Quote Deano G="Deano G"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, they say. Just look at us now. Maybe it was the desperate low we reached during the Millward era that forced people to realise finally that we needed to start rebuilding the great Wigan club.
So actually "agent" Millward did us a favour. All that pain was worth it and in a strange way its thanks to Millward that we are now back where we belong! Maybe...'"
There might actually be something in that.
I don't know how long IL was waiting in the wings for, but I really got the feeling towards the end of their time in charge that Whelan and Lindsay were fed up and had no real idea how to continue.
Whelan had even, allegedly, made some comment a few months earlier to the effect that if we hadn't won something in a couple of years he'd be packing it in.
The 'relegation season' was just about the last straw for everyone else as well. I hadn't seen the controllers of Wigan RL get so much abuse in the newspaper letters pages for decades. Some people were even saying that we should be relegated because the whole club was in such a mess that it would give us the chance to have a massive clear-out and start again from scratch (a bit drastic, that, in my view, but that was how passions were running).
Yeah, I think you're right. The arrival of Millward was another classic exampe of a Lindsay quick-fix, and sure proof that we desperately needed new, more imaginative leadership. The acquisiton of Nobby seemed great at the time, and probably saved his bacon for a couple of extra years, but there were so many cracks by then that even the Nobster couldn't paste over them.
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But if they had been Indians instead of cowboys, they would have been blood brothers, allegedly!!
