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I would think Madge would honour his 3 year contract. He doesnt strike me as the sort of bloke who would say "ah look I have had a better offer from Oz".

I thought it was two years with another one year option.

Should we be concerned about this? Personally I dont think madge will want to in anywhere and will want to finish the job he started until waney is ready to take over

Rogues not according to this rlhttp://wiganrl.com/WContent.aspx?id

Made doesn't come across as the kind of bloke that would screw us over

Abit worrying this thread i think we have to see how he goes this year the offer him a bumper deal for 4 yrs then waney will take over if not im sure faz or edwards wouldnt mind the job

Get used to it.

Its pretty obvious that Madge is going to get linked with just about every job going back in Oz.

He will see out his contract with Wigan but we may have a fight on our hands to keep him longer than that.

Lets face it Madge is seen as the next big thing.

He was already highly regarded in the NRL before he moved to Wigan and now with his success here I’m sure he’s held in an even higher regard. If you were the chairman of an NRL club you'd be crazy not to at least enquire about Madge. Look at what the guy has going for him;

He’s a fully trained teacher which is a skill many people overlook but his ability to teach the players new things or pass info on a concise and effective way is what makes guys who weren’t great players but students of the game good coaches.

His first role was as a strength and conditioning coach so has a good grounding in not only tactics, coaching methods but fitness based coaching as well.

He served an apprenticeship at one of the NRL’s premier teams. Whilst at the storm he was working closely with world class players and under one of the best coaches in the game. He even took control over the first team duties whist Bellamy was on SOO duty.

In his first ever head coaching role he’s turned a bunch of serial underachievers into SL Champions and is one game off making them World Champions.

He knows what it takes to win trophies and work in pressure environments.

But most importantly, imo, he’s done all this with little fuss or drama. It’s the measure of the man that he didn’t have to make wholesale changes to achieve his goals at Wigan. Everything good we’ve done this season has been based on a strong work ethic, team spirit and dedication to the cause. Madge has handled himself with the up most dignity and although there is a list as long as my arm of coaches who have taken pot shots at his team or tactics I’m struggling to think of a time he's risen to it?

The guy is a class act

Excellant post sir.

Where on Earth do you get this from?

We really should be way past the stage of appointing fondly remembered ex-players who have almost no record of coaching success.

Nothing I've seen or heard about Faz in recent years makes him even close to being qualified to taking up the coaching reins once Madge goes home.

Madge has done such cutting-edge work with the Wigan team that I wouldn't even appoint Edwards to follow him, unless it were in some apprentice capacity.

Faz is the head coach at sarries and edwards at wasps i think and in 5-10 years i wouldnt be suprised to see one of them at wigan in a coaching capacity and it does actually say shaun wane to take over who we have won the 3 under twentys grand finals with.

This was always going to happen to be honest, he's very well thought of in oz and done a great job in turning wigan from nearly men into champs.

We had it with millward and anderson ( NOT POTTER THO ) and hudds have had it with brown.

When aussie coach does well over here they get linked with any job that maybe available.

I've not seen a great deal or know much about maguire but he seems a man of his word and very honest guy. I can't see him leaving before his deal was up unless he has the family problem some overseas get.

You never know, you lot might want him out this year if you can't back up last seasons form