I thought the correct time was earlier in the season when half of this site wanted Noble to be sacked?

mate just accept whatever you say..they will come back with another laughable excuse for slating IL.

Just read and laugh

35k a year? Come off it he could have got a lot more than that at Barrow and worked part time.

Are you IL's fluffer? Or do you just have a weird man-crush on him?

he didnt terminate it he didnt renew it and it run its course.

Why?

Dont you think hes well fit too

I will slate IL about things he needs slating for. But your reasons are just laughable and pathetic.

But keep going we needed a laugh to lift our morals and your supplying that

thank you

I can't believe people are still talking about Mickey Higham.

For God's sake, it was ages ago!

But even if it hadn't been, if letting Higham go is the only thing people have got to complain about re. IL, then it's hardly a major problem. Higham was a willing lad, but he certainly wasn't worth all this spilled blood. Losing Barrett was a much bigger issue, and Barrett's main gripe at Wigan was with Noble.

Losing Barrett has been massive for us, if we had Trent we would have won last night, we currently don't have the world class player to win us those kind of games.

I hope that, mixed in with the team we have and team we have to come, there will still be one or two Barrett's as Wigan is still an attraction and has a history with top quality imports, we need those world class stars to go with "our lot" otherwise we might not be able to attain the success we strive for.

Leeds and Saints for all IL likes to compare, are examples of that as well.

Regarding his gripe - I thought he went home because of family issues?

To be honest i was not bothered to see Higham go but agreed at the time the way IL did it was wrong.

I have said all along to AJ that i did not like IL. From day one i knew there was something about him.

IMO hes nothing but a surly,obnoxious and sly little man who loves himself. I cannot stand the sight of the man and last night when he walked on the pitch looking up to our end i felt sick.

He did, but he had a couple of mega bust-ups with Noble, who supposedly overruled him when he was trying to 'modernise' some of Wigan's tactics.

I've been informed by someone at the club that Trent and Nobby's relatinship during Trent's second year was not the best.

Fair enough.

What we need is a harmonised club.

Its getting a bit tiresome and worrying hearing about the players not liking Noble, the players not liking IL, IL not liking the coach etc etc.

Thats the sort of infighting that needs to stop, and will hopefully be someway down that track now IL has his own man in charge.

Agreed

I was also getting bored and tired with the annual "clear the air talks" this team seemed to have.

Hopefully the times are changing with a new guy coming in

I am not Lenagan's biggest fan by a long way but I applaud his ruthlessness on this occasion. Sentiment shouldn't play a part in decisions like this.

I think Nobby has earned the respect of the vast majority of Wigan fans however and he most certainly can leave with his head held high.

I was getting a bit fed up with everyone getting on Lenagan's back because of the way he treated Noble. I don't think he did much wrong, to be honest.

The problems seemed to start when Lenagan approached Stephen Kearney. He only did that because Noble went in the press and said he'd love to coach in the NRL, and was linked with the Roosters job. Now if I'm running a business, and my manager turns round and says "yeah I'd love to work somewhere else if I was given the opportunity" the first thing I'd do to plan for the future, is approach a few people and say "if my coach goes, would you like to replace him" Its called forward planning, and its common sense not to leave it until your coach finally says he's going to then start panicking because you don't have a replacement.

Noble took it as a personal insult that someone else had been asked whether they'd consider coaching Wigan, and didn't want to sign another contract because of the way he was treated.

Personally I like Noble, and wish Lenagan would have patched things up and kept him on. (I know most people don't agree with me, but Noble has done a lot for Wigan, to expect him to take us from relegation candidates to winners of silverware is a VERY big ask) But for everyone to say the way Lenagan treated Noble was horrible is a bit harsh in my opinion[/i]

So do you regularly take a dislike to people you don't know - on first sight, and then are such an ignoramus as to boast about it?

You were born after your time. There'd have plenty of work for you during the Third Reich.

You do realise, do you, that this post alone renders all your future posts on the subject of IL or even Wigan RL almost completely invalid?

AJ, who has several more grains of sense than you - but then so does the average maggot - would do well to start distancing himself from your opinions, or he'll end up getting tarred with the same brush of thick-skulled idiocy.