not asking for his address but where does he live?

Still in Bradford isn't he? He didn't move houses when he left bradford? Either way it's Leeds side of the M62.

the training ground at Orrell is now run like a full time training facility with full time chefs providing meals through the day.

the squad are split into 3 groups with each team rotating hourly doing weights and the other two groups eating or in the games room (nintendo WII, ping pong table, pool, etc) until its their turn, up until dinner.

In the afternoon its specialist and team training on the field with ball work.

Maguire does not train the team full time but has his "own team" to manage for him, he does a lot of homework on other super league teams via videos and then sets the training schedule accordingly.

for example, the forwards were training for the Hull game 2 weeks before the actual match on tactics to contain their big forwards and also attacking scrum moves for against Warringtons weak sliding defense from the base of the scrum.

something Mr Noble didnt do with his 1960's training regime!!

And boy does it not show!

The 6:30am training is not every day, but it is regular, and i should know as i live next door to one of Madge's 'team', and they run past my house.

He was in Guiseley in Leeds when he coached us. Read he planned to move when Crusaders were in S Wales, don't know the score now they are in Wrexham.

I used to see him a lot in Guiseley Morrison's, but I believe he lives in Burley Woodhead.

Spot on and a professional attitude (or rather the lack of) is something I have mentioned from time to time over the recent seasons. There was a comment from MM in one of the interviews over the Easter period about the players looking after their bodies over the weekend which I took to mean don't go and get ratted on Saturday night!

We used to be a forward thinking club and would employ sprint coaches and the like and while I am sure sports science has moved on since then we used to get things done better off-field than most other clubs. Players would come to Wigan and improve and when they left would often not look as good in other teams.

If the club is now monitoring things like diet and going the whole hog employing all the modern sports science has to offer then we are back on the right lines and I can't see any player with a desire to do well not buying into what is going on.

Dave

Even taking the rest of the post into account?



At 5am, surely you should be able to make it from just about any area of Bradford to Wigan in about 40 minutes?

Yep. Noble didn't live in Bradford though. Like it said, it would take nearly 20 minutes just to get to the motorway. Driving back from the Friday night games takes me at least an hour when there is usually little on the roads. Lets just say I take a liberal view of the speed limit.

Andy's right, I personally live very close to Brian Noble and for me to get from my house to the motorway takes just under 20 minutes at best.

Wigan the other week were training till 10pm, when someone asked why, the responce was, 'You play at night dont you. get on with it'

Clearly the 3 pages shows that it is



Perfect contribution from you as usual though CAM

I have to admit - I've always seen speed "limits" as more of a guide when it comes to driving at daft-o-clock in the morning or very late at night (way after the kids are in bed).

Same here, a couple of times on the M62 late on Friday coming back from games I've had an unmarked police car pull in front of me telling me to "slow down" when I've had that liberal view when there was nothing on the road.

When we lived in Wakefield I once drove to Leeds at midnight to pick my wife and her 2 friends up. I was doing 100ish all the way on the M1 and was followed from the M62 junction by another car. When I got off the motorway I stopped at the lights and the following car pulled next to me with his 'hidden' grill lights blazing. He wound his window down and said "A little slower in future pal".

Incidently, Jonny Walker has the lowest body fat percentage at the club. FACT!!