Wigan needed special dispensation from the Rugby Football League to employ Maguire, who was not at Wednesday's press conference at the DW Stadium but will join the club next month.

Celtic did the same with John Dixon. Where you up in arms about that?







It's all downhill after coaching at Wigan

Sweepstake for which month there is a 36 page McGuire Out thread on cherry&white?



I will go for July 2010.

I'll go for March 2010 started by me





Seems as though I'm the only Wigan fan unconvinced by his appointment, everyone else seems happy enough at this stage.

What are your reservations concerning the appointment?

The fact that he is an unproven 1st team coach in either the NRL or SL, in my time of watching Wigan I have never known us to go for an assistant coach with little 1st team experience, unless they was already assistant at Wigan. He may have been assistant in the NRL with the Melbourne Storm who are one of the top teams but that was as assistant, I hope I'm wrong and he takes us to that next level that Nobby couldn't do but I just feel it's a big risk.

Come on Mini, there's a risk with every appointment be it coach or player.

Maguire appears ready for a first team coaches job and he'll get every assistance from Lenegan as he's his man.

Noble was Mo's man and he's gone.

IL has to deliver now and he'll give Maguire every support he needs.

The last two Final Eliminator games Wigan lost at KR and the Shed were by 4 points.

It won't take a great deal of improvement to get Wigan into finals and winning them.

IL and Wigan has the money to buy, also Wigan have the best reserves and youth structure by a country mile!

Wigan have a lot going for them, come Mimi be optimistic!

I dont know much about him, but I do know he will be a million times better than Noble, Millward or any coach Wigan have had over the last ten years.

Ah well,



Red Hall should have an internal look at all the money it wastes in a financial years.



I can save the game £'000's of pounds.



Ditch all the development schemes for both coaches and players, for as can be seen, these are entirely useless.



A lot of money has been spent that perhaps really should have gone to clubs to BUY "better" players from overseas.



I await the day when someone at the top will admit that the "best we can do" is become an inferior copy of the game in Australia.



1982 was a watershed.



And where are we now?



Overseas coaches ( NOT THE BEST BY A COUNTRY MILE) and past it, crocked, pension seeking, last fling players who contribute very little but take an awful lot out of the game.



The people I really feel truly sorry for are the people who put hours into the game with kids and amateur teams for no financial reward only to see their efforts wasted.

We are all doomed!!



Wigan should have gone for Karl Harrison, Paul Cullen or Daryl Powell instead. Invest in the future of our sport with these up and coming coaches who are sure to lead us to the promised land?



Or maybe Wigan have invested in Maguire to not only win us things but also to develop a certain MR Wane who got a promotion today.

Didn’t John Sharpe, Rotherham, Brain McDermott etc all coach at top SL clubs before having a go themselves.



Isn’t there a difference between coaching and being the person responsible for the coaches?

I think the point is being missed.





The best coach available got the job. You can't argue with that.



He is part of the most successful coaching team in the history of the modern game.



He has been at the cutting edge of the latest training techniques, tactics, game stratgies and such for the last few years.



He is the best available.





Surely it is the clubs responsibility for its fans AND its players to get the best coach it possibly can no matter where he is from.





You can not like it all you want, but the fact is that if you want the best, you buy Australian.