Of all the coaches that we have had since the early 70's, where do you rate Jimmy Lowes?



1971 - Alex Murphy

1978 - Billy Benyon

1982 - Kevin Ashcroft

1984 - Reg Bowden

1986 - Tony Barrow

1988 - Brian Johnson

1996 - John Dorahy

1997 - Darryl van de Velde

2001 - Steve Anderson

2002 - David Plange

2003 - Paul Cullen

2008 - Jimmy Lowes





1 - Alex Murphy

2 - Brian Johnson

3 - Billy Benyon

4 - Tony Barrow

5 - Kevin Ashcroft

6 - Paul Cullen

7 - Darryl van de Velde

8 - John Dorahy/ (Murphy)

9 - Reg Bowden

10 - David Plange

11 -Steve Anderson

12 -Jimmy Lowes

Really??



Worse than anderson already??

And how we moaned about Johnsons 1 man rugby

Johnson above Benyon and Barrow???...

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Sorry, not a chance.



Personally, always felt Barrow got a particularly poor treatment, getting dismissed after a poor few MONTHS, compared with Johnson, who, whilst he did an ok job, outlived his welcome by a year or so.

The only positiver for BJ was the Wembley final (and Lancs cup, regal trophy)

Which is more than we've had since. You've also got to factor in how financially unstable the club was towards the end of Johnson's reign, with the subcequent player unrest being a big factor in his departure.



This sorry lot don't realise how good they've got it.

Brian Johnson & Billy Benyon were the only 2 coaches to come anywhere near winning the league.

Barrow should be at number 2. In his era wigan were the only full time team with everybody else part time. We were consistently challenging them in finals for lancashire cups, prienierships, john player etc and when they won romped to a league title only losing 2 games it was us who beat them home and away. Wigan apart, we were the best team in the league under barrow.

Wigan were very dominant during the later parts of the 80's but it took a Warrington player to link their team together. That player was Andy Gregory.

Other players left to go to Wigan : Case - Potter - McGinty. But it was Gregory that was missed the most.

We were left with Paul Bishop. I think if we had kept hold of Gregory we would have won alot more trophies under Johnson.

Johnno struggled in his last season but knew what was going on behind the scenes and fell on his sword. He instructed the players to play one out in our own half, but do what you like in the oppositions. Our defence under Johnno was outstanding in the couple of seasons we had Jiffy and just relied upon him to pull the creative bit out of the bag.



Never forget that game against Sheffield at home in the last game of the season. Wire top of the league.

That Anthony seems to be doing good business with the club. Not sure who we used before him, though?

....Hmmm, Gregory jumped ship for Wigan some 2 years before Johnson became coach??.....It was Tony Barrow who had to continue without him, and did an excellent job of finding his replacement, teaming John Woods with Keith Holden at half back, which, but for terrible luck for Holden, would have been an even better partnership than Edwards/Gregory at Wigan.