The fact is Wigan did enquire about Bennett and that we were not given a flat 'No' initially. The fact is we were looking at the right calibre of coach as opposed to hovering around the "Sean McRae's" of this world.

If you have been given 2 mobile numbers, one being Kelly Brook and the other is Susan Boyle, which would you rather ring?

Both unrealistic i feel, there are some very good people out there who i feel would be very good in sports such as athletics etc.

That would be great for all our forwards, especially Fielden, Eamon and Prescott

Why not feka?

Thought Forshaw had impressed all round.



And although being a Wigan lad I'm not sure if he was a fan (if some kind of homecoming was being thought of).



One's got a great set of lungs.... the other can sing.

Didn't know Feka was a back these days?

I know you’ve got a back ground in this area so I was wondering what you considered a specialist in this area?

I know Pongia is a PT as his job now but it’s on a personal instead of team level. I’m sure he’s fully qualified as well.

Will be interesting to hear what Radlinski makes of all this on Radio Manchester tomorrow night.
Jack Dearden and Trevor Hunt will be having trouser explosions.

Speak of the devil...
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Did Edwards bring him to Wasps?

Kudos to Edwards if he did as it shows he’s got an eye for talent.

I'm pretty sure it was Craig White (another Wiganer) who asked him to go to Wasps with him.

Not really, have you seen Heather Small?

I should have read the full article before i posted.

"Ain't love a surprise?" lol

Her eyes can't be all that either to be fair!

Well i'm losing all faith in this rumour

I've never known a coach to be sacked and nothing being announced almost 2 days later.

Wigan are reaching a crossroads.

We need a coach of the Wayne Bennett calibre, no assistant who we hope will come good.

We need a top class coach with top class methods.

As for Griffin - if we sign him and that is our only prop signing, IL needs to sack himself, that would be an utterly pathetic signing.

We need a world class halfback and a world class prop until we get that, we will struggle.

IL im sure understands this, he needs to act on it, acting like he understands at fans forums is no longer acceptable, he now needs to start dealing with the issues.

In the same way the pathetic Warriors World woman, the lack of merchandise, the missing "head of retail", the pathetic ebay cock ups, the falling crowds and so on, these issues now need to be dealt with.

I hope he sets a marker by handing G Hock his P45.

I know what your saying

But

No coach has ever been sacked with a weird situation going on at the same time either.

If he went yesterday then I don't think the club would even want to post two massive announcements on continuous days.

They obviously have to think about the RLFans computer servers as we all know there ain’t no better time on here than when Wigan doing something other fans can blow out of proportions.

What is this going to prove? Send the lad to re-hab and fight the ban. Claim mitagating circumstances-not sure what these are but he can work on these with his lawyer. He did not do anything wrong imo, so we should fight it.

Are you on the same stuff?!





How can you possibly claim he did nothing wrong? He broke the doping policy of the game, how is that not wrong?

I'm starting to worry about your chairman, some of his actions and on other occasions lack of them make me wonder if he is the right man. Why did he go to austrailia? does he not have scouts for this? all negotiations can be done by video call nowadays so there really is no need. He came back with noone(that we know of).
I'm honestly not fishing, but as an example our chairman didn't go to oz, but his coaching staff recognised we needed a centre (obvious) and so approached possible candidates and came back with Soliola, same last year with Puletua. Its not difficult and i imagine that the "wigan" name is still a huge draw down under, more so than saints even, so what gives?

He plays for Wigan. That is why it is not wrong.

If he has been taking drugs, there are no mitigating circumstances.

However, I think handing him his P45 would be the worst thing that Wigan could do. They should look after him properly, and ensure he gets the help he needs to sort his life out.

Hock is obviously not the sharpest tool in the box, and sacking him could send him over the edge.

And make the biggest mistake he will ever make as a Wigan chairman.

Sack Hock or fail to work out a way to stop him going to a rival without us receiving major compensation and he will come back to bite us on the ass in a massive, massive way.

We should not come out the worst for this situation.

I’d personally bleed Hock emotionally dry if I was IL for the next two years with all sorts of community work.

Sure there are. Claim he was drunk, abused as child etc etc.




Agreed.