While having Edwards at the club could be a great thing, he should only be here if he thinks it's the right thing. Let him think it through, if it's Union money V's old team pride (it's not going to be the cash). He has to decide what's right for him.

There's nothing Lenagan can really do here.

So the club lied to/misled the fans and Lenegan doesn’t have the guts to say sorry or apologise. I’ve lost all respect for him (and I had lots). That’s before we even get to the incompetence and what I think of Edwards. Brexit is going better than this.

The one thing im bothered about at the moment, above all others, is that the EuroTrash brexit special on the 29th might be cancelled!!!

Did they lie or was they guilty of trusting a Wigan legend who looked as on board with this as they did?
For me we have been played. It stinks of the ego that made Edwards a great player but at an awkward person. I can imagine this playing out because of that same ego when he wasn't offered the no1 spot with Wales when Garland said he was leaving. Very sad lets not forget Edwards sat in front of the press with our crest on his chest, telling the world how he would not leave Wales early because if his integrity...
"A man of his word!"
Hindsight ...naive? ..stupid even? But who would have imagined Edwards treating the club,fans and town with such disrespect.

The club said he signed a three year contract. He didn't. They lied.

Had he signed we wouldn't be in this mess.

Give him till midnight Sunday then pull the plug if we have to give him time . Personally I would pull it now as he has had nine months to weigh up his options (6 nations lasts 2 months) . His heart does not seem to be here so if we are not first choice then goodnight.

Regards EW

Apologies for quoting myself. My thoughts are still the same and have been confirmed now, IL has shown faith in Edwards apparent commitment to coaching Wigan. I guess he thought that after all this time away, to make the decision to come back, he would have been 100% committed and felt comfortable with a handshake.

Clearly IL has been left to look like a prize clown. While it's easy to state the obvious about him not actually signing, it's Edwards that has created all this, because his stock has risen. Even had he signed, there would have been union people with money sniffing around.

I'm not going to spit my dummy and say I don't want him to come, I do. What I want more though is a quick resolution, so whoever the coach is can start to plan for next year.

Spot on ive always wanted to see Edwards coach Wigan maybe he will maybe he never will just needs sorting and quick

I kind of agree with both sides here. The club lied to the fans, they said he signed a 3 year deal when he hadn’t. Perhaps it would have been more sensible to say he has agreed to sign a 3 year deal once Wales’ involvement in the RUWC has finished.

That said, IL & KR have taken a club legend and someone they know personally at his word. A person who is clearly now having second thoughts. He’d be having the same thoughts if he had signed a contract.

I don’t see the point in having a coach who’s not sure he wants to be here, it’s time to move on. Either give Lam (if he wants it) & the team some stability and give him a 2 year extension and the chance to develop a squad to suit his style of play or start the search for a replacement ASAP.

I thought today’s statement was professional and dignified, they must be fuming behind the scenes. Although disappointed with them I still believe IL & KR are the right people to take the club forward.

I'm sorry but not trolling here but you are comparing rugby union standards to the NRL and not what super league has become. I know rubbish players getting paid or free beers at terrible levels in union. Yet league teams especially at amateur level take a hell of a lot from their players wages, which are more often than not great. Just think the analogy is wrong

I agree with everything up until the last paragraph. Edwards has made IL, KR and more importantly Wigan and RL look like a total amateur bunch of nobs, Rugby Union must be wetting themselves laughing at us.
For me he obviously doesn,t have coming home top of his list of priorities,so as such IL should stop being dictated to by the egotistical little sh**house, withdraw the offer and lets go our seperate ways. Who is to say that a few months into his first season somebody from Union might not knock on his door and waft a wad under his mercenary nose and off he goes leaving us in the cack again. I would no longer trust the guy as far as I could throw him.