Strange one this from a Wigan point of view, unless he's injured, he's head and shoulders better than Dudson and James.

Do you play Wire on monday? Perhaps being rested? Haven't seen Dudson play this season but James hasn't impressed.

We have Bradford on Monday, Dudson has been a bit of a liability

Ade Gardner and Clough would have played in this game if they would have been still here ?

(can Cloughy play against us on Monday?)

Cant the squads be changed? Maybe is a ploy by NB regarding Amor and Swift. I didn’t see Swift pick up an injury against Cas. Does St Pete have more info?

, but there are going to be a fair few that do. That's the nature of Easter. We're all in the same boat and no one gets an added advantage, which makes it fair."

Ah right mate. Strange one then.

LMS wasn't named in the squad last week and played at Cas, so the squad listings aren't necessarily accurate.

Having said that I don't think we'll see Amor on Friday not with the cup game next week. Brown probably doesn't want to take the risk.

I'd go with:

1. Jonny Lomax
2. Tommy Makinson
3. Jordan Turner
4. Josh Jones
26. Matty Dawson
6. Lance Hohaia
7. Luke Walsh
18. Alex Walmsley
9. James Roby
27. Greg Richards
11. Sia Soliola
15. Mark Flanagan
12. Jon Wilkin

8. Mose Masoe
10. Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook
17. Paul Wellens
23. Joe Greenwood

I'm banned from posting any team info, transfers etc. Dad's army laid the law down to me.

I see no reason to be a panic monkey about the 19 named. There is plenty in that team good enough to take on the goons. The back to me seem far better for Saints.

The young lads certainly manned up against Leeds, no reason why with less of them against a lesser team than Leeds they should not do it again.

A decent team, hopefully a decent outcome.

I see no reason to change my prediction of Saints 30 Wigan 14.

Wigan have not been blowing teams away. Just like Cas we will be a test for them.

wonder what the issue is with swift? unless its just squad rotation over easter

I'd doubt it's rotation. We gotta pick one game and go for it.

I would go:

Lomax
Makinson
Turner
Jones
Dawson
Lance
Walsh
Walmsley
Roby
Richards
Wilkin
Flanagan
Sia

Mose
Wellens
LMS
Greenwood

That should be more than capable of getting the 2 pts. Need to be defensively sound as we were at wire away and Leeds at home!

Where is this smugness coming from? A team missing four or five should be good enough to beat Wigan because we're so good?

It's the derby FFS. Wigan have won derbies with us at full strength and them decimated with injuries and that's with us having a better side than we've got now.

Who plays and who plays where doesn't mean a thing on Friday. It's 90% mentality and 10% ability. Kong will have whipped them up into their usual rabid frenzy and we've got to match that before the supposed superior ability becomes even slightly relevant.