In addition, Wane has served a long and impressive apprenticeship at Wigan. When it comes to developing your skills and profile as a coach, he's done everything right.

The only questionmark would be, has he got the flare that we're looking for? I still feel we need a top-quality NRL coach - pure fantasy maybe, but we can dream - to kick us up to that next level.

I'm inclined to agree with others who've said that, as coaches don't count on the cap, why don't we just chuck a bit more than usual at one of the Aussie greats and try to entice him?

Would have liked Tim Sheens, but no chance now.

Millward.

Heard the same myself, which would be a positive change in the dressing room, if you believe the rumors .

promote shaun wane.
sliiping into fantasy mode id see if faz fancied joining the backrrom staff with his lad coming over with him

Whilst i think that shaun wayne has done a great job so far at the club, im not always for promoting from within the club, as i cant think of too many examples of that working.

Apart from noble at bradford that is, but we all know he had nothing to do with their success!

I think promoting from within is difficult for the coach to go from players mate to boss. I said the same thing when we put betts in charge and it didnt go to well.

However i also said it when they put mike greg in charge (how wrong i was) and i honestly think that under different and less tragic circumstances he would have gone onto great things at wigan, as the players would quite easily run through walls for him.

Now from what i hear, shaun wayne has a similar respect from his academy lads so i may just be talking out the back of my head!

On another thought, there is no relegation in order to give the young players a chance, could the same theory not be used for young coaches, instead of bringing in a overseas coach.

I guess its again a question of what we want out of our team as fans, success (proven coach) or the development of our game as a whole (young coach).

One thing is for certain, if noble does leave, i cant see IL paying for a coach, so its either promote from within or get someone who is out of work!

some good points there and we can only imagine what could have been with mike gregory. i'm all for promoting from within. obviously there's no guarantee that it will prove successful, but we as Wigan fans should know that bringing in a coach from outside is no guarantee of silverware or even good performances either.

I don't understand what you mean by this. No coach is going to come to Wigan for free. Promoted from within or taken off the dole, they're still going to want the sort of salary that would be appropriate for the head-coach of Wigan RL.

If I were Shaun Wane I would keep well away - poison chalice and all that

Sorry didnt make myself clear. Obviously a wage would be payable to anyone performing a job at the club. What i meant was when we signed noble, he was under contract at bradford, so we would have had to pay compensation to bradford. And out of work coaches are usually out of work for a reason.

That is what i meant by pay for a coach. Hope that clears it up.