If Flanagan is willing to come over for 2 or 3 years I would have him in a heartbeat, excellent coach able to get the maximum out of what was perceived to a Cronulla side that nobody in the NRL fancied to go anywhere near the Grand Final.
He may be just what we need to shake the squad up in a similar way Madge did with Nobles leftovers plus one or two Aussie imports.
I don't know the ins and outs of the salary cap debacle at the Sharks but surely it is as much the admistrators responsibility to govern the cap as the coach, I feel he has been hung out to dry by the club and the NRL.

Aye, and let’s bring in Skerrett, Gregory and Monie

If Lam turns our season around then he's the obvious choice if he wants to stay. However, if he has a good season but isn't interested, I'll prepare for the inevitable response but...John Winder? It does depend on whether that's actually a role he's interested in and whether the club believe he's got the right qualities (it's pretty hard for fans to know those details) but he'll have more than served his apprenticeship as an assistant coach, under two different styles of coach. And sometimes continuity is good for a club.

We could go for Barrett but he's got a poor reputation as a head coach. Every time there's a need to bring in a new coach the fans start suggesting big names, past legends, current players with limited coaching experience (the most ridiculous suggestions of them all), whoever the 'new Michael Maguire' might be. But just look at some of the names being suggested within Super League - Chris Chester, Ian Watson. Coaches who got the job because the head coach moved on and they were the next in line. Salford were very tentative about giving Watson the job but he's done well with them. Big name coaches may have some pulling power regarding players but generally it's the club and money that matter most. Maguire managed to bring in 3 Storm players but that was just fortunate.

We also shouldn't forget that Shaun Wane wasn't a big name coach either. He was simply next in line and had worked under a couple of different coaches with different ideas and developed his own.

However, I think ultimately who becomes coach isn't the most important thing. The best team is still going to have the best chance of winning. Recruit the best players and you could probably achieve some success with only a half decent coach. The most important person at the club is Kris Radlinski, as he seems to be the one most involved in recruitment, as well as performance.

Daryl Powell for me would be first choice followed by Chris Chester.

Please no. I can’t stand Powell.

I think I’d actually shed a tear! Lammy all the way.

You're joking aren't you? Powell would be ideal IMO.

Powell would be a really bad fit imo. I don’t think he has the temperament to coach a ‘big’ team with the associated pressure and expectation that comes with it.

No I’m not joking at all. He’s just not right for Wigan in my view. I don’t like his public persona and he’s won nothing.

Lammy is in the seat and has a clear philosophy which has not yet bedded in. He deserves the chance to embed his systems and a few players who he thinks can deliver it. If he’s given that chance and fails, I’ll hold my hand up and say I was wrong.

Spot on.

Ellery Hanley

Seems like a good coach, but I just cannot stand him. I also get the impression he doesn't really like Wigan either. Plus, as others have said, he's still not won anything.

Exactly how i see it

Agent Millward with a Yorkshire chip on his shoulder,

Shane Flannagan

Adrian Lam.

Has any one not thought that Edwards will walk on the pitch at Half time on Good Friday and sign his contract in front of a sell out 25000 crowd

no

Are we opening up the home ends to Saints fans?