It was THE factor. Everything went wrong once Greg fell ill. Its a tragedy that we will never know what we could have achieved.

Combined with the appointment of Millward, if someone could have built on the foundations laid rather than instantly destroy the moral and togetherness of the team, the story may well have been very different.

Until the day I found out he'd passed, I never stopped hoping that Greg was going to get better and come back. Sentimentality can easily cloud one's thinking, but I really do think he would have gone on to be one of the great Wigan coaches.