THIS!

Just to add, there are other great coaches like Brian Noble who have won everything, thesedays they are well behind people like Smith and Maguire.

That's how I heard it too!

I would imagine it would be £10 tickets to try and get 1 supported club in SL because they (IL and the club) have always wanted to try and get 4 attandances over 20k and were very dissapointed when the BigOne3 didnt aceive this.

Surely then if MM had stayed at Wigan for his third year we would be start to become less successful due to his out of date techniques (three years old)?

So what's the solution (to be ahead of the pack)?

* Recruit every one / two years from the NRL to obtain latest techniques?
* Send current Head Coach to Aus for a few months to refresh techniques?
* Link up with NRL club and obtain latest techniques by video link?

Depends whether he was an integral part of developing the techniques at the forefront of top level RL (the NRL). If so, he's shown he has the nouse to think ahead of the game and could do so again.

If he's just nicked them from Bellamy then yes, you may be right. I suppose we will see as and when Wigan get to the play-offs whether his tactics are as dominant as they were last season, but you need to innovate to stay ahead longer term.

Wigan play a very structured style of rugby. Structure can lead to predictability if not contrantly updated. Wigan are fortunate in that within this structure, they have an "off the cuff" genius in Sam Tomkins.

Wigan show no signs of ending their domination any time soon, can Wane maintain the gap next year by adding his own take on the game and stopping the team stagnating? Or will they fall back to the pack by doing the "same old"?

Who knows, the "same old" may be good enough for years to come, provided Sam stays fit as he is proving the difference between Wigan and the best of the rest more often than not.

Of course, but there's a lot more to it than that, as Madge is the first to concede.

Certainly as far as tactics and motivation go, Madge deserves massive credit, but the bulk of the team was effectively created and developed by Waney, who must get the credit for the skill levels that brought us three consecutive Reserve GF wins...more than half our team came through in those 3 years.

Similarly, Mark Bitcon and the rest of the backroom staff had crucial input into our much improved fitness levels, which have been a huge factor, not only in our match fitness but also our relatively decent injury situation.

In my opinion, it's Ian Lenagan that has has the biggest effect, both in changing the "club culture" back to something that Rads then identified as a problem, and now approves of, and in choosing the right calibre of coaching and backroom staff, Madge included.

It's pretty obvious we are behind Wigan by a little way at the moment and i doubt any saints fan with common sense can't see this.

We are also losing one of our best players in James Graham and he will be huge loss no doubt.

However, wigan are losing the best thing thaw happened to the club in god knows how many Years in MM. IMO the loss of MM is far greater than the loss of James Graham at saints.

If wane does get the job, it's always going to be a step down as MM is the best coach in super league by a long way.

Seeing as IL and Rads are going to be the guys making this decision, I'll be happy with whoever they appoint. I trust their judgement 100%

Unless it's Millward!

Wayne Bennet is our new coach for next season

We won't have Maguire anymore granted but we'll have a guy who's worked day in day out with him for 2 years so therefore any changes will be kept to a bare minimum. We will still have Mark Bitcom as well who's the man responsible for getting these players as fit as they are now.

We dominate games via our aggression combined with our fitness and with those 2 around we won't have a problem on that score.

Not to mention we will still have pretty much all the same players as now, players like Finch, Lockers, Leuluai and maybe even Deacon will lead us round the park.

Exactly . we don't need change just more of the same . And that's why i think Wane will work .keeping changes to the bare minimum .

Just as MM learnt his trade off Bellamy so has Wane off MM.

People seem to think madge was a coach years ago he was assistant first

Also I'm sure Maguire has even learnt a few tricks from Wane himself. He is afterall a Wiganer through and through and will have helped Maguire in plenty of ways.

Wane will take all the strong points and processes Maguire has brought in and add his own stamp.

He'll do fine.