Just a point about Wane, now he is England coach, be very interesting to see if he rates any Wires players, by picking them in his squads.

Might just be small talk but I was told the club are looking at Mike Forshaw who is a coach at Sale Sharks. Also Ben Walker has been mentioned. The club will not bin Price off until a replacement has been signed. As for Hendo and Briers if this two had any say in coaching matters the club might be in better shape

Compared with who we've got coaching us a the moment, I'd rather take Wayne and Waynetta Slob

Fitzpatrick "Wayne. Its 09:30. Isn't it time you started the training session?"
Wayne Slob "I'M SMOKING A FAAAAAG"

I think people would quickly get over a dull and predictable style of play if it was bringing in trophies.

A number of Pie followers were not that enamoured by Wane's trophy winning style of play.

Well to be fair to Wigan theyve won enough titles to want any more to be won via a decent style. Whereas we would quite happily take a GF win if it meant winning the majority of our remaining games 4-0.

Spot on you can see it with our trips to Wembley apart from perhaps v Saints it's becoming more usual than not and taken for granted in some quarters

I like Wane a lot but I also think this is true.

His success at Wigan might well have been the product of a whole system and positive culture, of which he was part, which created a team of winners, rather than Wane being an individual that drove it all.

On the field you could say O'Loughlin was a similar influence but if we signed him you wouldn't expect us to be instantly Grand Final contenders.

By all means bring Wane in but I think we'd need to bring a lot more features of the Wigan model in to the club too.

The other question that would be interesting to hear is why did he leave ? From all accounts he wanted to remain at Wigan, and of course he didn't leave because he was lured away by an offer 'he couldn't refuse'. Unless he had issues with his private life that would suggest he was pushed out by IL.

Agree with this to a point. For a first GF win forget the extravagance of a 4-0, I would settle for a 1-0 DG from Sita at OT

Hardaker signing?

No. He confirmed he was a big Hardaker fan and was looking forward to working with him.

It’s a bit of guesswork but I think he’d become frustrated at a lack of control over the ins and outs of players, with Radlinski and Lenagan calling the shots. I don’t think he was happy about Sam Tomkins leaving, after accepting them moving McIlorum on the year before. Add in Bateman and Sutton moving on and replacements coming in from the championship for these players like Sammut and Bullock and I think he’d had enough. Lenagan did speak at a fans forum saying we wanted to change our style of play also, so if they asked Wane to do that, whilst losing his two best players, you can understand the frustration.

Weirdly since he left we’ve started spending again. He’d love this squad to work with I’m sure.

4500 lost fans over his reign don’t seem to agree. They went down from over 16000 to less than 12000.