Brian Noble. Reasons underlined below:

Ian Millward - Top-flight coaching record:

St Helens - Played 95, won 71. Sacked for gross misconduct.

Wigan - Played 12, won 3. Sacked for poor team performance.

North Queensland - Played 14, won 2. Replaced by Neil Henry.

Honours:

2000, 2002 - Grand final winner.

2001, 2004 - Challenge Cup winner.

2001 - World Club Challenge winner.



Brian Noble - Top-flight coaching record.

Bradford - Played 80, won 65. Left to go to Wigan.

Wigan (replacing Millward) - Played 91, won 49. Contract not renewed.

Crusaders - Played 31, won 14.

Great Britain - Played 14, won 6.

Honours:

2001, 2003, 2005 - Grand final winner.

2003 - Challenge Cup winner.

2002, 2004, 2006 - World Club Championship winner.

Why would anyone not want Ian Millward in charge ?



Only three coaches - Noble, McRae and Tony Smith - have won more SL matches than him and he has also won 2 SL titles, 2 Challenge Cups, the World Club Challenge and now the Northern Rail Cup with the play-offs to come and I wouldn't mind betting he denies Featherstone that.



He'll be as hungry as hell after coaching outside SL and I think he'll prove better for Cas' than Matterson.

Those coaching figures are wrong and I know he did it tough at Wigan but these are the facts:



He took over in May 2005 and won 8 of 15 league and cup matches to the end of that season.



Admittedly, he had a nightmare at the start of the following season (1 win from 9) and that cost him his job.



So, in total he won 9 of 24 games (or 1 in 3) whilst at Wigan.



This season : 26 wins from 28 league and cup games in charge of Leigh - one of the defeats a hotly-disputed 16-22 Cup loss to Catalan.

You kind of answer your own question. If Millward was the only one of the coaches you named available then maybe I'd be happy. As it is, Noble (more SL wins, more consistent, successful at more than one team) was an option. I think Millward has the potential to do better than Matterson, but Noble had the potential to be MUCH better.

The figures were taken from RLP - very rarely are these wrong but apologies if they are. Even so, it's an awful record.

I think Millward is a good fit for your attacking style

Depends what kind of football you want to watch. Do you still want a 'classy cas' ? I do.



I'd rather watch an Ian Millward-coached side than one of Noble's any day.



Incidentally, Millward's Saints beat Noble's Bulls in the 2001 Cup Final and 2002 Grand Final.

And your take on it now is?

Millward over Noble any day of the week. You might as well disband your U20's and U18's if Noble gets the job.

The difference being we now have an owner taking the club places, delivering promises. You have a chairman still feeding you the same old bull he has for years and years, signed a muppet of a coach, no new signings because the club is broke, and glasshoughton is still light years away

Enjoy the ride,we did.

Let's just wait and see who your coach will be, shall we? And who we will sign?

Although GH is probably more than light years away!!!!!