Do you think all the pieces are now in place?

Also for every group of players in the squad (apart from the centres) we've got a former international player to mentor and coach them.

Full Backs & Wing=Radders
Centre's=Maguire
HB's=Deacs
Props=Wane
2nd row & 13=Forshaw

Now i know not all the coaches are specific i.e Forshaw is a conditioner and Maguire is the head coach but still there are plenty of places our players can go for advice.

We’ve got the coaches & facilities that hopefully should lead to mass improvements in our talented but under performing squad.

Could this be one of the most important pre seasons in the clubs history?

I dont know if we have the squad to win trophies next year, but we will soon find out

I couldnt be happier with how the coaching line up is looking

I'm guessing Rads is going to be under 18's coach but who's going to be the reserves coach?

Is Forshaw still in the plans for next year? Seemed to be strong rumours a while back that he was deprating along with the rest of the back room staff.

All looks good on paper, although lacking some experience (not one of the coaches has been a head coach yet). Think we should leave it as it is. Any more signings and I think we are in danger of too many cooks.

I'm assuming Pendlebury.

I thought he'd left Rogues, or is he just moving from one role to another?

I thought I read somewhere that he’s staying at the club.

I don’t think anyone can argue against the statement that the head coaching role at Wigan was just too big of a job for him. That being said I am still happy to have him around as a No.2 conditioner and an extra helping and tactical hand at the club.

Changing roles I believe, just concentrating on coaching.

We have enough coaches to field a team, I'm sure one of them will coach the Reserves.

Lets bring in a coach to coach the coaches, and a coach to coach the coach driver !!!!!!!

It can't be 6 months since he moved into Lydon’s old job of overseeing all aspects of coaching through the different levels at Wigan can it?

I can't help but have the feeling that something special is in the offing here....

We've gone from "just getting by" with the usual 2 guys in charge to a fully professional (aka Ozzie) coaching setup.

We not only have (reputedly) one of the master tacticians from the NRL in charge, but IL has allowed him to recruit not just the usual Assistant Coach, but an ENTIRE Back-room TEAM.

We have a team on the field, who will now be coached by a team off-field.

I can only compare this to the top MMA fighters.
The best in the business wil have a separate coach for wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, jiu-jitsu, fitness, etc..
If you are missing any one of those, then you have an obvious weakness in your game-plan

We now have the same kind of setup.
Specialist coaches for forwards, backs, half-backs, conditioning (now also a team). All of this will free up at least some of the head-coaches time to construct a real, actual game-plan.

When was the last time that we saw Wigan game-plans that were tailored to the individual team that we're playing against.

(When was the last time that Wigan had anything resembling an actual game-plan for that matter) ???

I just hope that we either have or recruit a nutritionist and (if necessary) a mental-coach (no, I don't mean Millward - We all know he's a f***ing mental coach).

I think that Wigan might have just started the biggest revolution in British Rugby League since we instigated full-time professionalism all those years back.

I can (honestly) see us dominating, maybe not this year but almost certainly next year, due to the utter professionalism of the coaching team, and wouldn't be at all surprised to see teams like Leeds/Saints follow suit in a year or two.

I understand the optimism but I'm adopting 'the proof's in the pudding' approach before getting too excited.