Do people think all this has been in the pipeline for a while? Has brown been used to fill a gap until KC\Longy ready? Seems strange how Brown has left without a job and it's known he's applied for some in Aus. It all seems to have fitted into place quite nicely.

KC was being lined up to replace Brown at the end of next year. That was always the plan. Browns in laws have health issues and that's the reason he's gone early.

Don,t think so, Browny's job was to re build the team and stay competitive for silverware, KC as Pete says was still learning his apprenticeship. Daniel Anderson told McManus that Longy would make a great coach one day.
I think its just been accelerated 1 season, to be honest I thought it could have been the other way around Longy ending up as coach with KC as asssistant.
We don,t really know how its going to work out, will it be "2 heads better than one" or "Too Many Cooks"

Did Wigun sack Longy or did he walk away?

Bit of both I think. I seem to recall getting the impression they were "professionally incompatible".

Longy won't coach "Thugby".

It must have been hard for Wane to accept that Long knew far more about the game than he.

Our Coach has made a comment in the St Helens Star:

“Me and Longy are good mates and always will be, but I don’t know the dynamics of where he is at with Salford.

“I have probably had a million messages off Longy but I know he is in Australia at the minute coaching with Samoa in the Four Nations,”

So it looks like Longy has been asking is there a job going?????

I'm not convinced on Long. If he proves himself at Salford then look at him but they haven't exactly set the league on fire. If anything they've gone backwards since Noble left.

Nothing to do with 70% new playing staff,a new coach, plus Hock's distruption and the Owner coming out with all sorts in the media upsetting the camp?

Or Long could be a rubbish coach.

If you remember the Smith - Holdsworth - Patten attacking triangle they had, it was extremely effective. Phil Vievers gave all the credit for the attacking work to Long. It was a belting set up given Salford's other deficiencies at the time. It also re-launched Matty Smith's career.

That sort of thing is exactly what we need and given the step up in quality from Smith-Holdsworth-Patten to Walsh-Burns-Lomax, together with a better team around them, we could be looking at something very exciting.

Salford today is a bloody minefield. I don't think you can judge any individual on what's going on there, with all the disruption.

I thought they did alot better after noble left????

That's fair enough but I'm not sure the words of a guy who he worked with carries that more weight. I mean, Matty Smith is pretty much the same player he was at Saints. He hasn't added much to his game with the ball in hand. Certainly, I'd be surprised if Long could teach Walsh anything about how to play half back.

Which you can understand given the permanent disfigurement that he suffered from the assault by the verminous scum Newton

Wigan are extremely structured, thats not Longy's way at all and thats probably were any "professional incompatabilities" come from

Smith said he enjoyed working with Long when they were both at Salford and Smith did look very good when he was there.

Saints delaying the assistant coach announcement leads us to believe it's because Longy is in Oz. But so is Wello and God forbid Brian Noble who's been quoted as saying he has a job lined up for next year?.

Noble might have got that RFL position of "Anger Management Consultant", first task Mr Wane@Wigoon Land.

Did he? Not to me. To me, he looked like exactly the same player as he ever was i.e. Paul Deacon with a better kicking game.

Sean did a great job on London with the young backs and they loved working with him, but sadly his head was still not right then, since joining Salford he seems to have kept his head down, hope he settles now he has a lot to give to the game.

Longy is a very very good hands on coach. He's not the type of guy to be telling the guys, he's more of a coach to show the players what he means.

If his head is sorted, he's a great assert, if it's not he's a distraction.

He'll be fine. His head is sorted and his personal life is as stable as ever.

You know as well as me that can change in a second.

Very true mate, but at the minute he's settled and happy. He could work wonders for our attack.

He spoke really well on the TV. I'd be quite happy to have a settled Longy back in the fold.