Seeing as it is the off season I see no harm in starting a separate thread for this one.

Obviously you have been in vicious form lately so I am interested to hear your thoughts on tomorrow evenings match. Earlier in the season you openly did a big wedge on Wigan when they embarrassed themselves against St Helens (I also made a big mistake on the same game). I am feeling like I am about to fall into the same trap once again as I am seeing a big 13/8 about Wigan and I am thinking this is one to get stuck into.

Your thoughts?

If we look at the last 10 meetings between these sides, we could generally summarize that the winner will probably achieve a double digit margin.

Wigan 12, Huddersfield 30 (SLR24, 9/8/13)
Huddersfield 22, Wigan 10 (SLR3, 16/2/13)
Huddersfield 12, Wigan 32 (SLR14, 18/5/12)
Wigan 16, Huddersfield 20 (SLR1, 5/2/12)
Wigan 46, Huddersfield 12 (SLR18, 25/6/11)
Huddersfield 6, Wigan 20 (SLR6, 18/3/11)
Wigan 16, Huddersfield 18 (SLR25, 15/8/10)
Huddersfield 30, Wigan 38 (SLR14, 16/5/10)
Huddersfield 10, Wigan 28 (SLR13, 2/5/10) - at Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Huddersfield 48, Wigan 16 (SLR27, 13/9/09)

Huddersfield have won 3 out of the last 4 at Wigan and won by 12-18 points twice this year.

So Wigan would need a three try swing if they were to win.

For me, Wigan would need to be going with a Pack like this to stand up to the Giants:
O'Loughlin, Lauaki, Mossop, Hansen or Farrell, Taylor and McIlorum

I would not want to go with any of Flower, Tuson, Dudson, Lloyd, Crosby and Burke as starters

Wigan 19-man squad: Charnley, Crosby, Dudson, Farrell, Flower, Gelling, Green, Greenwood, Hansen, Hughes, McIlorum, Mossop, A. Powell, Richards, Smith, Taylor, Thornley, L. Tomkins, S. Tomkins.

But Wigan will have to - they are missing O'Loughlin and Lauaki and I think they are being dominated in the forwards in the past 10 games or so through lack of size, guys who are robust rather than powerful

Huddersfield 19-man squad: Grix, Cudjoe, Wardle, McGillvary, Brough, Robinson, Crabtree, Lunt, Kopczak, Ferres, Faiumu, Lawrence, Patrick, Chan, Ta'ai, Murphy, Ferguson, Blackmore, Wood.

This looks a winning squad to me, but the value is not too great at 2/3 on...

Let me check my phone on the way back for better markets fella

We'd need some value to place our stakes - I will update by 630 and do more analysis.

Cheers
Mark

I have gone for:

Giants -4 second half 11/8 Ladbrokes
Wigan HT winner 11/8 Ladbrokes

£25 on Giants, £12.50 Wigan

I'll now look at man of match

Mcilorum and Crabtree both 20/1

But want to check how many minutes they on field

I am on £5.75 for Grix at 20/1 and £6.75 Charnley at 16/1 for man of match

Fullbacks often get man of match in major games

Charnley 2 or 3 tries will get him close,he has 39 this year

A Dutch bet about 9/1 for both

I've done Wigan to be leading at h/t too. Up the Pies!

A penalty on 39 minutes was most unwelcome to draw Giants back in to the tie at 8-8. They didn't look like breaking the line. 7/4 was good odds for two similar teams.
Now need Giants to win the second half by a converted try. I think Wigan will tire. Let's hope so.

A penalty on 39 minutes was most unwelcome to draw Giants back in to the tie at 8-8. They didn't look like breaking the line. 7/4 was good odds for two similar teams.
Now need Giants to win the second half by a converted try. I think Wigan will tire. Let's hope so.

I've backed Wigan to win after that first half. 11/8 seemed big after a very even half.

If Thornley manages to hold on to the ball once or twice it would help though!

Had a load more on at 7/4 with Skybet a couple of hours before kick off. They don't owe me anything now, especially after rolling over against Leeds last week

Great call Dave - Huddersfield were the best side for 20 minutes but Wigan made them look horrible after that.

I thought Josh Charnley could have been man of the match, he was great in defense and attack, oh well.

Let us hope my dosh on Melbourne (who have beaten Souths 18 times out of 21) retrieves a few quid back or I am on bread and water

I think we saw why Brough isnt an international last night

Storms disallowed try at 14-6 was an awful and match defining decision