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He looks to have a pretty impressive CV to me, having worked with the Storm these past three years. I certainly hope he'll be another piece in this highly impressive Wigan jigsaw the club are putting together.

The best of luck to him.

Well if he has experience with working with the likes of Inglis, Falou etc and the likes of youngsters Melbourne seem to have then he is surely a good recruit to have incharge of looking for talent within a pool like Wigans area

It all makes sense now. IL said, in response to a question at the shareholders meeting that they were actively pursuing someone from Australia to look at the scouting and development systems.

It's taken longer than I expected.

Well done to the club again for having the foresight to search and wait for the best qualified personnel.
Oh we need to look far outside the Wigan area for talent, that will be one of his first "Goals and Objectives".

Haha Rogues,
if only i could get my wife on a plane !

You shouldn't have sent your c.v. by snail mail.

This is exactely what all SL clubs should be doing, this young man will have benefitted from working with the best setup in Oz, All SL clubs should sponsor their coaching staff (especially at Acadamy level) to develope skills and expertise, just hope RU don't come and recruit him from SL. Good luck to the lad.

The most shocking thing about all this effort Wigan are putting into youth development and overall growth as a club is that we are not one of the clubs who has to do it.

If only all the other clubs were so thorough in everything they do, we would have a great competition.

I played with John at Ashton before he went to Australia, cracking prop and a super bloke. He worked at Wigan with the Community side of things and he seemed to love working for the club. Superb acquisition (sp?) IMO, a Wigan lad working for the club he loves.

Any chance you can come back to Ashton while your coming home John?

I'm pretty sure John comes from Barrow, or that neck of the woods.
Not a Wiganer that's for sure but still good to have him back.

Everything thats happened behind the scenes this last 18 months just fill me with confidence.

well done IL AGAIN

Except the 2011 home kit

I don't have a player as the scapegoat for this year. It's the kit.

same here.

Play in it and it's why we lost. Don't play in it and lose and we lost because we didn't wear it.

Forgot about that..Actually Ian fook off you have killed this once great club.

Yet another example of how Wigan are leading the way to the rest of Super League with their backroom set up. In truth we are just becoming much more professional, more like a NRL club, and that is what all SL clubs need to do for playing standards to improve. Our improvement last season and the results on the pitch certainly speak for themselves.

How dare you get back on topic! Make sure your next post is kit related, preferably in a negative way.

I shall try again then.

This appointment is yet another example of how Wigan are leading the way to the rest of Super League with their backroom set up. In truth we are just becoming much more professional, more like a NRL club, and that is what all SL clubs need to do for playing standards to improve. Our improvement last season and the results on the pitch certainly speak for themselves.

However this is overshadowed by the new kit which is absolute rubbish. We certainly lag way behind the rest of the league in terms of kit design and this needs to be sorted asap. A top kit designer needs to be brought in from the NRL for kit design standards to improve imo. Heads must roll for this.

Is that better?

Sterling effort Sir!

It is a crap kit though.

Agent provocateur.

You mean Wigan following Warrington's lead?

Woof Woof..!!