Just been on the news over here

Read it before on twitter rugby league week but cant find ewt official

"Michael Maguire to coach South Sydney in 2012... EXCLUSIVE in RLW today"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





There is going to be a lot of dissapointed faces when people get up and see this.

It should help that our two best performances last season were both under Wane. Lets hope he has learnt all Maguire knows and that he will do an even better job and hopefully he will be Wigan coach for years and years.

As much as I think Shaun Wane will make a fantastic coach and have no worries about our future with him in charge, im still absolutely gutted if this is true. Really thought he was the kind of person who would see out his contract then go pursue his career in the NRL.

This is not the time to stick the boot in so I won't. I think you need to recaliberate your view of the nrl against sl. It's not personal towards Wigan.

There is nothing official yet. But like I said it's on the Aussie sports news at work.

Your misunderstanding what im saying, what I said has got nothing to do with how much better then NRL is to SL. More so about what kind of person Maguire is.

You can't blame him for going really though, RL is huge in Aus and he is going to one of the biggest clubs in the game, the only bigger would be Brisbane over there really.

I thought he would see out his deal as well but this huge chance for him has become available.

Shaun Wane will hopefully make a fine coach, lets be honest, Maguire was not going to stay after his contract anyway, Wane is getting his chance a year early and he fully deserves it. He has worked his way up. I guess the question now is who will be assistant? Should we go for a highly rated assistant from Aus, or should we promote the likes of Radderz? He doesn't sound like he wants to coach, I think he enjoys his current role.

I suppose all the usual ex-player names will be branded about as well.... Lam, Farrell, Edwards....

What we musn't forget is that while Maguire has turned the team around and has brought fresh ideas etc... he has now passed these onto Wane and Maguire says himself that Wane and Bitcon are a massive part of what we do and they will still be around. Hopefully we won't notice he is gone.

Come on Maguire leave this country with your head held high as a champion with the double! Win the lot and make us remember you as the coach you started this Wigan dominance of the sport. Force us to make a flag with your name on when you have gone! Go out with a bang!

I personally think if this is true then an ideal opportunity can arise we have heard Lenagan mention an NRL link-up well Souths under Madge is the perfect solution i just hope he doesn't have thoughts of taking anyone with him ( Joel, Sam, Mossop, Farrell etc ) luckily i'd like to think Madge would be respectful enough not to want to weaken Wigan too much but i'd be all in favour of us loaning the King's, Davies, Russell's etc. Wonder wether he might take Gleeson with him

Fucking Bull! But in Wane I trust, that he has learnt everything under MaGuire! He didnt do to badly for his two games last season

And to add, why is all the detrimental news coming out now? Gleeson, Maguire etc? Next Sam will be going to Union...

I've just realised?!!! Maguire for Inglis swap deal

I know im on a night shift but you ve lost me

Do you not see its obvious?

Gleeson has left now which means we have some salary space open next season?

With Hoffman returning to Aus after his contract is up? We have opened up a Quota space for Inglis to take over from Hoffman and also found a replacement for Gleeson whilst making it easier for MaGuire to leave a season an early! It all makes sense now...

INGLIS NO.3 2012

Old rumour, lol, see rumours thread

Whether this is true or false, hope the club make an official comment on it sooner rather than later.

We've had more than enough disruption over the last month or so.

I'm on my way home from work now i will get the news on when i get in.its nrl fox show tonight will be a main topic on there if there is owt in it.

Dont want him to go but if he goes he goes and good luck to him. If Wane takes over I would like an assistant with technical knowledge of the game as Wane would be the chief motivator. Other than that what about Lam as coach and Wane stays as assistant for a bit longer?

If this is true, it is the reason we have been sub-par the last few weeks. Madge may have let all the players know and thus resulting in poor performances on the field.

I don't see how Lam would be any better than Wane - who knows the club/SL and Madge's methods etc, why bring in an outsider who would probably want to start changing things.

If (and it is a big if as so far there is absolutely no evidence to confirm this) madge does go early then Wane should be given the chance, if Radders does not want to be assistant then the club should either promote from within the exisiting ranks. Might it also be tempting to look at bringing in someone like Phil Bailey (if he is interested) to work through the coaching setup as well.

What is it with Wiganers and official announcements.

I cannot see anything on tinternet anyone got a link?

Along with pies, we just love 'em!

to be honest its nothing i didnt expect the only bit that bothers me is things like this being announced at this stage of the season.

I think Wane will be a very good head coach he ticks all the boxes for me and with Rads as his number 2 you have 2 men who love the club and with the tips he would of picked up from Madge over the last 2 years i think things look good

If Madge is off, lets hope he finishes with the double.

Well I can't see anything on the Oz news sites. So at this moment in time I will consider this a rumour until Wigan make an official pie...