Agree if he does as well as Mike Gregory then happy days are not far away....

It does seem to be that way doesnt it. I hope he can succeed using this strategy, but he only will, if not winning trophies is his goal. You cant run a club on a shoestring.



Which suggests he has been spoken to, but why has he not been approached/offered the job, when on the face of it, he would seem the best candidate from that list. I am stunned there is no higher profile people on the list however.

IL goes to Oz to sign a prop and a half back, signs neither and then decrees the home grown player route is the way to go.

He then looks to sign an NRL coach or assistant coach, fails and then decrees the home grown route for a coach is the way to go.

Is that too cynical a view?

I am sure some will think the home grown player route plus home grown coach will be great but I am sure a lot of fans who aren't as obsessed as the people who use this message board will just think "no star players, no star coach".

If we had one or the other (one or two star players coming in or star coach) I think people would be optimistic but going with the same squad and Wane as coach is a huge gamble.

Dave

Its a view you will get slated for, but is one that is based in fact.



It is, but it is also a cheaper way of doing things..

We are putting the wiganner aspect in at every level of the club.

Owner is a wiganer, the coach will be a wiganer and players will be mainly through the ranks. There will be no shortage of passion.

If true it can go wither way

it could go like Mike Greg or Andy Goodway!!!

IMHO, if (

) Noble leaves, then, to take us to the next level, the replacement needs to be a top line coach with real credentials, recent experience in the top flight and (unfortunately) up to date experience.

A Bennet, Smith, Gould, Anderson (although I don't think anyone with a Saints link should be allowed near the coaching set up (ever!)) would fit this bill. Wane should be then groomed to take over, not simply moved up to fill a gap, the last time that happened we had Betts in charge who simply wasn't ready for the job in hand.

To go from Noble to Wane in this manner is a chronic statement of lack of ambition imho, especially as it appears that it is a case of settling for Wane. Maybe nobody outside Wigan is prepared to take the poison chalice that is Wigan RL

'Wiganer' is good, but IMHO best man for the job should be the order of the day, not best Wiganer for the job.

Same squad, inexperienced coach = ??

Cheaper yes, better financially? Not necessarily. Results could be interesting, fence sitters may not bother with the season tickets if failure looks probable?

Fully agree, although I have no problem with Wane as a number 2 to a top coach for a year or two. Mike Greg had to learn his trade after all as did Nobby.

That's true, but I would sacrifice passion in the head-coach role for NRL expertise.

If Shaun Wane gets the job, I'll give him my full support, as I'm sure all Wigan fans will - I'm pretty sure he'll be regarded the same way Greg was, at least initially - but if it doesn't work out it's going to be yet more criticism for all concerned, because the argument will be that we should have gone for the possibly more expensive option of a highly qualified Aussie.