Not much of a shock but he's confirmed to Wish FM that this season will be his last.

Shame, but as you say, not a shock. Wish him luck in his future and new career, he's been a great player for us.

Good luck Coles. Fingers crossed you go out with both a 2011 CC and GF winners medals.

Wish FM reporter Kelly O'Donnell: Coley made the decision to retire a couple of wks ago, telling me "Its been tough but Im doing it on my own terms"

Was a little gutted to hear this but as you say no surprise. I do think that this year has been a good your for him and think that he will be missed done a job in the absence of Feilden.

One of the most under rated signings of the SL Era. I think hes retiring at the right time though. Hopefully go out on a high.

He's been a great signing for us and still has a big role to play. www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480 "is to return to his old job as a quantity surveyor but hopes to retain an involvement with the club"

He's been a great signing for us and still has a big role to play. www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480 "is to return to his old job as a quantity surveyor but hopes to retain an involvement with the club"

Great that a player is able to do that instead of dragging out every last ounce of his career. Decent job to go to as well. Been a good SL player for many years.

Good on him. He's had a good career at Wigan and before that Salford. He showed great loyalty to Salford when he turned down Wigan 3 years before finally signing (which is why I found the reaction of the Salford fans strange to say the least when he did finally join).

We can hopefully send him along with Maguire and The Hoff out on a real high with a winners medal or 3 tucked away.

Sounds very much like a certain Shaun Wane. Coached the kids at the club whilst having a full-time job.

Hopefully, things might go in a similar dircetion for Andy.

Very well spoken, intelligent guy, who should do well if he wants to carve a coaching career (even if it would need to be a part-time one - at least initially)

Good luck Andy in whatever you choose to do.

Good call, thanks for all the memories Andy, hope you go out with a bang! Big chance for Lee Mossop to step up and will help O'Carroll, Davies, Hughes and Crosby get a bit more game time

Great effort from Coles in his years at our club.. been a great asset.

With a bit of luck this means that we'll see a bit of more of the Coleys down here in Wiltshire next year.

To be honest I didn't think he played "that" well for us for quite some time since his signing. Then one day, we played Salford away and he had a stormer...never looked back since. Think it was this game: wigan.rlfans.com/news.php?readmore=660 I do feel he's one of the players who seems to be have been transformed most since the arrival of MM. We miss him when he's not playing and he'll be tough to replace.

To be honest I didn't think he played "that" well for us for quite some time since his signing. Then one day, we played Salford away and he had a stormer...never looked back since. Think it was this game: wigan.rlfans.com/news.php?readmore=660 I do feel he's one of the players who seems to be have been transformed most since the arrival of MM. We miss him when he's not playing and he'll be tough to replace.

Sometimes when a player performs consistently well week after week, we as fans take them for granted but without players like Andy Coley doing the hard graft Wigan as a team would be a weaker unit. It's only when they are injured we realised how much the team misses them.

Good luck for the future Andy, hope you can go out with some winners medals.

Brought a tear to my eye on Twitter.



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I might be hanging the boots up but il always be a cherry and White ! #lovethisclub

Only wished he had joined Wigan earlier in his career and would of liked to have seen him play more often for Great Britain and England.

Thought he was excellant in the WCC game without Lima and Fielden and hopefully a weeks rest will do him good for the play-off run in.

He's been transformed since MM came in and now he'll be incredibly difficult to replace. Top player, top man.

Thanks for everything Andy

At the Riversiders Presentation last night he said he'd be around next season helping organise stuff for Lockers testimonial year - great to see him keeping links with the club!

Quite a few players come to Wigan and leave as fans. Piggy and Feka for example.