Fullback is a specialist position...so is centre, and so is a winger. They're all difficult positions to play and some top quality players have the skill set and intelligence to play in all of them as you've used as examples above. Who's to say what position is hardest...different positions require a certain set of skills. You could have a fantastic scrum half but stick him on wing or in the centres and he won't look as good...every position is vitally important. What's the point in having a brilliant half back/hooker/full back etc when you're winger's letting try's in on his side and bombing chances

As soon as you disrespect the wing position you start to lose matches.

McDonnell has confirmed on his instagram that he has snapped his achilles and will face a long lay off. Surgery tomorrow.

Unbelievable!

Yeah, you would have to say it's at least 6 months.

Given Lomax is out for 9 months, it looks like it'll have repurcussions on us not only this season but next season aswell.

I don't know what we've done, but we've had no luck whatsoever with injuries in the past 2 or 3 seasons at all.

It's a credit to the club that we've still picked up trophies or been in contention for them.

It's a complete joke. I've been playing The Witcher 3 on the Xbox a lot recently and I think this bears all the hallmarks of a curse inflicted by a wraith. We're going to have to use our witcher senses to find what it is binding the curse to the team. We'll start with some blood letting on the Wigan populace, just in case.

Christ on a bike...

Any news on Swift? If this carries on, Ade Gardner will be pulling a shirt on.

Bailey
Fleming
Percival
Turner
Dawson
Burns
Walsh
Amor
Roby
Walmsley
Wilkin
Greenwood
LMS

Masoe
Richards
Savelio
Jones

Still enough to finish in the top 3, and who can write us off for another Grand Final?

Backs look awful.

Doesn't have to be that bad:

1 - Percival
2 - Swift
3 - Turner
4 - Jones
5 - Dawson
6 - Burns
7 - Walsh

We should bring Locke in if we've got the cap and quota room. There is also the possibility of Wellington or Grace coming in. I personally don't see the point of them scoring easy tries every week in the academy set up? How will that develop them? We can manage it and if they are struggling take them out. Both seem physically capable to me and have the core skills. The rest comes with experience.

Biggest risk with this is losing to Widnes. That's a big possibility now.

True mate. When Vea gets back though we'll have a decent set of forwards on the back of two quality halfbacks so we're still a threat.

We are looking to bring a fullback in asap and already enquired about one player on loan for the season.

Decent player or a Haworth type of standard?

Well that's quite exciting. Obviously Locke is floating about but apart from him, who's going to release a decent fullback at this time of the season with so much to play for still?

He is a good player but not a world beater.

Who needs a world beater? Good sounds good.