They are massively overachieving as a result of the team being packed with Wigan born lads who give it absolutely everything. Wane is exactly the coach they need.

We should be confident of beating them as we have the superior playing resources but their spirit and determination worries me.

Agree. The other concern is that when Wigan played their expansive game when at 12 men against us we had no answer. Oh well makes for an interesting Saturday.

For the last 20 minutes of that game they deviated from their game plan and started to throw the ball around and off load at every opportunity and it all came off. I am not to sure that that will be allowed to happen again.

You know what I berated TS for saying the Wigan loss would galvanise and help us, but that game does seem to have given us the boot up the ass we needed at the right stage of the season.

It seems to have made us an 80 minute team which is an good thing, we've won the second half the past 2 weeks after switching off the previous 4 games. We'll need to be at our best to finally win the big prize but I would like to think Wigan will as well.

Personally id have Sandow on the bench if he is 80%. Could be a game changer that we need if we are struggling, and Clark could easily do 80 mins. I hear Mr Dwyer has been a bit greedy in his contract negotiations with Mr Smith.........

www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... nd_Bailey/ Looks like Ryan is fit and available for Saturday and Chris Sandow having a fitness test in a couple of days. The question you have to ask yourself if you were TS, is that is the gamble worth it on undoubtedly an under cooked player. We have fallen foul before in this final with bringing back injured players. I would definitely stay with Dec Patton in the halves.

www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/spo ... nd_Bailey/ Looks like Ryan is fit and available for Saturday and Chris Sandow having a fitness test in a couple of days. The question you have to ask yourself if you were TS, is that is the gamble worth it on undoubtedly an under cooked player. We have fallen foul before in this final with bringing back injured players. I would definitely stay with Dec Patton in the halves.

well, would we be ballsy enough to put sandow in the 19 at the expense of another fitter player option to keep them on their toes?

Difficult choices. I think I would keep Patton, particularly as he is a good goal kicker and it could easily come down to goals on Saturday. He has certainly put himself about in the last few games and made some good kicks on the last tackle. I have the suspicion that Sandow would get smothered out of the game by Wigan as he will not be match fit. But I would swap Bailey for Philbin I think. He is a lot bulkier and good in defence.

I agree with the Sandow concerns. I think his weapons will be somewhat nullified by the Wigan smother defence. Patton is much stronger in the defensive line than Sandow also.

Bailey will probably be brought in for Philbin. I think we will need that bit of mongrel if things start getting tasty if they start playing Wigan football if/when they are down. I do think Joe is worth another contract and will definitely be one for the future.

If Sandow is fit he got to play for me , he destroyed wigan at the DW earlier in the season and can come up with match winning plays

Not having a back on the bench cost us badly in 2013. I'd put Bailey on the bench for Philbin and sandow for Smith but only if he passes the fitness test. If we are losing with 30 to go we can send sandow on against a tiring defence where he can hopefully get us back in to it. Or as equally plausible he can step on if one of our backs picks up an injury so we can shuffle the pack and still function as an attacking unit.

2 backs on the bench?
Toby King
George King
Sandow
Bailey

After Salford's fairytale finish, I'm guessing a last minute 35 meter drive from Bailey, a quick PTB and Sandow spins out a long pass for Lineham to touchdown in the corner to level it, before Patton scores the winning conversion on the hooter...

Well to be fair, Toby coming off the bench as a backrower, loose, he's done bloody well. I've been meaning to start a thread on him. I definitely think he can be something special, he's got a cracking head on him and since getting a run in the team he's looked more than a shirt filler, making some good attacking options.

Just a bit naive in defence at centre