Edwards wanted to bring in his own fitness coach. “I’d spoken to him, promised him a job, and four months after our first conversation the club still hadn’t rung him up. Then I found out they had sold George Williams, who was going to be a marquee player for the following season. I didn’t find it out from the club, I found it out from a newspaper.”

Does any of you believe this?

Part of me actually does

Easy, it's towing the line with a very nice piece of pro Union and anti League propaganda for The Guardian to serve up to it's readers, as an aperitif to the Six Nations.

That tin foil hat is slipping again pal.

I trust Edwards on this. He may be rough around the edges but he has never been afraid to tell it like it is. Why would he need to lie? The dust has settled on him becoming coach and its not like we refused him the job is it? He refused us so theres no reason for him to be bitter and start making up lies.

Ian Lenaghan can be a good Chairman, but he too can be arrogant at times.

Both as bad as one another in the affair!

1 Edwards agreed to join Wigan

2 Edwards got a better offer

3 Edwards reneged on his verbal offer with Wigan

Everything else is just noise ... end of

There's no reason for him even to raise the subject again, but he has. And at just the right time to cause Wigan more embarrassment.

As to why he would lie, good question ... perhaps you should ask him.

People need to remember that, round Wigan back in the day, Shaun Edwards had a rep for being a bit of a daft lad.

The way he's behaved since that press conference, I'm not sure much has changed.

Did he raise it or was he asked?

I never got the impression he was ever a daft lad. He always came across as a bit rough around the edges and a bit blunt but ive never had any reason to believe he was a liar.

On the other hand, you would be forgiven for questioning the clubs truthfulness. Remember when Edwards had signed a contract then it turned out he hadnt signed anything?

The trick would have been to say "that's all over with".

But I suspect that whatever publicity Permanent Assistant Shaun was trying to drum up for the Six Nations will be forgotten in today's new development.

The things SE is saying now ties in to what happened, so for me makes it more believable.

“lack of security”
We know he wasn’t offered a contract, rather a verbal agreement. Probably one of the most ridiculous and embarrassing things I’ve heard our great club do, just above offering Tony Clubb a 2yr extension.

“Coaching staff choices weren’t approached”
Wigan have kept the same back room staff for Lam as with Wane (minus Bitcon) for the second season running. That either means Lam didn’t want his own staff, plausible as he was only supposed to be here for one season, or he was never given the choice - plausible again as there has been no movement. IL likes the assistant to Head Coach route, as proven with Wane and probably why John Winder is still there. Honestly I can believe IL didn’t want SE’s coaching staff as they’d cost a fortune as opposed to the much cheaper option he has now.

“Williams sold behind my back”
Nothing really to back that up but given IL has been adventurous with the truth in the past it’s hard to not be tempted in by the notion he hasn’t been truthful with SE.

There’s 3 sides to every story; version A, version B and the truth.