Agreed, gave us some golden nuggets of nostalgia that we would never have known about, such as getting drunk with Mal Reilly after the Manly game as well as a bladdered Dave Whelan getting chucked out of his own bed by his wife on the same evening.

Cracking interview, RIP Maurice

Nice interview + certainly has Hanley as his No.1.
You bought us much joy on the terraces with the players/coaches you provided
R.I.P Maurice Lindsay

Classic moment of Mo when he confronted the coach of one of the Australian club sides we played during a GB tour on the touchline. Think Maurice was tour manager at the time; it was early 90s. In a moment of unbelievable arrogance, the Aussie coach - not sure if it was Phil Gould, or someone similar equally disrespectful - brought subs on in the second-half who hadn't even figured on the team-sheet. Well, Mo wasn't having that. And quite right too.

Thanks for the memories Maurice, RIP.

There are many aspects to his life and career that made a difference but the biggest for me was not what he did for Wigan (great though that was) but how he helped to drag the game of RL into a modern age - despite a lot of resistance, shame that a lot of that vision has gone backwards since, RIP.

He wanted to sign some really good players but could not in the last few years he was here by the salary cap

Massive figure within the game's history. Even as a long suffering Leeds fan during your glory years I'm sorry he's gone. RIP

A truly unique character and don’t think there will ever be anyone quite like him.

Really enjoyed his final interview with KR.

Rest In Peace Maurice & thank you.

That was what I was alluding to a touch line argument and Mo did not back down,Wigan through and through.Great visionary.

I have fond memories of Maurice probably the best was in the 1980s. We had won the John Player Trophy Final and all the players and staff were celebrating in Chaplin's Nightclub. The DJ started a competition regarding who could do the most press-ups. The players cajoled Maurice into being involved, a bad mistake he won easily. I bet he never let them forget it, it certainly gained him the respect of players and fans alike.

A marvellous guy, a great ambassador for rugby league and a Wigan legend (even though he came from Horwich).

RIP my friend.

An excellent summary that Jon.
For me he didn't get enough accolades for what he achieved for the club and the game in general.
I was fortunate to meet a few times and always found him to be charismatic, open and a funny guy. A gentleman.

I wonder where the game would be now had there been no salary cap during that Whelan/Lindsay era pre Lenagan taking over. You had Whelan cashed up and clubs like Leeds, Saints, Bradford would’ve gone toe to toe with any attempts to spend our way to titles. You had Simon Moran getting involved at Wire and he would’ve took them on as well and then somebody like Koukash comes later and he seems the sort that would’ve relished taking on guys like Whelan and Lindsay. Who knows which other businessmen/women would’ve fancied jumping in at other clubs.

I’m confident we’d be a damn site better off as a sport then we are now. We’ve been left to rot really, all on the basis that clubs wanted an ‘even competition’. It’s that even we’ve had 4 Grand Final winners in 24 years.

The clubs with no ambition are happy though so all is well.

Don't forget Branson was involved early doors too

My thoughts too. I've often wondered if the potential menace of Whelan throwing his pocket money at Wigan and buying half an Origin team was such a threat that the Salary Cap was fast-tracked through. It certainly screwed Mo during his second tenure, as he had no Plan B.

For a brief time, I supported the Salary Cap. I thought that maybe it was necessary to prevent three or four clubs running away with everything. But that's happened anyway, and yet now we routinely lose our best players before they're 25, half the game feels as though it's broke, and the presence of megastars in British RL is a thing of the past ... unless they arrive here by default.

Mo tried to turn British RL into a major sport, and he almost succeeded. But maybe that's never going to happen whoever gets the reins. It feels as though we'll be forever confined to the M62, primarily because lots of folk in the game seem to want it that way. And even if they don't, I can't help feeling that ship has now sailed.

Very sad news indeed . Maurice Lindsey was a 'visionary', and was responsible for turning us around in the early 80's to what we became. A very major force in Rugby League once again. The 1970's were dire, well apart from Bill Ashurst in the team . I did manage to speak briefly with him once when he was doing his 'day job', at Chester races, around 2003. He was a very articulate and thoughtfully spoken man indeed.

Interesting comments about the salery cap. Wasn't it Maurice who brought it in to hopefully prevent clubs going bust?

RIP Maurice.

Well if he did, he never stopped complaining about it later.

A lot has been said about ML & what he did for the game but don’t think many people realise what a good boxer he was in his younger days.

Not many men wanted to fight Lindsey who was as tough and skilful in the ring as he was in his approach to business.

This may be my imagination but didn’t the salary cap start as a percentage of income with no upper limit. It was only after Mo left it was changed to a finite amount.

Really sad to see the lack of acknowledgment of his passing from Latics. He's a former chairman of their club and whilst some of the fan base might not have liked him, you'd expect a club to be above that.

The problem there is that a significant number of their fans still hate him ... mainly because their grandads told them they should.

I dont think that is the case, some fans resented the idea of merger clubs, quite rightly, I mean there was plenty on the table, and I think Mo would have been happy to see them in the final run, but for a large campaign against that part.

They’re on about Wigan Athletic fans mate.

Some of the comments have been sick really but that’s what you get from a minority of Latics ‘fans’ (and I support them).