When Karl Harrison was on Sky Supermen he said he couldn't understand why a super league club hadn't been in touch with him with all his experience. He never mentioned ever applying for a vacant coaching job so if he can't be bothered applying what does that say about his motivation. If he doesn't apply leave him where he is, he will be no great loss to the game.

Commercial Team that has 20 years experience at Coca-Cola handling multi-million pound contracts?

We at Salford have heard on the grapevine that noble is set to take over after today's game and bringing in a coaching team of Mike Forshaw (conditioning coach) Dave Lyons and John Pendlebury along with Sean Long who we already have. A wealth of experience there for us, I hope you at cas find the right man for the job.

Gareth Walker on Twitter reckons the Noble deal is done.

Spend full cap, 10-15 players next season, etc.

I'm sure he was a bottle knocker.

On BBC website that Salford have indeed named Noble as coach.