Sean Long's free these days.

is he? what happened with Wigan?

Sean Long has left Wigan, less than three months after being appointed as an assistant coach at the DW Stadium.

The 36-year-old former St Helens and Great Britain scrum-half quit his post as assistant coach at Salford on 19 April and four days later was appointed by home-town club Wigan.

Long worked alongside head coach Shaun Wane and assistants Iestyn Harris and Paul Deacon with the Warriors but he leaves the club with immediate effect.

"Whilst it remains clear to the Wigan staff that Sean is a highly-skilled and competent coach, he has found it difficult as a new staff member to integrate into the disciplined and already high-performing culture at the Wigan club," said an official statement.

"This has been particularly challenging for him at such a crucial time, part way through the season.

"The parting was mutual and Wigan wish Sean well in his next role."

And that's what differentiates the top teams from us also rans

Wow! Hardly a ringing endorsement for him. One to avoid methinks.

Can't deny he improved Salford's attack, look at them without him.

I'd probably take him as an attacking coach, but I'd take anyone as an attacking coach right now.

No thanks, the bloke is an idiot.

He'd be a terrible influence on the youngsters at the club.

His book was a good read though

FFS we are 80 mins away from Wembley

comedy gold

He wants to return to Salford.

One name we were looking at, Was Adrian Lam, Who hasn't been mentioned on here yet. You could always just go back for John Kear, Least he won you something.

Bring Justin Morgan back to Hull. At least he can instill passion in his players and that's severely lacking at the moment. Morgan could start now as he's only working with Anderson at the refs gig. His family are still here as his girls are in school here. He'd have to move from East Hull though. Image the uproar there! Imagine Hudgell!!!! Morgan could do great things with a full purse......

It's ok people saying dont appoint an assistant , but rugbys not like football were there's loads of coaches / managers out of work and u can just have your pick . I do think that's why most teams go down that track though . It's either that or someone who as been sacked as when was the last time a coach left to go to another team while been under contract In sl .I posted it in jest earlier , but I could see us going for McNamara . If it wasn't him , someone in the championship or an assistant from the nrl .

Maybe cutting out the knock ons and penalties would also be an improvement.

Let's hope Paea hasn't got a release clause if we change the coach.

Problem is the top coaches in Oz are used to a high standard of player and coach accordingly. You can't simply bring that over here and expect our less skilled and less bright players to respond. I'd have thought coaching Australia would be a darn sight easier than coaching , say , Salford.

Anychance Fergie could coach Rugby League??

That's a Good point , But a double edge sword imo. Our game once frightened the Aussies with it's open flowing rugby , But then we got the influx of Aussie coaches who's philosophy was defence & field position . Boot on the other foot now .

WAs Arthur Bunting an Aussie?

Because his coaching invariably ed around "stop them scoring an the worst you can expect is a nil-nil draw"

It would certainly make it easier for him to get out of his contract than you are now

What?

Why is everyone pretending there aren't loads of top first team coaches waiting for a job? Brian Smith with Rohan Smith as assistant please!

My view on it is that individual players may have the odd bad game or go through a bad patch but when you have a group of players consistently underperforming then it's down to the manager/coach of that group of players.

I've said it many times, but the measure of a good coach is that he consistently gets the players performing near their best and gentle has done that precious few times in the near 2 seasons he's been in charge

Why?

There is a British coach who can motivate a team that started badly last year (and this year for that matter) to put a run together and surge into the playoffs.

Step forward Richard Agar