even playing.
It's wrong to think we had a star studded side then compared to now.
Also, those watching then will remember what we were like under Reg Bowden at the start of the 1985/86 season before Tony Barrow replaced him.
Reg Bowden
1984–85 Warrington P68 W28 D0 L40 41%