I am very impressed, and feel tumescent at the thought of the forthcoming season....

I am always sceptical to this theory Brian Noble has laid down 'solid foundations' for Mike MaGuire to build from. I think it is just an over used cliche. The main message I seem to be getting from the management, and one of the main reasons supporters are feeling optimistic, is the change of culture going on around the club. Also it's not like we're keeping the same staff either - we've had a complete overhaul from top to bottom at the club in that department. We're hearing of new structures, set plays and methods from Mike MaGuire - nothing about building on from what Noble has done. I fail to see what/where these solid foundations are.

He did say we had got great facilities

Facilities
Reserve and academy have improved although it's not all down to Noble
Noble took us from bottom of the table to finishing 3rd 3 years on the bounce

The club is in a much better state than 2005 and 2006, MaGuire would have a much tougher job if he was taking it from there.

Noble himself said he'd built us a bridge and was sad that he wouldn't get to paint it...................they're leaving that to Feka, Pryce and Riddell as part of the extra fitness work.

All the stretching of the arms should rid them of their 'Moobs'.

Looks like Deacon will also be playing more of a part than most of us anticipated.

Maguire seemed to reiterate that he will be looking to see Deacon finish his career in the right way and seems to point towards him playing a pretty significant part for us next year.

I hope it works out for us. There will be pressure for him to perform. If thats the case Leuluai is a dead cert to play hooker.

I hope he is, give him the reserves to work with.

Both good interviews. One telling comment in the sky sports interview was "as is" with regards to signings for next year. Looks like we can put those Graham rumours to bed.

I've been sittng on this for a while now 2 see if anything comes up about it but I doubt Mcilorum has much of a future at Wigan.

Without trying 2 get my post deleted let's just say him and Wane had a few words at the bottom of Wigan lane a few weeks back!

It was because I was using Safari as my browser and not Internet Explorer .... Doh

Maguires the boss

He'll decide if Micky as a future at wigan not Wane

Depends why they were arguing you not think?

Wasn't there allegations of problems on last years warm weather training camp in Teneriffe causing Mickey Mac to be disciplined and missing a couple of games at the start of the season.