However remiss IL and KR were about the contract business - and there are just as many stories saying that Edwards kept finding reasons why he couldn't sign - he should NEVER have led the Wigan fans up the garden path the way he did.

The OP asked the question would we want Edwards after this fiasco. Most seem to agree that SE too has behaved very unprofessionally throughout. There's absolutely no point him him saying that he has full respect for IL if his actions tell a different story. Apparently Wigan's offer is still open (amazingly, to me), but Shaun is 'still making his mind up'. That doesn't sound like a man who was stiffed over a contract, or someone who at his press conference gave a full commitment to the Wigan fans that a new dawn was coming.

Would I take SE as coach after this? Yes, but only if there was absolutely no one else. Because I wouldn't trust him not to leave us a week later if RU snapped its fingers.

I feel it has simply gone too far now. Could you imagine how the players would feel being coached by someone who is there almost by default? We thought the uncertainty surrounding the start of this year was bad enough!

If he comes now after all this, I wont support him. Hes burnt his bridges with a lot of fans over this and its no-ones fault but his own. I'm actually quite angry; I havent been to a game in a while for various reasons, but I was looking forward already to the first game of next season so I could take my young son to his first ever game to see the return of arguably our greatest ever player and legend. Now I feel sad that I even got excited at that idea. Get bent, Edwards.

End of the day I see it like this:

1 - He decides in his own head he doesn’t want to job, especially after Wales success and has been offered the England RU job on the quiet.

2 - He starts seeing seeds and bits of sound bites to lessen the shock of him changing his mind, he casts doubt on the move with the ‘if and when’ comment.

3 - Throws a bit more into our and goes AWOL and let’s the speculation come to the realisation that he probably won’t come.

4 - We are just waiting for this stage now, this is where he admits he isn’t coming.

Time to get Edwards in NOW!!!

Article in The Sunday Times stating Edwards has rejected both Wigan and Wasps to stay on as defensive coach at Wales.

If this is true, which I don’t think we have any reason to doubt, it is an absolute disgrace for both sides and an embarrassment.

Can’t believe here are still people who would want him! Madness.

Say what you like about IL/KR, but they have tried their best for the club. Edwards, on the other hand, has deliberately screwed you all yet most still think the sun shines from his rear.

Incredible stuff.

For a Saints fan you talk a lot of sense, Edwards should be banned from ever entering the town again arrogant mercenary Ar**hole, he would have been nothing without this town and this club, then to treat us like this is shameful.

Part of me still does want him at Wigan. Almost like “the one that got away”, all this has left a very bitter taste in mine and most other Wigan fans mouths but the over riding feeling I get is what could have been had IL actually signed Edwards instead of a ridiculous handshake.

I do thoroughly believe Edwards would have taken us to the next level, he reminded me of SW funnily enough during the press conference. He came across as bleeding cherry and white and demanding nothing but perfection from his players as per SW. He was portrayed, and came across as, a straight shooter, an honest and loyal man who stood to his word. For that to be thrown back in the Wigan’s fans faces after such a fanfare in the announcement is disgusting.

There’s fault on both sides here. Both sides ought to be ashamed of themselves for the way it was handled and neither come out smelling of roses to us Wigan fans. SE comes out as a hero to the Wales RU fans and once again RL in general is made to look the mugs. I think we all knew this day was coming but right now it feels like another kick in the teeth in an already poor season.

So what now?

I imagine SE non coming will be announced by the club shortly in which case Lam should be given another few months to turn it around. If we’re still looking like we are he should be moved on and a new permanent coach brought in. In any case recruitment for 2020 now needs to be a priority. HB’s, props and a hooker please Mr Lenaghan, oh and do remember to actually have them sign a contract, yes?

The way Edwards has fed uncertainty through the media, tells me he never really wanted to come to Wigan. Even if IL had a contract to wave about, I believe that the only thing Wigan would gain is a compensation payment.

well thank the lord for that he is stopping with wales i think we have dodged a bullet his attitude through all this has been terrible and i fear down the line he will massively regret it.

I wish the club would create a Hall of Infamy and indoctrinate the greedy, more faces than a kipper Edwards as its first member.

The great risk taker looks like he’s bottled it and is staying in his nice n cushy comfort zone as defence coach with Wales rather than putting his head above the parapet and becoming the man to be ‘shot at’ as head coach be it at either Wigan or Wasps.

Amazing. There's been no sign of any Saints fans on this board for well over a year, and suddenly, not-so-mysteriously, they're reappearing again.

This one is a particularly good example of their obsession's depth.

Not content with the current Shaun Edwards fiasco, this specimen has to try and extend the culpability for it to the actual Wigan fans.

The trick, my lad, would be to check through past posts, both on here and on Twitter (and not just today!), to see just how many Wigan fans have been viciously angry with Shaun Edwards and totally blame him for this whole sorry affair. But no, that means you wouldn't be able to post blatant untruths like 'most still think the sun shines from his rear'.

We may be a joke at present, but you idiots aren't far behind us.

When wales flop at the world cup and they are all being s;lagged / shot at, he wont feel the same.