No its not official but it won't do anything to pour water on growing rumours surrounding the club at the moment.

Aspects of this remind me of when Stuart Raper was being linked with Cronulla, before we knew it he was on a plane back to Australia following a home defeat by Widnes (i think).

Personally i would love to see Shaun Wane be given a chance but it must be for the right reasons and not simply down to his chummy relationship with the players - well thats how it appears from what people regularly say about him.

If performances don't imporve over the next few weeks then who knows what might happen - it would not suprise me to see Madge on his way home far sooner than we think.

www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480 A month ago Maguire said he'd honour his contract, now its 'no comment', hopefully he has no get out clause, for me its too early for Shaun Wane to take over

www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480 A month ago Maguire said he'd honour his contract, now its 'no comment', hopefully he has no get out clause, for me its too early for Shaun Wane to take over

Seem to remember being pilloried fairly recently for having the temerity to suggest he'd be off before the end of his contract provided he got an offer.

Wigan/SL or Sydney/NRL. Hmmm, toughie.

A highly rated young coach like MM was never going to be in SL longer than 2 seasons. You get stale and fall behind over here compared to working day in day out in the NRL.

The end of the month is the latest.

Sorry, I don't follow?

Maybe im being naive but Maguire has always shown a passion for the club, and talked about building a legacy, i wouldn't have thought he'd consider quitting after 16 months in charge.

Can't see him leaving before the end of this season, no chance IMO.

sorry i meant the rumour is that Madge will leave at the end of this month.

(i certanly don't want that to be true but it would not suprise me given the increasing stories about the Souths position).

Nah, can't see it.

Why ... when the latest, according to Souths fans, is that their current coach will only retire when his contract expires in five months' time.

I think we need to accept that Maguire will go at the end of the year. But expecting him to leave mid-season, when Souths don't need him yet and he'd lose out massively in terms of earnings, is a bit less likely.

Couldn't agree more.

MM will see out the season and could very well leave with 2 SL titles, despite the nonsense about him being "found out" that is being hopefully pedalled on the Saints and Wire boards.

I'm sure he'll do very well at Souths too.

Andy Wilson's now chipped in on the rumours...
rlhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/apr/12/wigan-warriors-michael-maguire-south-sydney-rabbitohsrl

Completly agree.

The only possibility (as always) is that theres something we don't know.

Not like him to be delayed in stirring things in relation to Wigan.

Is anyone worried he may be interested in bringing some players over once he goes back. He always goes on about what a brilliant athlete Josh Charnley is and how highly he rates Sean O'Loughlin and Liam Farrell. I just hope he doesn't get any ideas. Thankfully most of our young lads have signed new contracts and those young lads would probably want to make a name for themselves at Wigan first. Just a thought I was thinking with so much money flying around in NRL, contracts could easily be bought out.