You may well be right, and I 'feel' that you are right.

With Mo, we knew he loved Wigan RLFC.

Folk can say what they like about Maurice Lyndsey, but he was/is, Wigan RL, through and through.

...because Noble isn't being replaced by Shaun Wane

Says who?

Wait & see.

Some posters on here know my link into the club, but I hope you understand that I won't reveal it.

Fair enough. I'm assuming it's who everyone is expecting though?

My original post stating McGuire as Coach and Wane as his assistant is somewhere earlier in this merged thread (page 1 I think)

Noble v Lengan. Oh dear, see timesonline.typepad.com/rugby_le ... again.html

Noble v Lengan. Oh dear, see timesonline.typepad.com/rugby_le ... again.html

I disagree, Ian.

Quote ="Canyoubelieveit"Noble v Lengan. Oh dear, see timesonline.typepad.com/rugby_le ... again.html'" If that insinuation is true that Wigan were announcing their new coach via a press conference in the lead up to the Grand final, had we made it, then I am even less convinced about Mr Lenegan than I was before.

Quote ="Canyoubelieveit"Noble v Lengan. Oh dear, see timesonline.typepad.com/rugby_le ... again.html'" If that insinuation is true that Wigan were announcing their new coach via a press conference in the lead up to the Grand final, had we made it, then I am even less convinced about Mr Lenegan than I was before.

Sounds like there was a bit of friction there all right. Got to agree that this squad simply isn't good enough at the moment...

I think that if we had won, the press release would not have been released until after the GF

Could do with a fans forum right about now...

I wish there was I could have asked Noble how many Weetabix he can eat in a morning.

Me too.


IL should stop talking garbage, go out and buy us another prop instead of treating the coach of Wigan RL with next to zero respect.

Of course it is!! Are young players like phelps, Joel, tommy, Sam, Prescott, mcilorum & mossop not going to get better? Have they reached thier peaks already?

Can more not be extracted from feka, fielden, piggy, gleeson and Roberts?

There's so much more we could get out of this talented squad

Our team isn't as good as Saints or Leeds. Simple really.

IMO we are as good as Saints and we proved that last night. Also we will get better and Saints are already in decline with their key players getting older, more injury prone and slower.

Why don't you try being positive once in a while

Coley can put weight on and cut out the stupid penalties.

Fielden can put weight on, get some fire in his belly and cut the mistakes.

Riddell can get fitter.

Roberts in my eyes has comeon loads since the start of the season, always looks like a lazy bludger but he has got it and he needs to be given space to run with the ball.

Gleeson is really trying his heart out he needs to be given the ball with space to use his footwork to get the best out of him and Roberts but that is down to the halfbacks.

If us mere mortals can see that why couldn't Noble?

Looks like McGuire
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There is almost the equiv of a new front row in the players we have! Feka, piggy, fielden & Coley all can do much better.

At least one person isn't all doom and gloom

It will be like a new front row if we do what I said, add to that Ben Davies,O'Carroll and Mossop competing for the prop role I reckon the new coach will drop players untill they shape up.

After a tough pre-season doing what I stated I would give Fielden, Feka and Coley their chance and based on their performances would coach/drop them accordingly which is something Noble failed to do in all the time he was here.

When you look at other teams and how their players have progressed and look at us I don't see much of an improvement exept in Phelps due to Radlinski tutoring him.

I can't wait for next season lets hope McGuire gets them all firing on all cylinders ala Nathan Brown.

Well its been said on here McGuire has had a bit of experience at all areas of coaching like conditioning aswell. Hopefully that on its own with mean that he can get us through a quality pre season and start the season from the first game. That on its own would leave less work to do later on instead of playing catch up

If we HAVE managed to do what a good number of NRL clubs have tried over the last 18 months..then the club should be applauded

When you have a legend like Bennett and top coaches like Bellamy saying your the next big coach..You must have something about him.

really hope we have pulled this off

I've spoke to ex-NRL players about pre season training over there and they say its sickeningly hard fitness wise as opposed to over here which is a bit of a pi55 up and training abroad.

Palea'aesina, I really like him as do the fans as he knows how much it means to play for Wigan and he gives it everything he's got every time but he needs to get fitter and lose about 1 or 2 stone as does Riddell. If Palea'aesina got fit we would have our very own Moimoi as they are he same style of player. Please get fit Feka!

Rivvie pike beckons.

Which I would imagine is pretty difficult given some of your previous posts.

Do you honestly believe Wigan would be so stupid as to announce the sacking of a coach the week before a Grand Final in which they were due to appear?

You've truly got to be the simplest kind of headcase to believe that.

Nobby knew he was going weeks, if not months, ago - but Wigan sat on it to prevent the resulting three-ring circus interfering with, firstly the CC semi-final, and secondly, the play-offs.

Yeah, so they then go and announce it three days before the club's first appearance in a Grand Final for about five years.

Sorry to namecall, but some people deserve it - you utter prat.