Dear me!

Steady on, you'll have Mystic Eddie going apoplectic coming out with stuff like that.

He'll have that wall back up before you can utter "ya wee timmering beastie!" . . . . .

See. There's a positive side to everything

Right before I start, I am not confirming the validity of this, but the story I was told last night (from someone who knows a player down at Wigan) goes like this:

- Tuesday training cancelled at Wigan
- Noble went to London for a meeting with the Cheif Exec. (his name escapes me)
- Wigan offered Noble back to Bradford.
- Bradford refused
- Training as normal at Wigan yesterday.
- The feeling of the players at Wigan is that he will get the chop sooner rather than later.

For free?

Can we have Noble plus some players?

For free.

Yup

But we'd still have to pay him if we wanted him to do a job for us obviously.

Despite the views of some on here I'd welcome him back. He's an experienced coach with knowledge of the club and has proved he can turn around an underperforming side as he did at Wigan in 2006. What I don't know are the true circumstances of his departure from Odsal so I can't say whether his return would cause any ructions.

Adrian Lam is who i've heard is getting the job.

I reckon he could do a job for us at the right price. Not offering much going forward but he does a lot of defense for Wigan and that is what we need!

If you don't think he should be in SL then what do you think about our team? He is the cornerstone of the pack of a team that thrashed us and is higher in the table. Bring him home and he'll be happy in his old haunts. Good bit of business if we get him on a free

It seems to me that there is lots of talk about Fielden. Whether personally you want him or you don't In my opinion you'd be better spending your money on backs not forwards. You have a pretty solid set of forwards already, money spent on forwards (for me) is money that could have been better spent.

Yes, with Wane

Yes, obviously his salary would have to be paid by Bradford.

I've no doubt he could offer something short term. My concern is longer term. As I stated elsewhere, we've not really had anything "fresh or new" coming in to the club from a coaching point of view for a number of seasons.

As you point out Sam, the circumstances of his depature are the main cause of concern.

Stevo as just been on about Noble coming back to Bradford on Sky Sports News, he says he thinks its unlikely but the rumours are strong.

That reason is no longer at the club.

CC?

I'd guess that too
Has that ever being made public though? Or was is just rumour mongering?

No GD.

Go on then, GD?

Gold digging?

He means Gareth Davies, who copped for a lot of the flak at the time.

Gareth Davies.

And from what I've heard rightly so.

Didn't he deliver that big deal with Grattan though? Wasn't all bad was it?

Wasn't Davies mixed up with Iestyn somehow?

Former commercial director at Reebok who supposedly the man who signed him up for Reebok And tempted him to WRU.

Was he mixed up in the deal that got him to Bradford?

Anyway back on topic I'd probably welcome Noble back if only for a bit of experience in the coaching dept.

Never offically but he was meant to have used his ties at Cardiff to get them to release Iestyn early.