I sometimes wonder if some of you lot actually watch Wigan. If you have regularly watched Wigan for the past three seasons (not just the play offs) and are happy with the style and standard of rugby and attitude shown in most games under Noble then good luck to you.

You bollocked me so I'm doing the same!

According to IFL.

Yet according to Noble he has never said such a thing.

I did say in nearly all of the most successful teams. Do you not think by bringing a new man in he will have his own coaching methods, which will influence the way the team plays, when they have spent the last 2 or so years getting used to Nobles way? Like i say for me and the majority of successful teams continuity is key. Supposed we will just have to wait and see

well for the first time in an interview with dave woods noble has pretty much said he is leaving. if we get to old trafford and win i wonder if noble could somehow lose his contract from celtic?

If true then there will be too many other considerations for that to happen. He would have to knock back Celtic and presumably we would have to knock back whoever the job has been offered to, assuming it has.

Dave

Why would we want him to?

I've never heard Noble deny it.

If he's now saying he wants more than one year, then fair enough - my second point is disproved. The first, however, stands. It's too early to be using this season as a reason for why we should keep Brian Noble. We haven't won anything yet, and generally our form has been poor-to-average.

Yet Nobby still doesn't seem to realise this. According to an interview I've just seen with him on BBC2, whoever coaches Wigan next season will have a tough act to follow.

To me this indicates that he thinks the current standard is acceptable. That may be a boast he can make if we win the Grand Final, but it's a bit ill-advised at this stage given the many games we've lost that we could and should have won, and which would have meant we'd have been the ones with the week off and might well have been the ones making the Clubcall.

so your saying, if we win the league for the first time in 11 years you would be willing to see the coach who brought us the league leave?

im not nobles biggest fan because of the inconsistancy but if we win the league and he ends up going to celtic i wont be too happy.

Be prepared to be upset then.

You're adopting an unrealistic attitude.

If the deal is already done and the contracts signed, what do you expect the various parties to do?

Yes i will drive him there myself.

I judge him on the last 3 years which as I said have been a transitional period for the club and he has brought us through it, but if we do manage to win the Trophy, i will congratulate him on a job well done a nice way to finish, but sadly the previous 3 years have not been good enough and for that reason I am happy to see him go.

Agreed. It is very difficult to understand where the Noble defenders are coming from.

2006 - Almost relegated
2007 - 2 semi-finals
2008 - 1 semi-final
2009 - 2 semi-finals

HTH.

5 semi-finals - no finals.

HTH

An even more bewildering question is why are some Wigan fans so are easily influenced by the likes of Eddie and Stevo? Every week those muppets ask the question why is Noble leaving, despite having criticised him at length themselves earlier in the year for 'failing to promote Wigan youth', and despite knowing that his departure and replacement must have been sorted out weeks if not months ago, when Wigan didn't even look like making the top eight. They know this full well, yet they mischievously make an issue of it every week. And yet some Wigan fans are apparently swayed by them, believing that replacing a head coach is something you can do over a couple of weeks and then, just as easily if necessary, reverse the process.

I understand the frustration that, just as Noble is leaving, he seems to be getting it right. But I'd ask my fellow Wigan fans to remember that this has happened at the end of almost every year since he took over, and yet we've started the following year with a poor pre-season and subsequent rubbish results up until virtually the end of summer. I'd also ask them not to be influenced by the views of Messrs. Hemmings and Stevenson. They do not have Wigan's best interests at heart. They are a pair of journalists, and poor ones at that, who if they can't get a real story will happily stir one up out of nothing, and if it's at Wigan's expense so much the better.