Noble linked to Celtic...

Quote: DaveO "No it did not. Once Mo, Jack Robinson, Tom Rathbone and Jack Hilton assumed control with Mo as Chairman success was rapid and consistent.

Prior to that momentous event before those four assumed control the club was run by a large committee and it was the one huge step that those four took which placed Mo at the helm. That wasn't a small step but a huge one and once taken success came very quickly.

ML was on the board in 1979, as where all the others in the the Gang of 4 - The gang of 4 did take control in 1982 but it took 3 years to assume that control - Maybe it will take 3 years for IL to turn around what has happened under Whelan's administration????

There are absolutely no parallels in the way Mo chose who coached Wigan or who got signed and what has happened with Noble and the squad.

Did I say there was?
I said the coach situation (Which Mo would have had say in) didn't go from Bamford to Lowe - There were 2 or 3 othjers in between!

I said that the Coach/Chairman or whomever decided on sigining Grgory etc did not go from Jinkin Jimmy to Andy Gregory! There were again 3 other steps inbetween!

So again, you criticise me for something I Never said!

Mo and the other three members of the gang of four staged their board room coup in 1982. Wigan won its first trophy in 12 years one year later in 1983, the John Player Trophy. In 1984 the club got to Wembley and got beaten by Widnes but returned in 1985 to win it in the epic game v Hull.

For a start we can only talk about the CC & The League as that is all that's left! Who's to say that If the JPS didn't exist back in those days we would have won anything? The revenue etc that the JPS win gave the club and the impetus it provided was a big turning point, without it would we have had the impetus to go on and win the CC 2 x years later????
We'll never know but I do think that we would have, Mo was a visionary AT THAT TIME however again you choose to ignore the FACT that I am right that Mo had 3 coaches before he chose Lowe!!!!!! 3 steps not 1 Huge one!
Would Lowe have come to Wigan in 80/81/82?????????

We won the championship in 1986 that is four years after Mo assumed the reigns not eight and the world club challenge the next year.

No we didn,t! We won it in 87!
Mo didn't assume the reigns, he was part of the 4 that took over the reigns of a club that they already had a significant say in!
See I can Nit Pick as well if you want! 4.326171875:5