Seems to me Murphy is being seen as defensive only but he does run hard with the ball and often looks like making the break. Agree Charnley is quick but you're assuming he's in the clear when he gets the ball - if we do the job properly he'll have Murphy in his face and Murphy is strong. Don't really want to see Ukuma playing he didn't look fit to me and could well be a major weak link on Saturday, but another month down the line could be a different story. Seen suggested team showing Leroy on wing - hope we don't fall in to NB's habit of changing multiple positions to cover one, leave Leroy in the centre and change one for one. Tough one this week and am sure we can rise to it but let's not have doom and gloom if we don't get the result!!

The only way to get him fit is to play him. I cannot see he would play last week and then be dropped if fitness is the issue.

As for Leroy i have suggested in the past he play as a winger to mark Pat Richards on the kicks to the wings.

To me is a good tactic so i would be ok with it. Murphy and Wardle at centre IMHO makes us stronger on the back line defensively.

Surely our plan is to beat Wigan in the forwards as they have a much smaller pack than us ??? The Saints game plan will come out again they'll play Murphy on the wing but swap on high kick tackles with Leroy to cover the Richards threat looks to have some sense to me.

Man for man they only have Tompkins whose significantly better than our man in the same position but we have the best four props to balance that. If we back foot their pack it doesn't matter as much about the backs providing we don't keep missing tackles.

Looks a very strong team, Wigan will put three into the tackle and try and slow the game down, ala their game against Wire. With our size and speed in the forwards we need to make sure they don't get a chance to dominate this area.

This will be one hell of a game and it's only week 3, bring it on.

Charnley, Farrell, O'Loughlin!!!!!!!. They would all walk into our team IMHO

Great tackle that by Cording.The London player looked like he was certain to score then Cording came from nowhere and stopped him dead.

got to agree.

as for mullally coming in for taai... wouldnt be surprised to see that.. not a bad option.. cant start with taai just not played enough ...ok needs to play but off the bench

think we played 32 games last season cup/playoff included so he missed 7. not a high rate but still missed a fair few to injury..

He played one more than jerry last year.

yeh and less than cudjoe.

poor jerry was injured most of the season too

good that we have competition in the backs now so they dont have to be risked

Hopefully smurph will see this as his big opportunity and play out of his skin.

I am confident Murphy will take his chance well. He is an excellent player and gives us options all across the back line

I am confident Murphy will take his chance well. He is an excellent player and gives us options all across the back line

agree, never let us down before when hes come in, would like to see him get a run of games and show us how good he is.

Think he did let us down at Widnes but so did some far more senior players