Head Coach Shaun Wane has today named a strong 23 man squad for Saturday's last pre-season work out away to Warrington Wolves, 3pm kick off.

The Testimonial game for Wolves long serving forward Ben Westwood will see last years League Leaders' Shield Winners take on the Challenge Cup holders.

The Wigan squad includes Lee Mossop who missed the game at Salford with illness and fellow prop Epalahame Lauaki who has recovered from injury. The Warriors will though be without Skipper Sean O'Loughlin (calf), Chris Tuson (dead leg) and Harrison Hansen (wrist)

Wigan Warriors Squad;

Jack Murphy, Josh Charnley, Darrell Goulding, Jack Hughes, Pat Richards, Blake Green, Matty Smith, Lee Mossop, Logan Tomkins, Paul Prescott, Liam Farrell, Anthony Gelling, Ben Flower, Gil Dudson, Epalahame Lauaki, Michael McIlorum, Greg Burke, Iain Thornley, Scott Taylor, Dom Crosby, Sam Powell, Tom Spencer, Lewis Tierney.

Warrington Wolves Squad;

Ryan Atkins, Lee Briers, Garreth Carvell, Mike Cooper, Ben Currie, Rhys Evans, Simon Grix, Ben Harrison, Micky Higham, Chris Hill, Brett Hodgson, James Laithwaite, Tyrone McCarthy, Joel Monaghan, Michael Monaghan, Adrian Morley, Richie Myler, Gareth O’Brien, Stefan Ratchford, Chris Riley, Ben Westwood, Rhys Williams, Paul Wood.

The referee for the game is Ben Thaler.

No pre-season for Sam then.

He's chasing a bike up a mountain.

He's chasing a bike up a mountain.

Wane did say in an interview I read (not sure where now) that he was using other options in pre-season to prepare for Sam's inevitable exit. Not sure it'll make too much difference to how he performs anyway.

cant see but wire wining this one, hope i am wrong,

I applaud Wane for giving Murphy game time but surely he could hae brought him off the bench rather than giving Sam no preseason. I wonder if his knee is still a concern?

Two things jump out at me from those squad lists-

1- We'll probably take a bit of a beating tomorrow. Wire look at full strength whereas we're missing 4 or 5 players.

2- Wires squad has so much more depth then ours and highlights a massive weakness in our squad. Pre Lenagan we used to go in to seasons with a decent 17 but with no back up after that other then from youngsters. We had fixed that up in recent times but it looks to have gone to pot with these departures.

The club has to keep an eye out for a couple of signings IMO or we run the risk of over burdening too many youngsters too soon.

I have only just realised what you meant with the bike and mountain statement, I had to watch the video twice as well to realise he was in Mallorca.
But I am only commenting once.

How much are the tickets tomorrow?

Can't see anything on the Wire website.

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=543006&tsmp=1359144602&start=20 Lovely people over on their forum, deary me.

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=543006&tsmp=1359144602&start=20 Lovely people over on their forum, deary me.