Okay.

"We haven't renewed our coach's contract. But we haven't got anyone else lined up."

Given the ability of certain folk on here and in the press to have an absolute field-day even when Wigan do and/or say nothing, I'd imagine a statement like that would signal the apocalypse.

Why would he look like a prat? It would put everyone in the picture. As it stands now he looks like an even bigger prat as the people he is trying to sell the Wigan RL brand to have no idea who the coach is next year or if we even have a coach for next year.

If your scenario is true then all he needed to do is come out and say 'Brian Noble will be leaving at the end of the season and we are in negotiations with candidates for the head coach position, an announcement will be made as soon as possible'.

Infact IMO theres only one reason for him not to come out and tell us that and that reason is that he has b@llsed the situation up.

All you've really done here is prove my previous point. You don't know anything - so the Wigan chairman is a prat.

Good one.

Please explain why i dont know anything?

All that you have done is proven that when your opinion is questioned you will throw your toys out of the pram and come back with a surly reply as above.

I thought the Mecca Bingo sponsorship was for a year with a 1 year option from both sides?

Is this not the case or have one of the two parties said no thanks to next year?


As for this 'IL should be telling us because we have a right to know as we, by going to games, finance the club'; that is laughable.

IL made his fortune himself with no help from hand outs, clearly he is a shrewd business man who knows exactly what he is doing.

There is not a single decent business man out there in any line of work who tells people anything unless he needs to. This coaching situation is clearly beneficial to the club to not be confirmed.

Using deduction, the situation has not been clarified because there is nothing to tell therefore any announcement would create more unrest than silience is (which is upsetting a few).


Noble is porbably going and therefore IL has not said anything to upset the momentum we have going or because the incoming coach is still under contract with another club, therefore something like a non-disclosure agreement has been signed until both clubs are happy with the timing.

Quite frankly IL has to keep quiet even if a few fans seem to think they are entitled to know the finer workings of something when it would be detrimental to the Wigan business and probably a n other (not to mention lowering the good name of Wigan RL).

I mean do you think ICI, Tesco's and all other big concerns doll out information because their staff think they should or when it is correct for the business?

So he says that and gets moaned at because everyone knows he's really saying this

Ultimatly until IL can annouce something positive on the matter, then it is better to not announce at all, because we would all know what he is really saying, and he would 'look a prat'.

Because you're the one complaining that he's keeping you in the dark.

As a fan I believe we shouldn't be kept in the dark, at the end of the day without fans there would be no club.

IL is the big man , he doesnt have to justify himself to us - he has to trust his own judgement on this issue , ignore the masses n back him/sack him.

I'm 99% sure Noble is off to Celtic Crusaders.
My money is on McGuire to replace him, but he hasn't coached first grade, which you now need to have done.
I think the club will apply for special dispensation ie John Dixon.

What do you mean when you say special dispensation?

Not sure what Celtic's reasoning was, but it worked.

So if Noble is off and IL tells us this week, do you not think this will be counter productive to the team for the run in to the finals?

If Noble is not staying the sensible thing to do is keep quiet until the Wigan season runs it's course.

Even if he does tell us (and i hope he doesn't) people will then say 'well now tell me who is replacing him' and chances are that person coming in is under contract. Therefore we will destabilise the team and peope like you will still not be happy because you don't know the replacement.

To sum it all up, surely if he could tell us he would!!!

Disagree completely, announcing anything regarding the coaching position within the last 8 weeks would have been detrimental to the team, UNLESS he was staying, in which case it would have been announced ages ago.

I think that everyone who needs to know will already know, and thats the way it should be. Fairly enough as fans we want to know whats going on, but thats not how clubs are run in reality.

Its different from what St Helens did with Anderson last year, he was a massively successful coach who announced that he was going back to Aus, in which case it would only have been beneficial to the team and club and fans to give him a big send off. With Noble though, a lot of fans would be happy to already see him gone, changing the situation completely.

As long as something re: coach and signings is announced as soon as we are knocked out of the playoffs, absolutely fine by me.