I think IL is doing a good job.

I do have some concerns though about the way the club is going.

IL said some time ago that we were very short of coaching resorces at the club but other than Kris R cannot think of many other additions since.

I cannot understand why Steve Hampson is not sorting out our fitness.

Also under the salary cap we must gain competitive advantage by having the best management, coaching and fitness conditioning in SL (and NRL). In this respect we are woeful and one change would make a big difference. ILs job is simple, find the best coach who commands the respect of the players (short and long term) and get him.

Well, being fair is always your main priority.

it is obvious that the players have no respect for noble,but in taking that attitude the loyal wigan fans are suffering.with the team we had out yesterday they should have won without a coach.that display was worse that the one against hudds last year.

I've never been agianst noble as coach, up until now.

Last night set me thinking, for 3 seasons we have watched wigan play well one week and then l undue all their work the next week. Some of the rugby we are playing is poor, has been all season apart from saints and a 20 minute spell agianst Salford.

We have an all most entirely new squad compared with when noble took over and we still don't know how to win tight games.

We are desperate for a prop who can instill some fear into the players opposite him.

Even if we bring a new prop in though, even if he exactly fits the bill, will that fix our problems? I don't think so somehow. IL is doing a fantastic job, signing the best players he can with the money available, but I think it's time for a new coach to lead those players. Who is an entirely different question

It will be a good season if we win the Challenge Cup, which is certainly a possibility.

Secondly, getting rid of the coach is not going to get our players to catch the ball or stop giving away penalties. NOble needs to start dropping some of our supposed 'superstars'.

A coach who actually coaches the technical aspects of the game would. Given our failure to improve in this aspect over the last 3 years we can only assume firstly he does not, or if he does he is very poor at it, either way not good enough.

Looking around at our squad, it is more than capable of being top 3.

Realistically, 3rd is the lowest position that we should ever be in.

However - Brian Noble (as has been said before) is a one-"plan" man, and I struggle to call what he sends the team out with a "plan".

Yesterday, we spent half the match with our wingers in the prop positions, looking for work. We had Andy Coley at a couple of points, on the wing, trying to make a break.

The defence got sucked in to centre-field just about every time, leaving us open to the wide attack.

Personally, I wouldn't change much about the squad membership. The players we have are fine (although I'm not saying that an extra, nasty prop wouldn't go amiss).

What we need is someone in charge who can either do, or organise, the following:
Game plan - 5 drives and a kick is not enough. Catch up to every other coach in SL/NRL and stop recycling the Dulls old method
Fitness - get them all up to their peak form
Teamwork - They need to start playing for each other, every week
Defence - Sack Vievers - In the words of Jim, "Defensive Coach - My árse"
Respect - The players need to be made to respect the coach, each other, the ball and most of all, the Wigan tradition/expectation.
And finally, the biggest one:
Motivation - Brian Noble couldn't motivate a lottery winner to go get his money. The guy is useless.

Please Ian, listen to the fans, or if not, just look at Bilko's stats on our win ratio over the Superleague years.

It all points to one thing - Noble is NOT the man for Wigan any more.

We need someone with fresh ideas, motivational skills, a new fitness team/regime and some idea of how a game plan needs to evolve both over the course of a game, and a season.

I would hardly class catching a ball as a 'technical aspect of the game'. If these players need to be coached at this then they should be booted out.

It is easy to attack the coach but it is not his fault they can't catch. Perhaps NOble needs to start dropping more players to drive his point across.

Why exactly? Because we are Wigan? What is special about this squad? It is full of nobodies, or could be greats if they were not mental baskets.

Simply because, when I look honestly at the skills levels of the individuals in our team, it is far higher than the skill levels of most other teams in Superleague.

The trouble is that they only play as individuals (other than the odd, rare game that gives us all false hope. e.g. Saints)

We need someone to mold all of these undoubtedly talented individuals into a cohesive unit. In other words - A team.

I really worry that the coaches are of the same opinion. You constantly need to practice and refine basic skills the Aussies hammer the basic skill drills, rarely do we it seems consider it.

Once a player gets in a first team squad in SL it is assumed they should have all the skill set and it is rarely coached, in the basic form.

Regardless of if you are a GB player or novice at a clubs basic skills must be coached and practised, if they are ignored you get exactly what we see at Wigan most weeks and also what England provided us with in the World Cup.

The Aussies do the little things right, it is no coincidence players from the NRl seem to go backwards when they sign for Wigan as the skills simply are no longer coached and they start to deteriorate.

It's not all the same players from the semi finals. And I'm not impressed that they won one game against saints either. We should be winning a majority of games.

The team is not good enough.