The Whiffy Kipper wrote:
Think about it
Tbf I do think that Noble doesn't get as much credit as he deserves.
His appointment stopped the rot and whilst he took us as far as he could, he potentially started the mentality thing. If you remember back in the day Noble had a bit of a rep for his teams turning it on at playoffs time. I have no doubt plenty of guys learnt some stuff from that and took it forward into the Madge and Wane era's.
Madge was the main guy tho. He took an good, but underachieving, team and made them into GF winners over the course of one pre season. He introduced a new system in attack and defence and everyone bought into it.