Quote: SmokeyTA "I think we go as strong as we can. It's a world cup year not a building year. And to be honest there's not that many shirts up for grabs.
FB will be hardaker unless Tomkins gets back and has a great end of year.
Wings Hall and McGilveray own those shirts unless someone demands one off them
Watkins owns his and is looking dangerous at the moment. Sarginson probably has the other unless someone bolts
Halfback will be 2 of Gale, Widdop and Williams baring injury maybe space for someone to impress and get a back up role.
Props Graham, Burgii, Hill, Taylor, personally I think Walmsley will struggle with the speed against the top international sides but would be really useful against some of the lesser lights. Possibly space for 1 or 2
Hooker we will probably go with Roby, Houghton and Hodgson, I don't think there is anyone breaking those three unless Clarke has a great rest of year and looks the better impact option
Back row might be some space. Sam Burgess, is a given probably Whitehead and maybe Farrell too. But the rest are really up for grabs. Weatherman doesn't have a great deal of international experience and wire are struggling. O'loughlin can't get on the field and when he does he can't get a long run of games. Starts to look like a risk going in to a world cup. I have high hopes for Savelio and Ward but Savelios start to life at wire hasn't been all that impressive and Ward needs games.'"
Can see Joe Burgess pushing for a shirt. Greg Eden possibly aswell.
Only position for me which is up in the air is Centre. We've just got no quality there. As a Wigan & International fan I'm hoping Gildart makes a full recovery from his injury as he was putting down a huge marker at the start of the season to be thought of for international honours.
