I am made up with the way this season has gone and think the appointment of Madge and not forgetting his sidekick Shaun Wane is a master stroke . you can't start slagging Nobby off though lets face it he didn't do a bad job really did he ? saved from a possible relegation and then play off semis is not bad going and what you have got to remember the side now is more or lees the side that Nobby left behind + deacon . yes madge and Wane may have given them that extra cutting edge they need but the Team are another year older and mature too .lets hope Wigan can go that step further at OT next week . COME ON WIGAN

Noble put a lot of work into improving the youth system at the club i.e. the Accelerate train-on squad.

His coaching and the players he brought in kept us up in 2006. That's more than enough for me and I'll always be grateful to him for that.

Here we go again.

Overhauling every level of the club, getting Orrell put in place, improving the depth and experience of a squad to aid the development of the likes of Sam Tomkins. All our young players look up to the likes of Phil Bailey. Yeah, Madge has improved the fitness side of things and changed the culture, but to pretend that Noble didnt build some very solid foundations, is frankly idiotic.

I reckon Noble would have liked to play against similarly weakened Leeds teams at that stage in recent years . . .

No question MM is an improvement on Noble though.

We couldn't even beat Catalans in semis under Noble.

like many coach's noble tried to do his best whilst at wigan, it didn't work out how the fans wanted it to and i doubt it worked out the way noble wanted it to.
what i now find strange is that as the season progressed and the team was playing far better than previous years, noble has never been asked " How come you couldn't get them to play like this, Brian? "