Put it this way; IL has a gentlemans agreement with one of the biggest legends this club has outside of Billy Boston. Club legend shakes hand, has pictures taken and says 'yep, cant wait to take over'. You have to surely take SE at his word? You wouldnt think 'ah yeah hes going to screw Wigan over', are you? Of course you get a contract signed asap afterwards, that is a huge oversight, but lets not kid ourselves here - Edwards is playing us like a banjo and should be castigated by anyone and everyone involved in RL.

He's delivered us half a dozen trophies in the salary cap era. So he'll always be a gooder guy than Whelan or Mo.

Edwards, meanwhile, has lied through his teeth.

IL has done Wigan proud and I believe the supporters of the club are very aware of where we would be without him. He deserves a huge degree of respect and thanks.

Shaun Edwards has done nothing but parade around for a few hours in a Wigan Warriors polo shirt dropping hints about RU players he will bring with him then when Shaun Wane has gone on to be unbeaten since the announcement he has realised he can't top that and would rather stay where he is. Good riddance in my opinion.

Time to get behind the team for the remainder of 2019 and show them they have our support no matter what.

I've watched these developments from the outside has a Hull fan.

I think it is a bit of an insult. There's no comparison. He played a major part in winning those cups with the best team in RL history, even more so his home town club.

Winning the GS is a noteworthy achievement but he wasn't even the head coach. Massive difference.

I'm still staggered why Wigan "appointed" him in the first place. He hasn't been involved never mind coached a RL for 20 years. The game has changed drastically.

I appreciate that he is a Wigan legend but surely there must be better options than Edwards.

Edwards has been regarded with reverence in Wigan ... not just for his playing achievements, but also for the very visible coaching skills he demonstrated in RU. It was always great to see a local RL lad show the rah-rah how to play their own game. Maybe that clouded our judgement a bit. But no one could have realistically expected that he'd pull a stunt like this.

Whatever we think of his abilities, he'll be no one's first choice now (not in league, anyway).

He could be edging bets but I feel it's more likely he just wants out and is making the situation ugly and untenable since Wigan RL returned serve.
Until the holiday response support favoured SE...now that is unprofessional from him....if he'd have said directly to Wigan I'm on holiday and Wigan RL released that, I'd have said negotiations are back on track.

IF as it now looks likely Edwards didn't sign a contract (otherwise why would he say it twice, as it can easily be refuted by the club):

1. Edwards can go and kindly F right off and never come near the club ever again - unforgivable to even think about reneging on a public commitment - signed or not.

2. The club have lied through their teeth to the fans. They should be grovelling to us when the next "statement" comes out, even that shouldn't be enough.

3. The club have been incompetent beyond belief in not getting a signature (IF what Edwards says is true) and that is the basis of the balls up now currently playing out in public.

Everybody involved comes out very badly in all this, Edwards, Lenegan and Radlinski. Edwards won't be near the club, thankfully, and it's the final straw for me with Radlinski, I certainly don't trust him with any future recruitment and the sooner he goes the better.

Hopefully Lenegan won't have the brass neck to ever again talk about how badly the RFL are run, at the moment Wigan RL make the RFL look like Apple Inc.

How does this mess tie in with Wane leaving? Did he jump ship and then Edwards was approached or did he jump because Edwards was approached? Is this a symptom of a much bigger malaise at your club, evidenced by the behaviour of J Tomkins, the signing of ZH, and the release of Bateman and the phantom re signing clause.
This isn't trolling, I am genuinely baffled at the speed with which your club seems to be spiralling out of control.

Rumour CH is he was thanks a lot but we're down 4k in fans since you took over and Joalgate is the driving force to part ways.

Absolute BS.

I listened to the BBC Rl podcast last night and this was the main talking point. Kev Brown was a guest and he said, in his opinion, that Kris Rads is an incredibly honest, trustworthy fella, as I think we all think/thought? KB's thinking was that if KR shook on it then he would expect that deal to happen because it's something he would abide by. I'm inclined to agree with this.
My thinking now is Rads has perhaps been incredibly naive about this and has shown a lack of experience in a business environment.