: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:42 pm  

tbh ive been thinking this for a while.......it seems that leneghan is not willing just to pay noble off and splash the cash on a new coach this season, which tbh IMO I cant critisise too much...... as although he may not be doing what everyone is crying for, he is striving to run the club sensibly as a business, which is actually greatly beneficial for us as a club and our long term future.

However, what my thinking is, is sack nobby, promote Wane to Head Coach on his current salary, (as an opportunity to make a name and if he is good enough, secure a FT vastly increased head coach contract in 2010). In doing that Wigan and Leneghan wouldnt be out of pocket....we will have to pay nobbys salary to the end of the year either which way, but in taking this option, there is no further expenditure (ie on bringing someone in), and we get a chance of making a fresh start, improving the dressing room situation, and giving one of wigans own the chance, providing he is good enough this yr, to take us forward as our next head coach (as greg would have done but for his illness).

As a club we cant really lose......wain is either not up to it, and we continue with a poor season and have to write it off (as we will have to if we continue with parker anyway) and then we bring in a W/C coach, OR Wane proves himself as a class coach and we therefore offer him the job F/T in 2010.

We cant lose IMO.

Nobby out.....Wane as Caretaker Coach til the end of the season.

: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:44 pm  

andyed-wiganrl wrote:

tbh ive been thinking this for a while.......it seems that leneghan is not willing just to pay noble off and splash the cash on a new coach this season, which tbh IMO I cant critisise too much...... as although he may not be doing what everyone is crying for, he is striving to run the club sensibly as a business, which is actually greatly beneficial for us as a club and our long term future.

However, what my thinking is, is sack nobby, promote Wane to Head Coach on his current salary, (as an opportunity to make a name and if he is good enough, secure a FT vastly increased head coach contract in 2010). In doing that Wigan and Leneghan wouldnt be out of pocket....we will have to pay nobbys salary to the end of the year either which way, but in taking this option, there is no further expenditure (ie on bringing someone in), and we get a chance of making a fresh start, improving the dressing room situation, and giving one of wigans own the chance, providing he is good enough this yr, to take us forward as our next head coach (as greg would have done but for his illness).

As a club we cant really lose......wain is either not up to it, and we continue with a poor season and have to write it off (as we will have to if we continue with parker anyway) and then we bring in a W/C coach, OR Wane proves himself as a class coach and we therefore offer him the job F/T in 2010.

We cant lose IMO.

Nobby out.....Wane as Caretaker Coach til the end of the season.

If I was Wane I would bide me time coaching the reserves for one or two more years or assistant coach at a push, he needs more time to learn his trade.

: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:46 pm  

Bring back Raper. He was close to something special.

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:19 am  

Well Wigan aren't progressing at the moment, they have got to come together and get their form right!

At the minute as i said in this opening post, they seem 2 win 2 and lose 2 or win 1 and lose 1.

They have got off to a terrible start this season! and have been patchy since.

Again like i said in my opening post would sacking the coach change anything?

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:45 am  

Bilko wrote:

Not got the coaching experience though.

Why not? Assistant at NRL club, international coach and a long playing career to pickup skills.

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:47 am  

AJ wrote:

Bring back Raper. He was close to something special.

My preferred choice!

[Pemps]

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:04 am  

Shaun Wane is part time at Wigan and from my understanding he has a decent job so he may not want to take a full time role at Wigan. Besides, no one can spell his name properly

I'd like Mal Meninga just to watch the Saints forum go into melt down.

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:08 am  

So we have a reserve team coach who's part time? Doesn't that just about sum up the entire situation?

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:09 am  

jonh wrote:

Wane may well be the lad

I really cannot understand this at all. As much as I respect the work he has done, and continues to do, he has no exdperience at all of the full time running of a RL club.

[Pemps]

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:10 am  

endoman wrote:

So we have a reserve team coach who's part time? Doesn't that just about sum up the entire situation?

Is it a full time role though? Most of the lads are at college so they can't train during the day so he'd be sitting around twiddling his thumbs.