Exactly.

When Nobble took us over we were bottom of the league. Poor at times weve been under him, weve been nowhere near as bad as we were when Milward was in charge.

I do agree that we all have something to bring to the forums i do feel though that in some cases saying nothing would be better.

I would hardly call it a momumentous achievement what Noble did in 2006. We were in a situation where anyone would do and just the idea of having a new coach lifted the squad. It tends to be the case when most clubs get new coaches.

But from 2006 we have gone backwards. A simple statistic (I think someone has already done this on another thread) is the amount of games we have won each season. We have gone backwards. I think this year it is something like 37%. Can we honestly say that over three years that Noble has been here we have improved each week/month/year?

Just look at his team selection on Friday. He claims players will get in on merit - well then explain why Sam Tomkins goes from being a match winner one week to being the 18th man the other? in place of Mark Riddell? Apart from one run he made all game - What else did he do? Tomkins is a match winner - he proved that against Wakefield - we could have done with him on Friday.

we ALL was nt cause i was nt bigging noble up last week on here so its not ALL i have an will think he is a disgrace for dropping ainscough an now tomkins

but alls you get on here is ainscough defence is rubbish blah blah an he was resting sam good on him ppl was saying on here sam comes off every game not looking like he s been in 1


THEN we get beat an all the "should he of dropped sam"

so for me nobles dropped a b@llock dropping these kids who have pulled us out of the sh@t when was awfull

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your not wrong there

Noble saved us from relegation, and got us stable again.
Saying he has taken us backwards is ridiculous.

Anyone remember the Millward era? Signing a fullback or rumoured to be signing him, but he could only play 3 days a week at nights because of his religion? That was the Millward era - so taking us back before that is a little difficult!

Loozers?

Put sky text and go to page 330 and select league tables.

You will then see saints top of the table.

If you you then press the page down to page 2 on sky text were you will find wigan!

Sorry but check your info before MOWTHIN off loser.

Why would the roosters want noble when he can't get a rich wigan team who have money to burn into the top 8 midway thru the season?

Not a clue that is why I doubt the story altogether.

Now that Bradford have lost to Celtic - Noble to Bradford would make more sense.

Want me to remove that hook?

For a short sweet answer imo yes.

It may well be a very simplistic way to look at it but our team/squad now would beat our squad two seasons ago with players like Millard, Withers, Calderwood, Higham, DV & Tickle playing then.

Compare what we had to what we have now and players like Lockers, Hock, Tommy, Prescott, Joel Tomkins, Mcilorum, Richards, Feka are all better than they were two seasons ago. We have improved if you look at it like that but we’ve been hit hard/unlucky by the loss of Trent and also Fielden not living up to or fulfilling the role in the team he was signed to do.

Add to that new players like Gleeson & Carmont are better than what we had and even Roberts is better than Calders and Colbon.

We have moved forward as a club but the problem is we’ve not moved forward as quickly as other teams like Leeds, Castleford, Hull KR & Catalan have which has in some ways nullified the progress we’ve made.

Noble isn’t the guy to take us any further than we already are and it’s time to get a coach that can be one step ahead of the game instead of one step behind it.

But to say we haven’t improved under him is wrong.

I still think we are a HB like Dobbo and a prop like Petro away from being right back up there.

Well you were

Anyway you should count yourself lucky there's no relegation because when your old timers leave, you will be down the bottom with Celtic.

Spot on, though the only thing I'd question was whether Noble or the guy who kicked us all over the park on Friday night, young Mr Dobson, was the driving force behind us staying up. Personally I've always been of the view that us staying up had more to do with Dobbo rather than BN. Any vaguely competent coach could have kept us up with Dobbo on that form.

No. We av plaid u 2 time this seazun, an av beat your butt on 2 occashuns. First time, u got ded luki. Secund, we kickt ur butt ded gud.

We is kool, u is naf. Deel wiv it.

Also, Wigin iz sunnyer than Stain, un our birds iz fitter.