Since then, they have finished a miserable season in 11th place and will be in National League 1 next year, unless the winners of that competition are refused promotion. In my view he was not guilty of that, so it’s very, very harsh. I will have to sit down with Terry and Wigan and see where we go from here.” The Cronulla full-back David Peachey has confirmed his intention to join Widnes next season, despite the club being relegated from Super League Widnes announced the signing of Peachey in mid-season. His original suspension was already the longest imposed for foul play in the Super League era; he will now, depending on the timetable of next season, miss 12 or 13 games. “Terry is shocked and devastated,” his solicitor, Richard Cramer, said. “I think we proved that he did not lead with his arm in the Long incident.

He also failed to convince the appeals panel that he was not guilty of an incident in the same match that left Sean Long with a fractured cheekbone.
Worse still for one of the game’s more controversial players, he has now been banned until 15 April next year. Newton failed in his attempt to have his three-match ban for a high tackle on St Helens’ Lee Gilmour reduced. The Wigan and Great Britain hooker Terry Newton will be out of action for even longer than he expected after failing in his appeal against a 10-match suspension. He’ll put some things up on the noticeboard – little captions to make you think about things he obviously thinks about as a manager He tries to learn from the best.

It’s a different side of him which he tries to pass on to us.”I remember, at the start of the season, he showed us a video of the American football film Any Given Sunday. The coach has the players in the dressing-room and he builds them up and motivates them and it gives you a feeling in the stomach that you want to have.”That was a build-up to the first game and even though we were beaten we all knew what he was meaning and we saw his outlook on the game.”. There is very rarely a game goes by that we don’t score.”Whittaker revealed some of his manager Mowbray’s secrets which include motivational quotes and a trip to the video shop.The player explained: “He reads a lot of books, a lot of people’s autobiographies and brings in people’s quotes. “We can definitely score,” the 21-year-old said.”We’ve got dangerous players such as Derek Riordan, Ivan Sproule and Garry O’Connor all scoring and even Michael Stewart from midfield at the weekend They are all forward-thinking players for us. He gets on the ball, he’s composed with it and he can pick great passes so it’s good he’s back for Thursday.”Hibernian have their eyes on a place in the group stages after a goalless draw with the Ukraine outfit at Easter Road.While Dnipro drew yet another blank, in a 0-0 draw with Chornomorets on Sunday, the Edinburgh side warmed up with an impressive 3-1 win at Fir Park.The third-placed Scottish Premier League side have hit the net 14 times in eight matches – including a 3-0 win at Ibrox – and Whittaker is confident of more goals.

He was just unlucky to get such a bad injury.”He missed playing but now he’s back, he realises he’s been lucky and is enjoying being back in. Since returning to the team, he has gotten better and better with every game.”He’s come on and brought a different look to the team because he’s such a great player. I went over to see how he was and he said it wasn’t as bad as he first thought. I was pleased in that respect.”When he first got into the team he never really got dropped. He got his chance under Bobby [Williamson], took it and had a great season.