But it is the only realistic way he should remain at the club.

The odds may be huge but there the best he has in my opinion, if he is to remain at Wigan. A win in the cup and scraping into the play offs is not acceptable in my opinion.

As much as i would love him I think he is too close to a first team job in the NRL for him to come to SL.

I live in hope of being proven wrong.

Says who? It was in one Aussie paper yesterday that he's open to offers from British clubs.

I am not at liberty to divulge my source, we will just have to wait and see won't we

Kearney is coach of a national team. Probably the most fiercely passionate of all the national teams. There must be absolutely no problem getting them up for each and every game. Could he cope with our halfd, feckless layabouts?

Sorry, but I'm past paying any attention to these nod, wink and "you'll just have to trust me" merchants.

If someone's told you that Kearney's turned us down, then tell us when, tell us who (or at least how he's supposed to know), and tell us the circs surrounding it. If it's not happening, how can it possibly need to remain a secret?

Until such time as you provide this data, I'll continue to hope for someone like Kearney.

A nods as good as a wink to a blind bat! Eh? Eh? Know what I mean?

Baked bean boogie please ignore the voices, they will go away in time.

I feel such resentment after the Celtic game, I just don't want him here anymore...

C'mon people....how many of you have been checking BBC Sport Website hourly (during the day) since Monday to see if he has gone

Not once have i thought to check anywhere to see if he's been shown the door because it simply won't happen.

It's not Lenagans style imo. I doubt he'll renew his deal but i'm 100% sure he'll be here until the end of this season however bad things get.

Get webb in he's what we need a big ****house to get things going on the pitch

It's in the Wigan Observer his agent saying how Wigan need to act now of they want to sign him for next season or else North Queensland won't release him due to them not being able to find a replacment.

He says he expects to hear Lenagans decision soon.

Yeah read it tonight mate

I think he would be a great addition to the squad biff it up a bit cause the way fielden is going at the moment my nan would slap him all over the pitch

Well given we are now arguably Hock and 16 others I guess we'd better show him the door as well? Some player not as good as him will no doubt improve if that happens to be slightly less good than Hock.

I don't agree we were not a team with Barrett here any more than we weren't a team when Farrell was here, or Edwards or Hanley were here.

The problem with star players at Wigan, if there is one, lies with the other players who if you are right must be sitting back and letting the star do all the work.

Dave

It wont happen.

We are looking at players for 2011 when we will be able to do something with the cap.

Ian Lenagan needs to do something now!
If he's working towards 2011 then we'll be the new Widnes by 2012.
Decisions have to be taken and announcements made.
If this continues season ticket sales for next year will plummet.
Should we lose the next two, home attendances will go through the floor!
Action needs to be taken with days, not weeks or months!

Wigan must be full of toys and dummies that have been thrown out of prams since the Celtic game.
This getting beaten by sides that we think we should beat go' back to the 80s well before Noble and I.L. took over the club.
And its not just a player thing its the Were the Famous Wigan Rugby and we will win this easy mentality of players and Fans.
Teams in the top half of the league we will turn up with the this is a hard game attitude and the ones in the bottom half we turn up with the we can win this just by being here and i feel it will not matter one bit what players we bring in they will get the same mindset and i do not know what the answer is may be if we do finish in the bottom 2 that might change the thinking of some player who come and think we have the god given right to beat lower placed sides.

Celtic did a job on us slowed the game down and got lucky a few times in the last 20mins with 2 on 1 tackles where the ball was ripped out and not spotted we then got frustrated and gave away field position which lost us the game. We also played Ainscough with a damaged knuckle and Roberts with a Hamstring problem which did not help.

At the end of the day we lost a game lets move on to the next with hopefully a full fit team to pick from and win that one.

Player wise he should be looking at 2011 as people have stated we will have more on the cap so that is only sensible.

A decision must be made on Brian Noble's future should be made now, if IL still wants him next season let him be brave enough to come and tell us in the press or if he has in his mind that he will not be here next season then we should get rid now. Teams always see an impact when a new guy comes in anyway, just a suggestion though, not saying this is what I want.

My feeling exactly.

We have about 8 players off contract for next year so surely we'll have more then enough room to move for 2010.

If we don't then we never will as 2010 was always the year Lenagan said would be the time we'd start seeing high profile players coming in again and not cheap 'chance' signings as we've made so far.

Then IL will pull the glesson card out saying hes the big signing

This week was the ideal chance to announce any big signing after the shambles of saturday.

the fans need a lift we cant even sell 5 thousand semi final tickets for godsake. No big names coming this season IMO

You can only announce a signing if the deal's been done. If it hasn't, your hands are tied.

I'm not sure how many more big signings people want for this season. Gleeson WAS a big signing - and he came mid-season. That's quite unusual these days, so it's pretty unfair to just treat it as irrelevant.

I agree you can only annouce when deals are done.

But if you believe IL we were looking at signings for 2010 at the end of 08. He would have known then the players available. IMO deals would have been done and this week was perfect for annoucing them.

We can't worry about signings for new year yet. There is lots of time for development and deals to be made.

Give IL time...

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