Re: Edwards provides clarity : Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:34 pm  

"Wigan Warriors are aware of quotes from Shaun Edwards regarding his future contractual arrangements. “Following the conclusion of the Six Nations and Shaun’s comments, we have been seeking dialogue with Shaun directly since Sunday to clarify to Wigan his intentions" In other words... he isn't picking up the phone. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/wi ... is-future/

"Wigan Warriors are aware of quotes from Shaun Edwards regarding his future contractual arrangements. “Following the conclusion of the Six Nations and Shaun’s comments, we have been seeking dialogue with Shaun directly since Sunday to clarify to Wigan his intentions" In other words... he isn't picking up the phone. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/wi ... is-future/

Re: Edwards provides clarity : Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:36 pm  

Let’s be honest there will clearly be blame on both sides, there always is in situations like this.

The club however by not producing a legally binding contract have failed themselves and the fans massively. We look like loosing our next coach before he has even turned up for free. No compensation. In this current climate that is criminal.

I will wait till all the facts come out in the wash however I have stated on numerous times in the past Rads does not have the CV required of a top class administrator for a club like Wigan and I personally have no confidence in him in his current role. IF he is responsible for this mess it is time for him to go.

Re: Edwards provides clarity : Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:38 pm  

We should just fire everybody until we run out of people to blame

Re: Edwards provides clarity : Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:47 pm  

Bloody hell Mathers

Re: Edwards provides clarity : Mon Mar 18, 2019 4:07 pm  

I blame "one trick Mick".

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Re: Edwards provides clarity : Mon Mar 18, 2019 4:28 pm  

Cruncher wrote:

Legally binding contracts don't count for much in Rugby League. We've all seen that repeatedly.

I'm not saying the club are without responsibility - if anything I think they may have been too trusting. But I don't think you can afford to assume that Edwards is being 100% truthful and/or that Wigan are 100% lying. If he gets the England job, that will not have been because the Wigan job went belly-up. It will almost certainly be the cause of why the Wigan job went belly-up.

Contracts aren't meaningless. If Edwards had signed one Wigan would have to agree to release him from it. As to the club being too trusting are you suggesting just leaving this all to be done at a later date is a sensible way to do business? Since when has it been competent management to "sign" anyone, coach or player who is in demand and NOT get them to sign on the dotted line thus giving other interested parties every opportunity to nip in and temp them away? If Edwards takes the England job it's because he's been offered it when it became apparent to the England RFU he was not contracted to Wigan and thus he has no obligations to Wigan due to the clubs incompetence.

If this is what happens I am sure we will get the usual patronising BS spin from IL but what you can't get away from is he announced Edwards as coach with a three year deal in place when no such deal had been agreed. That in itself is astonishing.

Re: Edwards provides clarity : Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:03 pm  

Angelus wrote:

"Wigan Warriors are aware of quotes from Shaun Edwards regarding his future contractual arrangements.

“Following the conclusion of the Six Nations and Shaun’s comments, we have been seeking dialogue with Shaun directly since Sunday to clarify to Wigan his intentions"

In other words... he isn't picking up the phone.

Let's be honest though - If they're trying to get hold of him on the weekend after Wales won the 6 Nations, he's probably out on the p!ss with the lads.

Don't get me wrong - I'm as pee'd off with this as anybody - Especially with Shaun giving a "Come and get me" plea to the world of RU, using the press, but I just have to assume blame on both sides.

If Lenegan and/or Radlinski didn't get a signed contract, then they are behaving like amateurs.

If Edwards signed something, then he's acting like a knob and trying to backtrack on a deal as soon as he realised that he's now worth MUCH more than we will have offered him.

Either way, Wigan RLFC look completely inept and look to be trying to hire a complete mercenary as our next coach.

Nobody is going to come out of this with any credibility IMO, regardless of who is actually at fault.

Re: Edwards provides clarity : Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:17 pm  

My view on this for what it’s worth is that I think the club are guilty of naivety and Edwards is guilty of changing his mind and screwing you over.

Re: Edwards provides clarity : Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:24 pm  

FearTheVee wrote:

My view on this for what it’s worth is that I think the club are guilty of naivety and Edwards is guilty of changing his mind and screwing you over.

That sums up my views both precisely and succinctly.

Re: Edwards provides clarity : Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:31 pm  

Remind me again of why he was known as Gizmo.