I don’t doubt his “success” with Cas but it’s his whole persona, the “it’s never our fault but theirs” attitude. It just doesn’t fit in to the ‘Wigan’ way. To put it another way; I just don’t like him one iota.

Oh me either don't get me wrong. I don't like Brian McDermott either (even less so in person than on TV) but he had great success.

Said it before about Powell, "Agent Millward" with a giant Yorkshire chip on his shoulder, no thanks.

What about Simon Woolford? He did a decent job with Huddersfield.

Woolford is going to Penrith as an assistant, I heard.

What success?

Taking them to LLS, a Grand Final and a CC Final isn't bad at all for the resources he's had.

Powell is an excellent technical coach but he hates us as much as most of the Wigan fans hate him. He would never come and I'd never want him here. His main problem is looking to attribute everything that goes wrong to external factors rather than focusing on what he and the club can control.

I'm glad you said this...



I got shot down as I said Watson should be jumping at the chance of moving to us.



Let's face it "success" isn't reaching a final, or it isn't in my book anyway. Whilst both Watson and Powell have done good jobs, if they want real success that's winning the league or a CC. After that there's long term success with multiple wins and building a dynasty.

Note success in quotation marks making the word almost sarcastic

With a outstanding squad led by a outstanding captain and two great halfbacks which when it broke up, exposed McDermott limitations as a Coach with the result that he left the club and no other club in our country made a move for him.

I think McDermott would be bottom of my list tbh. I just couldn’t comprehend being coached by the bloke. He’s had some success and he must be a good coach but the guy is just so difficult to like. I’ve had him described to me as a bully by somebody who has dealt with him and you need a particular group of players to work well with a coach like that. It reminds me a bit of Jose Mourinho at Chelsea, were his antics seemed to work but he’s struggled to replicate that with different groups of players in this country.