Wigan Today says hes ruled himself out.

He's not on his way to us at all.

To be fair - whilst I'm not saying its untrue - the article in Wigan Today provides no evidence or even any direct quote from Wane on the topic - it's got about as much substance as our discussions on here.

[urlhttps://www.wigantoday.net/sport/rugby-league/shaun-wane-rules-himself-out-of-running-for-warrington-wolves-job-3173512[/url

Was it a source at the palace, or a friend of Meghan's that got in touch with Wigan Today.

According to Karl Fitzpatrick we haven't decided on a shortlist of candidates yet. That could be BS though as could be Wane's supposed denial.
Personally I can't see it being Wane or Powell, more likely McDermott or another Aussie.

All adds to the intrigue, not knowing whether it's bluff or double bluff.

Wigan today has good connections with Wane.

I see young Latu is doing some coaching at Latchford Giants ,could he be honing his skills to become our next head coach ?

Roll on the start of the season so I can have some posts to read that relate to rugby and our performance - or lack of it - rather than the endless speculation on who will be our coach next year. It's soooo boring.

have you not been watching the classic games on sky? they've had the joey game on and the 2006 play off game just finished.

Was a nice trip down memory lane

Buckle up, it could be Long season...

Roy Hodgson?

Great game.
Got the dvd

You did a job in us that year....
Got you back though.... 2011......

Out of interest, who did Warry play in next play off game that year, and how did Johns go?

we played bradford and got beat at odsal, johns didn't turn up at all that night.

Shame as he was epic. That's Bull's team were bloody annoying though, Peacock and Fielden were immense.
What was score?

Was that the one where we took about 6000 fans and had about 60 odd coaches? I still remember all the Wire fans singing along to Bon Jovi's 'Livin on a Prayer' pre match like it was yesterday.

I’m confused. Are we talking about the WCC Bradford v Newcastle or Wires play off games with Johns following beating Leeds?

The PO game following the Leeds game with Johns was against Hull away.

The Bradford v Wire game was the year before the game after when Briers got the drop goal v Leeds.

ah, well, you see he didn't turn up cos this was a year later, he was here in 2005, this was 2006.



yes, the club were getting as many coaches as they could.



yes and or no



not quite, johns was over in 05, we did the leeds game, then hull away was in the league, then we played hull in the play offs at the hj.

The bradford game i referred to was in the play offs in 2006

40-24 apparently, bulls went out in the next round to hull

From the outside it seems like one of the biggest decisions Warrington will have made in their history. If you get the right man you can become a true force and finally win a few titles. If not, you could end up in another round of rebuilding and disappearing from contention for a while.

Wane is a proven winner, but can he replicate it outside of Wigan? It's a big unknown as his era there was filled with dour anti-rugby tactics that didn't wash even with the Wigan fans at times. Powell is the opposite, lovely rugby but no success. It's a tough choice picking between those two. I'd be inclined to go witth the proven winner, but easy to see him falling short and being unpopular. Or do you risk another NRL assistant coach? Perhaps better than Wane particularly as a coach, but likely to be short term, especially if successful as they'll get a job in the NRL and leave.

Needs to be some kind of context with Powell though. He took over a Cas side who were an average team. They finished second bottom the year before he took over and had 22 losses that season. He's turned them into a top 5 team and won the LLS whilst being 80 mins away from winning both the CC and the Grand Final. He also loses his best player every other season whilst not having the resources or facilities of any other the bigger clubs; Clark, Solomona, Hardaker, Gale. Since he was appointed coach in 2013 he has finished above us 4 times in 8 seasons.