Another lesson in how to be 'the man most lacking in self-awareness on Planet Earth'.

You would expect a coach to be able to bring his own staff and players in unless agreed otherwise.

It does sound like it could have been managed better, but I'm not convinced it would have worked out anyway given the time he's been out of rugby league

It's certainly a new excuse. Previously it was just 'Wigan won't give me a contract'.

He’s so boring,,,, move on.

It’s still pre season, we need something to talk about until Thursday

It's a rumour that was banded about at the time along with the tax fiddle one. Depends who you want to believe I suppose.

No need for him or the club to drag this up just as the season is about to begin, it serves no purpose at all. Pretty poor form

Six of one and half a dozen of the other as far as I am concerned.

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The club part was just incase they repsond. I know they haven't brought it up to begin with.

There's probably a middle ground tho this, but I can see why SE would be annoyed at not being told about the sale of GW & not being able to bring in his own team.

Both of those seen pretty standard things imo.

I guess it depends on how many current employees (and which ones) would have needed to be sacked in order for him to assemble his own team.

And if he truly didn't know about the sale of GW? I think a lot of people could have told him he was going end of 2019 at the end of 2018
I mean he would also have been pleasantly surprised by the additions of Jackson Hastings/George Burgess etc, but he didn't come did he so irrelevant (Just like his statement IMO)

Also - Did he get it agreed that he could bring in his own Backroom staff when he agreed His contract?
If not then that was silly
If he did then maybe he should have got it agreed in his signed contract instead of relying on a Gentleman's agreement???

Whilst it probably isn't the done thing, coaches in other sports bring in their own backroom staff with them. Imo if Edwards wanted that then I'd say we should have gone for it.

I'd question if it makes more sense to have all the coaches signed up to similar deals i.e everyone on 2 year deals etc.