www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 66,00.html Brad Fittler may be a dead man walking at Bondi with speculation mounting the embattled Sydney Roosters coach will be sacked in favour of Stephen Kearney

www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,865 ... 66,00.html Brad Fittler may be a dead man walking at Bondi with speculation mounting the embattled Sydney Roosters coach will be sacked in favour of Stephen Kearney

Read he'd said no as he wanted to keep his job with NZ, but I think you could be on to something with that Roosters thing.

I'm willing to let Noble leave to take the roosters job

He has been linked with this job for a while now, he will be a first team NRL coach by the start of next season at the latest.

TBH I've got a feeling that that's whats going to happen. He can't stay now that its been made public that IL was touting SK as a replacement - it's seriously undermined his position. Having said that, maybe BN already knew he was leaving? Maybe "signings" are being made with the next coach in mind?

Sod it. Lets take back Millward

cefax rumour, he has turned wigan down.

confirmed turned us down.

Looking good for Justin

Disappointed he said no, but the silver lining is that it shows Lenaghan wants Noble out.

Doesn't really show anything - how do we know Noble hasn't told IL he wishes to leave?



He won't be the next head coach. That I guarantee you.

Think positive

Either way I'm happy.

We are sitting ducks for the rest of the season now.

We have a coach who obviously doesn't look like he will be here next season, and whether he knew it or not everyone knows it now.

We have a group of players who look less than committed at the best of times so knowing that their current coach probably has no long term influence is not likely to improve this.

And our chairman does not fill me full of confidence as regards his transfer policy given sum of the cheapskates he has signed so far.

On the positive side our season starts in a couple ogf months.

I really don't get fans having a pop at this. We were on a budget thanks to the previous decision makers. we could have gone all out and bought one superstar but instead we tried to balance the limited funds around the squad. We made some mistakes and we'll learn from them.
Noble is going and maybe two or three of the water treaders will follow.

Awful managment to allow this to be leaked.

The challenge Cup is our only hope of success this season. Hopefully Noble and the players will go all out and put some effort in, in a vain attempt to attract suitors.

Finally made it to the BBC (bearing in mind this happened well over 3 weeks ago). I also posted this on Page 64 of the Rumours / Signings thread. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 111852.stm

Finally made it to the BBC (bearing in mind this happened well over 3 weeks ago). I also posted this on Page 64 of the Rumours / Signings thread. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 111852.stm

Shocking.


Tbh I have seen NOTHING from the new "Wigan Management" that fills me with any hope whatsoever. It's one embarassing foul up after another.

One can only imagine the garbage being spewed on here if Uncle Mo had made such a faux pas.

I agree.

Lenagan has performed poorly thus far as chairman of the club.

To be honest, Mo's faux pas was somewhat more serious - it involved breaching the salary cap to such an extent that we almost got penalised into relegation.

Short of gagging people in both hemispheres of the world, I'm not really sure how we expect the club to prevent it getting out that they're in the market for a new coach.

Some absolute pish being posted on here. Wiganers are really going for that leyther crown of Britain's most miserable moaners.

Exactly if were after a coach and he declines the position and makes it public what can we do, I'm not that bothered this has got out, it would of course been better if it hadn't but I'm more ed about selling the mascot positions.

The same thing struck me. The NZ RL wanted to end any rumours surrounding their national coach so they made the story public. Also, his agent wants to make it clear he's available to coach in the NRL. There's no contract in place so I'm not sure how the club can stop them talking.

I'd doubt the story was leaked by Wigan, as others above have said.

We need a new coach so we need to speak to people. If the news is leaked at their end, there's not a great deal we can do about it.

Sorry so what actually has IL done wrong here?

He’s got a majorly underperforming coach who couldn’t keep order in an under 10’s RL side rather than Wigan RL.

So he’s gone to get one of the major up and coming coaching talents in the world and he’s been slated for it?

Add to that it’s not him but the NZRL who have released that Wigan have gone for Kearney but yet IL is getting a kicking from the fans for it??

The NZRL are just trying to save some face after losing their past two head coaches to SL and are happy to tell the world that he’s turned down the famous Wigan RL for them. It’s a complete PR spin exercise for them.

So what is IL supposed to do in the future? Does he not got for a world class coach again just so he doesn’t get knocked back and get slatted by the fans.

Get a grip FFS he’s trying to bring in some serious talent to Wigan which is what everyone has been calling for.