Fair enough. I wasn't aware they had changed the rules. So Wigan didn't actually need a special exemption then?

They've got to two semi finals this year, they haven't under achieved that much.

Nobles inability to get them anywhere near the top 2 and then left them with too much to do in the play offs has cost him his job.

If this bloke is any good, and if he's been the assistant coach at Melbourne he will be, and can deal with the step up to head coach Wigan will be pretty dangerous next year. They'll also have a number of players playing for new contracts which means there'll be far better performances from some of their more underachieving players.

The rules were changed this year please do keep up

I think if you look on the Wigan board i have said I.L. could have handled things better regarding this.

The big advantage of M.M. Coming is Wane going to Assistant coach he will bring the passion to the players and drive them harder in training.

Not only that but Wane will have the respect off all the younger players to as they have all worked with him previously. The Wane appointment is the best decision IL has made yet as he has done tremendous work with the younger players and deserves his chance.

Quite incredible the depth of knowledge IL has about what characters are saying what on this (and other) forums, even down to knowing what their avatars are. Has he got no work to do?

Whoops just remembered, he has no work to do except watch Saints and Leeds.

Does IL run the IMBRL team as well then?

Leneghan is the new Chris Caisley.

lol

According to Lenaghan the rules were changed in September of this year.

Looks like RFL bending over backwards to give dispensations to Wigan again

Love the panic this appointment is causing on Merseyside!

Saints fans seem to be more interested in talking about a resurgent Wigan than the GF...!

The thing they have feared for a decade is finally happening.

As many of their top players come to the end of their careers or leave the club, they can see that the great Wigan club is on the rise again.

We have a top young Aussie coach, an assistant who personifies everything that Wigan stands for and a golden generation of young talent coming through. No wonder they are worried!

The tide is turning.

Our scouse friends are already in disarray.

Can't wait for next season!

is that a direct quote from Warrington fans from the last 30 years?

The gap between your side of this year and ours was already close, as we saw in the semi-final and other games this season.

We will be better next year even if we don't sign any new players, simply because our talented young players will be a year older. You can't say the same.

Added to that of course is the difference MM and SW will make.

No wonder you're scared...

When did Saints last appoint a British coach.
Potter was never a head coach in Australia.

Its like 2000 all over again. I dont know why the warrington fans get so much stick for their year of the wolf, considering wigan fans have been saying its the year of the warrior for nigh on 10 years now.

Potter had been a head coach for a couple of years somewhere though hadn't he.

Hanley was the last home grown appointment - but he was quite useful in his one year




As long as the RFL are consistent (ha! two words that do not go together) with all future appointments i don't see any issue with it.

Matt Elliot, Brian Noble, Tony Smith, Shaun McRae, Mick Potter all had no Head Coach experience when they got their first jobs in SL - all didn't exactly make a bad first of it either.

i can confirm that all of our players will be 1 year older in 2010 than they were in 2009.

You speak the truth my learned friend, that Grade 10 must really be working for you Reveen

Not forgetting the fact we have already strengthened for next season in the areas we have been hit hardest this year, adding an experienced prop, a Kiwi international centre & have the current England hooker returning and our 4 or 5 very promising youngsters getting more experience.

While Wigan have lost their most destructive and influential forward for 2 years and have a chairman telling the new coach there can be no more signings.

Don't get me wrong i will openly admit I am impressed with the Wigan appointment it is very promising but i'm not sure the tide has turned just yet.

Where has that come from?
Did you hear ILs interview on Radio Manchester last night?

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did you not know we own the RFL again since you gave it up

My original statement came directly from the comments on your own board so maybe i was being optimistic to believe some of them.

Nothing in that article suggests any one will be signed though just a few maybe's and what if's he goes as far as to say its odds against anyone coming in for 2010.

2011 i'd expect to see a proper change in the squad - unless MM works miracles with the current bunch