Apparently he's going to be fit and ready to play in the next two weeks.

At the moment our two current wingers are delivering the goods. Burgess has recovered from a shaky start and Manfredi is playing out of his skin. That poses a real question of what happens to Josh when he returns?

Josh has been out of sorts recently but he's still tied to a long term deal and is realistically a dead certain to start next season alongside Manfredi. On top of that he's a top draw winger on his day (not seen it in a while though).

Does the fact that he's an excellent long term option override the short term benefits of keeping Burgess in the side?

Personally I hope the competition for places gives Charnley the fire he needs to regain form. On his day I believe he's a top 3 SL winger. I'd put him on loan at Workington for a couple of games and then have him straight back in over Joe. I do like Burgess but the fact he's not here next season weighs against him imo.

Either way if all three are under immense pressure to perform it can only be good for Wigan.

He can't play right now that's for sure. Manfredi looks top quality - what will he be like with some regular game time?

Charnley is going to have his work cut out to get his place back.
Burgess and Manfredi are scoring tries regularly and playing very well too.
When Lockers returns Shaun Wane will have to "rotate" his pack to accomodate him.
When Josh returns maybe SW will do the same with his backs.

Manfredi and Burgess are both undroppable right now IMO.

competition will do all of them good & keep them on their toes, but there has to be some rotation or one or the other or all will either be completely knackered or so out of touch it'll be embarrassing. Can't keep just farming them out to Cumbria

Could Josh play left centre? Pretty sure he's played in the centres before. Sarge looked useful in attack last night, but only that, and in defence - whoaa!

Sarge's defence last night was still ten times better than Charnley's has been.

Have you seen Josh's defence? I'd leave Sarge there!
Sarginson's competition will come from Thornley when he returns.

Sarge missed a couple of important ones last night but I've no concerns over him long term. He just had an off day - can see him having a big game next week.

He definitely shouldn't play next week. But I'm assuming that Wane will give either Budgie or Dom a rest against Hull KR at home.

Playing Josh at centre instead of Sarge is one of the worst ideas I've EVER heard.

He's lost his place.

He'll need an injury or a loss of form to get back in. As and when he does he needs to play as Josh Charnley can and not serve up the half hearted displays that he has at times these past couple if years.

If he does that he'll be our best winger and the other two are brilliant so that's scary.

Is that not almost the same situation? We are dropping a guy who is a long term Wigan player who in 2016 will probably be a starter. Sarginson is also at a key development stage of his career.

No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the Elephant in the room is that Burgess is leaving us. There are very good players potentially being dropped to accommodate him and he has less than 6 months left with us.

Can we risk alienating Charnley or Sarginson?

Good point why risk alienating Charnley or anyone else and play a guy who has already decided he is off at the end of the season.............may be harsh but that's life i guess

On reflection, yep. Josh is crap in defence.

You're not alienating anyone.

The culture at Wigan is that you have to earn your place (albeit some players have been handed a place due to a lack of recruitment).

It goes against everything that has been built up at the club to put Charnley straight back in to the team when he's fit. He has to win his spot back.