I remember that, it must have been 10 years ago because it was the 2001 season and Warrington were looking for a coach to replace Darryl Van de Velde. Shaun Edwards had a column on Teamtalk and when Iestyn Harris left Leeds for union Edwards who was down in Brisbane at the time said he thought Leeds had signed an even more talented player in Ben Walker....odd how Walker never really kicked on after a bright start. Anyway, I digress...Warrington appointed Neil Kelly as coach then Kelly backtracked when Widnes came up and left us up the swanny. There were some stories in the local papers that we interviewed Shaun Edwards but the club weren't willing to allow him to live down south and commute, they insisted that he moved up north and he wasn't prepared to do that. I later heard from someone (fairly reliable source) that that was untrue and we had never interviewed Edwards so I'm not sure what to believe.

I do remember though our fans being split on the issue of Edwards potentially being our coach. I think most people sensed he would be a good coach because of the type of player he was, he had a reputation as being virtually a coach through his playing days, most Wire fans thought if Edwards turned out to be good he would have done 2 seasons or so with us then gone to Wigan, which is probably true, but I would have still taken him at that time.

I wonder if Shaun's next move, will be to replace Martin Johnson as England supremo in RU.

I seem to recall that Shaun wanted to stay near his young family... I think that was the main reason for him not coming back to RL. Can't really blame him for that. But people will always go for conspiracy theories. If he had gone to Warrington, he probably would have ended up at Wigan, and at a very interesting time. Radlinski refers to Shauns intensity even in training, and alludes to the fact that Shaun did lead many of the training sessions.

And now he works in Wales?

and now his family is not as young.

*Facepalm*

I see.

*chuckle*

Combination of a few would be best - Hanley, Lance Todd, etc

The moment you realised he had Tait.

not so much his family...but his son.

his ex (heather small from Manc) moved down south to further her career....Sean followed...he signed for London Broncos (and played for them at wembley).
He turned down any opportunity he got up north later, to stay near his son.......hes a great dad imo.
his son will now be a young man.

That's the statue for me. Iconic moment of the 8 in a row, he's also a national celebrity who still has a keen interest in the game.

I knew all the details, which is why i said "near". Just did not want to drag it all up in open forum.

It also shows a man who has picked up the ball and run with it, so there can be no confusion with Union...

No far from it. I am just questioning the source. You are saying that you gained this information from a first person account in a local paper? I don't disbeleive it but someone had to play devil's advocate.

I don't dislike edwards (at all) I agree with many he was a good player in a team of stars. However, he is at the bottom of my list of people this statue should be of. They were talking about him yesterday in reference to wales' defense on itv. That is enough for me to against it. It isn't a team thing (I would embrace hanley), it is a sport thing. See my star wars reference on the sts board!

When in a hole... Stop digging.

I'm sure you are sincere in your view, but from here it just looks like you want a reason not to agree based purely on club bias. I would be grateful if you could present a Warrington player with comparable credentials at wembly finals that can compete with Shaun's.............. No thought not.