Effing brilliant news.

Don't Rise to it
There's another on other site called Medlocke who's just the same

So glad we've not got jobs for the boys culture and we have matty peet, Tommy leulia, Sean oloughlin etc in charge with Rads behind the scenes

It’s great news. I look at his late season form and he was absolutely outstanding. When he plays like that I don’t think anybody touches him in terms of being the biggest attacking weapon in the comp. The second half of the Grand Final just showed the fear he puts in to opposition teams, with Catalans at 6’s and 7’s trying to defend that left hand side of ours.

When did we ever build a long lasting team around a top player under Mr Lenagan, top Players where always allowed to leave, Tomkins and Williams to name two, others where allowed to come back a shadow of their former selves, certain players where allowed to dictate when they wanted to stop playing even though they where 2 seasons beyond their sell by dates rather than being told it's game over, It now looks like we are actually building a team that will be around for a good few seasons and long may it last, a lot of fans need to take their tinted spectacles off, It wasn't all biscuits and gravy under Mr Lenagan, during his tenure Leeds and Saints where allowed to gain so much more success than we had.

Lenagan came in for the 2008 season and until the time he handed the club over to Danson this is how Wigan, Saints and Leeds compare-

Grand Final wins
Leeds 6
Saints 5
Wigan 5

Challenge Cup Wins
Wigan 3
Leeds 3
Saints 2

LLS wins
Saints 5
Wigan 4
Leeds 2

WCC Wins
Leeds 2
Wigan 1
Saints 1


In total all 3 clubs have weirdly won 13 each from 2008 until the end of 2023.

It's always funny watching a Jai Field interview - I remember watching his first one and thinking this guy couldnt care less judging by his demeanour. Obviously his performances on the field have shown the exact opposite so appearances can be deceptive.

He's exceptional and to have him and French in their prime years is just fantastic for Wigan and SL. Fans shouldn't take it for granted.

Thanks for replying, I was going to leave Leeds 08/09 out and go from 2010, it look leneghan 2 years to sort the Whelan s**t show years out. In which case we'd be top.
And as for building a team around 1 player, that Lockers fellow wasn't too bad

True and I’d also say that through absolutely no fault of Lenagan we let the 2014 and 2015 Grand Finals slip through our fingers, when we should’ve won both and you could say much the same about 2020. In 2012 it was unfathomable that we didn’t get a trophy on the board also (aside from the LLS). We won 13 trophies under his ownership and I think he’ll be slightly disappointed that it wasn’t around the 16/17 mark.

To say Saints and Leeds had much more success than us in that time is clearly wrong. It feels like we probably shouid be a couple of trophies clear of the pair of them in that time but that was down to the players/coaches on those nights. What Lenagan has done is right us in a fantastic position to make sure that in this next 10-15 years we are more successful than any other team.

You replied earlier and eerily made some of the points I would have made
In this reply your thinking is exactly the same as mine again mentioning the GF's we missed out on through other issues, the 2012 season and missing out in semis in both despite playing some of the best rugby we've seen in 25 years and as you say, and it links to something I said on the Wigan way podcast before the GF this year, we've left 2/3/4 opportunities for GFs out there and not grabbed em in the past when we probably should have, and this years GF I didn't make any other prediction other than "We just need to win". More than anything to just tally up the wins and losses a bit more evenly as I think we deserved.
It must be hard for those that pinned their blame/anger/impatience/opinions IMO in no particular order Lenegan, Rads, Wane, jobs for the boys (i mentioned Peet/lockers and Tommy earlier but ill add Powell amongst others as well) to have to scramble round to justify their previous stance only to see those people and decisions bounce back and go on to prove what great people/administrators/coaches/players etc they have been and some still have a lot to give Wigan and will contribute significantly to future trophies I have no doubt.

To claim that something in the future that hasn't even happened yet i.e a dynasty, and signings for 4 years of Field for example are an example of us changing somehow in the last 2 months or so after Leneghan left, whilst all the rest of the jobs for the boys people are still here, and show no acknowledgement that the signing has all the hallmarks of how well those players signing proves they respect the culture, the club that Lenegham and others created and would possibly not have happened without their management is incredulous and ill treat those comments the way they deserve to be treated, by throwing them in the proverbial bin.

2012 and 2014 are the ones that got away big time. Sam Tomkins got injured at precisely the wrong time in 2012 and we all remember how Ben Flower threw it all away.

We played fantastic rugby in 2012 but fell foul of Sinfield's bombs (especially at Huddersfield in the Challenge Cup semi). 2013 was a lot more dour, and fans were complaining, but then we did the double...