Thanks a lot Ian Lenegan what do we get this time another Aussie coach perhaps your decision will baffle me forever

What cheap shots?

Are these fans that are so passionately getting behind Brian Noble the same fans that called for his head three weeks into the season? If you are then you are two faced.

I was one of them fans calling for his head and I stand by it.

I like what I see regarding IL when I go to the fans forum. I, along with other fans on this forum, don't know what he is really like and we can only judge him on what happens at Wigan rugby.
I'm pleased that he wants to bring our youth through to the first team and I'm also pleased that he has let Noble go because I don't like this flat rugby we played. At Saints our players gave their fans lots of ammunition with our many forward passes. Lucky the ref ignored them. Just watched Storm v Eels and neither of them played a flat attack.
IL will have made mistakes as we all do but overall I'm satisfied.

im really looking forward to the next fans forum...


will you be making an appearance??if so i cant wait to hear you confront IFL with all these issue's you have with him or are you just another muppet who slates him on here, gets rather personal and hides behind the safety of their computer screen??

I wonder if RLFANS had existed back in the mid-eighties whether we would have had the same vitriolic postings following the announcement of the departure of Colin Clarke and Alan McInness? (Who'd just won the cup final BTW)!! Back then it took a brave decision by our chairman who knew that the 'right man' could lift Wigan to new levels.

Could history repeat itself here?

To quote Kevin Keegan......'I'd love it, love it for us to win some silverware under our new coach'.

I suggest someone bookmarks these threads, so we can look back on them in 12 months....!!!

Clarke & McInnes actually did another season after winning the cup IIRC.

Overall I think IL has done a very good job.
The finances are on the right path and he's stregthened an already excellent marketing team with Mick Hogan.
I just can't understand what he going on about by saying that's five semis and the squad is better than that.
No they are not!!!!!!!
That's why we've been in five and lost the lot!
The squad needs strengthening. We need bulk in the pack, that's where Saints won it yesterday. Up the middle. We can't go up the middle as the front row isn't strong enough! We need signings in the front row and have needed them for two years prior to IL buying the place.
Noble took over a relegation team and made them into a semi finals team by 2007 when IL took over. Since then we haven't improved.
Noble wanted to sign players and IL wouldn't so who's responsible for us standing still as a semi finals team?
Not Noble I don't think!
We need far more than a new coach if we are to win things.
A bigger (by size) and better squad for starters!

You're a keyboard warrior tosspost. You don't know the guy but you can't stand him - and you're not embarrassed to rant in public about it.

I don't need to say any more, because that says all anyone needs to know about both your intellect and your personality.

From this point on, your views don't count (not that they ever did).

how do you know hes a keyboard warrior?

you dont know this guy buy you call him?......pot kettle black etc

Like him or dislike him I would still rather have him as our chairman than that old fart Whelan to still be involved.

One thing I can say for IL as he has the best interests of the club at heart at the end of the day he is a fan just like us whether this is a good or bad thing remains to be seen.

The only thing we as fans can question Lenagan about is the quality of signings. Pryce/Mathers...I can see the logic behind these signings and I know the purse strings are tight but surely give a youth a chance before signing players like these two.

Phelps has been a top signing but I thought Noble got lucky there. In his last game for Canterbury he had a stormer at full back so why did it take Noble over a year to play him there? Especially when we had Mathers!!!

Riddell and Roberts - below average! Not poor but certaintly not good!

Gleeson - OK, give us more consistancy, made us more solid but thats about it.

Once we get Fielden off his stupid contract Lenegan really has to pull some top quality signings out of his not so magic hat IMO.