Quote: Finfin "Some people on here should stop being so touchy. The game needs all the publicity it can get, I look forward to the day when a British born coach is linked with Aussie vacancies. Maybe Wilson has his favourite club - the game is small and all the media guys have a club that they were linked with and subconciously favour - French (StHelens) Woods (Wigan) Hemmings (Warrington) Sadler (Wakefield).'"
I think the problem is that Andy Wilson - not for the first time - has woven a 'bad news for Wigan' story out of virtually nothing. The difference this time is that it's timed to coincide with our preparation for the biggest match we've had in 17 years.
If he was trying to give the fixture publicity, there are many more positive angles he could have taken.
I don't think anyone at Wigan doubts that Maguire will be going in the near future. He obviously has an ambition to coach in the NRL, and no-one would deny him that. But I can't help wondering if people like Andy Wilson are wishing the guy would pack his bags and go now, because - like Graham Lowe before him - Maguire is another one whose training methods are having a revolutionising effect, and there are lots of stick-in-the-mucks who simply don't like that.
As for the overall publicity thing, yeah, you're bascially right. But I don't think there's much of a connection between Melbourne-trained Mike Maguire attracting interest in the NRL, and some mythical British-born coach doing the same thing. Unfortunately, I feel we're as far from the latter as we ever were.