It'll be a tough game (I'm a Wigan fan) you've started to pick up last few weeks and what with Sam looking like he'll be out, Sean copping a ban, although imo we are better without him but with the injures we've got to our pack we need him, thankfully Nuuausala should make his debut which is good.

watched the Leeds game last Friday after I got home from Wigan and was quite impressed with you, Segeyaro definitely helped although he seems like he can only pass forward, sutcliffe looked dangerous at fullback, in fact he looks better than Hardaker in attack

I imagine the Wigan team will be

Sarginson
Tierney Gildart Charnley Manfredi
Williams Smith
Flower Powell Mossop
Isa Sutton
Tautai

Shorrocks Bretherton Nuuausala Davies/Shelford

O'Loughlin charged with Grade C for the high tackle that got him sent off at the weekend. Has an Early Guilty Plea available to use.

This will be a close game which i can see us winning, not that it means too much on the scheme of things. If Wigan are missing Tomkins and SOL then that majorly tips the advantage to us imo.

I'd prefer to start with mags and Lilley, we need a kicking game early on to make sure we don't keep getting pinned back.
With Burrow on the bench he can then cover hooker it half back.

Really hope Ferres is back and the forwards are ready for a grind of a game. We need them to match Wigan but also not allow them to force us into five drives and a kick.
We have better backs, should be trying to use them to go around Wigan, instead of bashing through them.

Will SoL be missing ? That was a very bad tackle

IIRC the EGP can only take it down a grade if he's charged with a C. So he's looking at a two match ban as standard, unless he manages to plead not guilty and wins.

Although frankly, if he gets away with knocking Chris Annakin out with a swinging arm we may as well get rid of the entire disciplinary system.

I think burrow did enough on Friday to say he should start in the halves (certainly haven't said that in a long time). He kept it pretty simple, put one nice kicks in to hall and I can only remember him running up his own backside once.

By far our worst period in the game was when Segeyaro came off, burrow went into dummy half and Lilley ended up as the lone half, this needs to be avoided at all costs IMO.

Ferres looked fit and well at last nights Ronnie's party for the kids

Were you there with Bart?

Will you guys not be trying out youngsters with this effectively being a dead rubber for you and the middle 8s round the corner? Not trolling, genuine question

No, we're going to hopefully ruin as many teams days as we can before being dumped into the middle 8's.

Lilley has to be dropped after his performance last week.

I agree he was poor but we looked better in terms of shape with an organiser out there, so its a tough call of who to start in the halves, we just need to make sure we play with two this time!

Keinhorst should start over Ablett and Achurch (or Ferres), he sured up our defines again when on last week, we need to pick players on form not reputation
Singleton was also good and could start at 13 over JJB, but is also useful as an impact player

Nah, we want to be the [i'going nowhere with nothing to play for, and then put's a spanner in the works of the trophy hunting team towards the end of the season' [/i team.

We used to encounter it many times and it was irritating.

Hopefully you'll be irritated on friday night, but i'm not holding my breath.

Wigan seemed to always beat us when they were rubbish so its time to return the favour

Surely depends on if McGuire is fit to return.....if not then Lilley has to play otherwise we'd be c0cking about with the balance again.



Think Singleton could possibly start at 13 again the way McDermott was praising him post match however I'd like to see us line up like this in the forwards.....(if Ferres is fit we know he'll be picked)

Galloway - Segeyaro - Garbutt
Ferres - Ablett
Delaney/JJB

Cuthbertson - Singleton - Delaney/JJB - Achurch/Keinhorst

That way we could interchange players more naturally.... - The two starting props go off after 20/25 mins for Singleton & Cuthbertson.
- toss of a coin who starts at 13 between the two workhorse players, interchange them after 25/30 mins so they don't do silly extended minutes.
- leaves a 2nd rower to interchange with the starters. Achurch offers more in attack, Keinhorst better defender and provides cover for the backs.

However we'll probably see McDermott do that weird style of one prop off after 20 mins, sub him back on after 26 mins.