Quote ="Ferocious Aardvark"The other odd thing is that why has Maguire got the credit for improving Wigan, and not inheriting Noble's spadework, yet when Noble worked wonders for Bradford, certain voices always insisted he just struck lucky with inheriting someone else's spadework?
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I would say the difference is Noble inherited a good squad of players at Wigan, who had won nothing, but won nothing himself. While Maguire has won nowt yet the improvement overall, & specifically with players like Roberts & Richards, marks him out as a special coach in the making. Noble took on a champion team at Bradford & maintained & developed them.