Heard whispers from a very reliable source last week that Nobby was ringing all and sundry across rugby league to try and get a team together for next season.

After his multi-media protestations of not being involved in any conspiracy / consortium etc I chose not to give these rumours any credence.

However given what has come to the fore today re his consultancy role to Guilfoyle I am inclined to change my mind.

On a similar note has anyone read Shane Warne's comments in RLW re Nobby? Scathing.

Am I missing something? why would a cricketer be commenting in RLW?.

What's the jist of them?

Oops meant Shaun Wane - malapropism!

More of a spoonerism really.

I haven't read Shaun Wane's comments, but he's got some way to go before his achievements stack up against Nobby's. I'll be interested to see how Wigan go after their half backs have left and they sufffer a bit of adversity. At the moment Wane's still riding on the back of what Maguire did.

I'm parpahrasing from memory as I don't have the article with me, but basically that it was disrespectful to jump into a colleagues shoes so quickly and that he must have had his reasons for doing so.



What's the "ism" when you confuse your spooners with your malaprops then

HLL1969ism.

All of it.


Yes but there ain't a cat in hell's that the new lot have anything remotely like that in mind.


Well, yes, and that's why it's not on any agenda

No, it wouldn't. The uses to which it is put might. I did ask elsewhere when somebody put that they thought it was "underused" as a resource, what they meant; does anybody know how much it is used? I haven't any reason to think that the Bulls marketing have been failing to seize the day. Of course, Akbar & Co. could indeed have a more intensive plan to use the Coral Stand that would bring in much more money, but I don't think it necessarily follows. I mean, we were even on the Prime Minister's radar when they had the secret meeting up there, so marketing can't exactly have been doing that bad a job.

If I were a business consortium with a £1.25m budget for new corporate entertainment facilities then I think I could do better than spend that on a sublease at Odsal.


Based on what? The new owners settling for a team which is crap?


I'm not sure I follow that. Surely any incoming new tenant, given they would either be a tenant, would want to keep everything on-site with a view to maximising use of the site? Would using the Coral Stand for hospitality in an otherwise defunct stadium be sensible? Or have I misunderstood your meaning?

Well, there were plenty on here who were making more or less the same point

This is all fitting too nicely with what was rumoured to be Caisley's intension when he first had the T&A publishing information.

If Noble was so innocent why after Potter came back and his "re-think" is he now advising? Personally, I wasn't too convinced by his statement at the time but I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Now, I think that statement was engineered, some good spin to get the fans with him. Potter has publically offered his services to assist in anyway yet Nobby is the one talking to investors?? What we won under him was great, it was our glory years but this shouldn't be influenced by that. I think it is disgusting he is getting involved when Potter has said he will help. They want the youngsters to stay, well they might find without Potter it will be hard to convince them especially when the players have quite clearly demonstrated their loyalty to him over Nobby.

I can't help but now think that Nobby has been involved from the start and that the plan of Tasker, Nobby and Coulby managing for Caisley is ultimately what Akbars is a front for. I hope it isn't true, but something just doesn't feel right at the moment.

Re Shane Wa(r)ne - Well spooners are Googlies & malaprops are Doosras