Pure BS!!

Maguire has been great and Wigan are nowhere near anti-rugby league.

I agree totally with the above comment, what a load of rubbish maguire has brought great things to wigan and rugby league. The game has changed and for just one example wigan through 3 x balls from right to left in a near perfect fashion with other teams like warrington have adopted and used to great effect this year using brett hodgson to great effect just like wigan do with sam

A young up and coming coach in Australia given the opportunity to cut his teeth in the UK with the worlds biggest club. Makes no signings takes them to league leaders and a grand final win in his first year. Then comes a narrow loss to St George in the world club challenge, then he guides them to a CC final win (best team in the comp by far). Then he coaches a team to second spot (only 4 losses in weekly rounds) for them to lose narrowly in the semi final. He's now heading back to Oz to coach probably the most historic team in the NRL.

He's never moaned about our game, player or team, and comes across very proffesional in his approach to the game.

British RL fans are fickle.

You'd do well to watch Wigan when they have the ball and not just focus on what we do without it.

Some sublime rugby has been on show from Wigan this and last season.

Quite surprised by that to be honest given you've got children of your's playing the game. How would you like it if one of them was 'tackled' like Dixon was by Lima in a deliberate attempt to ruin his knee joint?

You see Saddo, just because you like to repeat yourself in trying to convince us all it was a pre-meditated and deliberate attempt to maim/cripple/kill, doesn't make it true.

So you think all the people complaining about Melbourne's and Wigan's 'technique' this season are lying?

Neither club won their respective competitions so it's not like you can throw the jealous angle in.

No. I've never said they were lying, nor have I condoned any of the tackles.

You're insinuating that Wigan, through their coach or players are deliberately attempting to severely injure other players.

That's the word I take issue with.

It's a known technique that came from Melbourne. It's called the cannonball tackle and caused a lot of controversy when a 16 year old lost his career to it. The links to the Storm are there.

I'm sure when they are coaching it they talk about dominating the ruck and the intention may well be to put the player on their back. But it is such a dangerous technique that it could easily end a player's career. Which is why Potter said

and Tony Smith said

All season there have been rumours posted about how Wigan coaches have been heard instructing players to stop holding back and start 'snapping the pole'. It's undeniable what those sorts of techniques will result in if they keep doing it.

it may not have been pre-meditated, it may not have been an attempt to main/cripple/kill but it was deliberate, it lacked class, and it was a cowardly act from a player who has form for doing it. Jeff Lima has epitomized the Mike Maguire way and im glad to see the back of it.

Hopefully Wigan will focus on this great fluid attack the apparently have and can let the ankle twisting, knee attacking, penalty milking, cowardly lion impression they have shown in the past couple of years go.

Its barely begun, Wane will only try and continue to build on the great work by Maguire at Wigan.

Wigan have a few problems for next season, poor tacking technique is certainly not on the agenda thats for sure.

wigan are prob the best organised team i have seen for years. everyone knows there place and job and they have been a bloody good side. there is no doubt lima, who i really rate as a go forward prop, does have a questionable 'tackling' technique and i'm not sure how he has escaped lengthy bans.
also with hoffman and coley gone players will be be able to keep there heads on there shoulders again.

but really the fault lies with the spineless RFL. if they clamped down and hammered players, from all teams not just wigan, then deliberate foul play would stop almost overnight

The worlds biggest club that managed the smallest gate off the playoffs (6790), massive club..... no really.

Who are you Mr Dumb or Mr Dumber..........................We've played your lot 6 times this season and I've seen enough of your lot executing tackles to injure. Speaking to some of the parents at St Judes last weekend even they are concerned about the technique and don,t want it creeping into the young amateur game.

Its a pity Lima isn't going back to Oz with Hoffman and McGuire before he cripples someone out of the game, at least Coley has retired before he does any more head damage....................Why are Wigoons so DUMB and DUMBER.