For those who haven't heard it.



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he did not exactly sat that nobby`s job was safe did he

Didn't give much away in that but wasn't overly supportive of Noble.

He sounds like a 1970s throwback. Wigan lad talking in his telephone voice.

I wonder what his reaction was to Nobby sending the obviously injured Hock back into battle only to see the poor lad nearly get crippled at his first attempt to tackle someone.



Whatever industry you work in, you'd give someone making such a decision a severe dressing down at the earliest opportunity.



Noble is becoming a bigger moron game by game.

That was his worst decision of the night, i have never seen hock stay down.



It was clear he wasnt well, to send him back on was -



A) waste of a substitution

B) Dangerous considering he was clearly hurt, thankfully he didnt do himslef any damage and should be able to pull the shirt on next week

If I was Noble I might just be a little worried after listening to that.

He said what he could say.



He's hardly going to come out saying I'm thinking of sacking Brian Noble but he kept saying we have a very good squad quite a few times which suggests he's not blaming the players.



Noble will be in a job for this week but lose to Harlequins and I think he's gone.

Although bitterly disappointed, it took IL only 23 seconds to mention our only positive tonight..that being Sean Ainscough's performance.



However had Phelps not been injured, I fully expect that he would have had Ainscough's place in the team and we would have had NO positives tonight, possibly suffered an even heavier defeat....lets face it, Phelps wouldn't have scored that try last night!!!!



Had our head coach gambled on Sam Tomkins yesterday, maybe IL could have commented on another magnificent debut and perhaps even a Wigan victory.



Sadly, we'll never know.



And for this he (Noble) gets my vote of NO confidence.

I genuinely think this is the case in Lenagan's mind.

IL ain't know mug, and his comment regarding the only positive to come from the game is that NOBLE picked both Ainscough and Pryce for the match is rather interesting.



We all know including IL that one if not both of these players WOULD NOT have played had it not been for injuries to Richards, Phelps and Mathers. Noble did not pick these players by choice he was backed into a corner by having no option.



Me feels theres a hidden message in there. Why would he say 'Brians picked the new players' why not just say 'the new players Pryce and Ainscough', theres been rumours abounding from the end of last season that IL and BN don't see eye to eye on when to start blooding the young kids. Hopefully now IL will see that he's been right all along and these kids are ready but they've been stifled by BN rufusal to drop the better paid Antipodeans.

If we lose to Quins, we then have Bradford and Leeds. Potentially starting the season with six defeats??



If we lose to quins, Noble will be down the road but not before.



If we lose to quins and noble gets the boot, I wouldn't put it past us to go and beat Leeds and Bradford.