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I would think Madge would honour his 3 year contract. He doesnt strike me as the sort of bloke who would say "ah look I have had a better offer from Oz".

I thought it was two years with another one year option.

Should we be concerned about this? Personally I dont think madge will want to in anywhere and will want to finish the job he started until waney is ready to take over

Rogues not according to this [urlhttp://wiganrl.com/WContent.aspx?id=102[/url

Cheers,
I thought I had read it somewhere, I must be mistaken.

Made doesn't come across as the kind of bloke that would screw us over

Abit worrying this thread i think we have to see how he goes this year the offer him a bumper deal for 4 yrs then waney will take over if not im sure faz or edwards wouldnt mind the job

Get used to it.

Its pretty obvious that Madge is going to get linked with just about every job going back in Oz.

He will see out his contract with Wigan but we may have a fight on our hands to keep him longer than that.

Lets face it Madge is seen as the next big thing.

He was already highly regarded in the NRL before he moved to Wigan and now with his success here I’m sure he’s held in an even higher regard. If you were the chairman of an NRL club you'd be crazy not to at least enquire about Madge. Look at what the guy has going for him;

He’s a fully trained teacher which is a skill many people overlook but his ability to teach the players new things or pass info on a concise and effective way is what makes guys who weren’t great players but students of the game good coaches.

His first role was as a strength and conditioning coach so has a good grounding in not only tactics, coaching methods but fitness based coaching as well.

He served an apprenticeship at one of the NRL’s premier teams. Whilst at the storm he was working closely with world class players and under one of the best coaches in the game. He even took control over the first team duties whist Bellamy was on SOO duty.

In his first ever head coaching role he’s turned a bunch of serial underachievers into SL Champions and is one game off making them World Champions.

He knows what it takes to win trophies and work in pressure environments.

But most importantly, imo, he’s done all this with little fuss or drama. It’s the measure of the man that he didn’t have to make wholesale changes to achieve his goals at Wigan. Everything good we’ve done this season has been based on a strong work ethic, team spirit and dedication to the cause. Madge has handled himself with the up most dignity and although there is a list as long as my arm of coaches who have taken pot shots at his team or tactics I’m struggling to think of a time he's risen to it?

The guy is a class act

Excellant post sir.