I think you mean lying in the press release.

Still no contrition or apology for lying to the fans. If the club said we were playing St Helens on Good Friday I'd want to double check from now on.

IL is a millionaire business man.

You don't attain wealth like his by telling the truth all of the time.

His credibility and integrity has been exposed - again !

Who has told you all of this ? how can it be proved ? as I have said before without a a signed contract SE cannot be in breach, morals dont come into it.
IL is the captain of the ship and the buck stops with him.

We (Lenagan) would receive a minor sum to release Edwards from his contract.

So we'd be in the same boat.

He doesn't want to be here. End of story.

So you're saying, Edwards agreed to be Wigan coach, in July/start of August, but didnt want to discuss pay or sign a contract till after he finished a tournament that starts in February the year after? That finishes middle/end of march?

If you believe that I've got some nice beachfront property I'm looking to sell.

The terms were fully agreed and Edwards was pleased to parade in front of the world’s press saying he’s the new coach.
The contract wasn’t signed due to some unusual intracies on Edwards part that the club were still working through. He orchestrated the press release to say he hasn’t signed, purely because he saw his stock rise. What he failed to say was that he hasn’t physically signed the contract because of his unusual requests that IL was still trying hard to resolve.

I hear that some HMRC checks had to be carried out due to a request by SE which shouldn't take 9 months.
The whole episode is a bit of a fiasco with neither party looking good.
I'd rather kick on and forget SE and look for a replacement Asap

Shane Flanagan

We can but dream but time move from this sorry affair

I’d love for us to dangle the carrot of Lam taking over full time and see how the players react. Do they believe in his methods and do they want him to coach them long term? Looking at them so far you’d say no chance but with that uncertainty lifted or partially lifted, maybe they’ll rise to the chance of getting it settled longer term in Lams favour.

I have to say though I’m far from convinced but would love to be wrong.

Another master class in defence and attack tonight from Tomkins.

Really?, I'd have given him a solid 6

Until the final pass for Yaha he was pretty good but not fantastic by any stretch. We could really do with him at seven alongside Hardaker and Williams but the club was never going to pay 300k a season to keep him as a game managing half and not the marauding, game changing full back he used to be.

There is no way on this earth Shaun Edwards would have done the press conference at Wigan last August had he not already agreed length and terms of contract .