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Manfredi straight swap for Charnley

Right decision as he has been poor for a while now, he seems to be lacking the desire that the other 2 have.

Massive credit to him also for speaking so honestly about his issues with form at the moment. There is a slight undertone of "I'm not getting the service" however good players and wingers make things happen, he used to be able to but it's simply not there at the moment.

Agreed

To be fair to him, he isn't and won't get the service, with JT as his centre. Maybe it would be worth swapping Tomkins and Sarginson round, playing at left centre JT would automatically straighten the line as he is so right handed.

I'd go with:

Hampshire
Manfredi
Tomkins
Sarginson
Burgess

Williams
Smith

Mossop
Micky
Crosby
Bateman
L Farrell
Lockers

Flower
Tautai
Powell
C Farrell

Salford 19 man squad......

Rangi Chase, Mason Caton-Brown, Michael Dobson, Niall Evalds, Theo Fages, Darrell Griffin, George Griffin, Josh Griffin, Harrison Hansen, Weller Hauraki, Liam Hood, Greg Johnson, Adrian Morley, Cory Paterson, Junior Sau, Lama Tasi, Scott Taylor, Logan Tomkins, Jordan Walne.

Getting back to somewhere near full strength, with the obvious exceptions of Locke and BJB. Our 17 might look something like....

Niall Evalds

Mason Caton-Brown
Junior Sau
Josh Griffin
Greg Johnson

Rangi Chase
Michael Dobson/Theo Fages

Darrell Griffin
Logan Tomkins/Theo Fages
Scott Taylor

Harrison Hansen
Cory Paterson

Jordan Walne

Interchange
Liam Hood/Logan Tomkins
Lama Tasi
Adrian Morley
Weller Hauraki

All depends what Harris wants to do at 7 & 9 and whether he thinks Dobson is up to starting after a couple of months out. 18 years and counting since our last win at the pie dome so just hoping we put up a decent effort!

I agree with this. I'd even like to see Josh moved to centre with Manfredi outside of him.

Or, as stated the 3 wingers; one of them moved to FB.

Have to disagree.

For me it's another one of those double standard moments from SW.

Charnley is out of form but he's also had a significant number of injuries go against him. He needs game time to pull through this patch. That's no less than what Budgie got at the start of the season when he was off the boil. Lockers, whilst not as bad as Charnley, hasn't ripped up trees since his return. It's understood that he needs time to find form but the same isn't offered to Charnley.

Williams & Smith have down right stunk at points this season but both seem immune from SW axe?

Hampshire had a bad night in Catalan and was rightfully dropped for the Leeds game- will SW now do the same for Bowen who gifted Saints two tries last week?

Wane has his favourites who are undoubtedly treated differently to others in the squad.

In Manfredi and Burgess you have 2 in form wingers. Manfredi has done nothing at all to deserve being dropped. They have both earned their shirts.

Dropping one of them for Charnley simply would not be right. Josh has had a chance to claim a shirt in Manfredi's absence and he has not come close.

The pressure is now on Dom and Joe to perform if they don't Josh will get another chance if they do he will have to be patient and rightfully so.

Mamfredi had form before he was injured.

Josh has had what 5 games? Hardly the run he needs

To automatically assume SW is at fault here could be a mistake. We simply don't know the background to this.

I wish we could field the Josh of old, but there's been no sign of him for quite a while. I appreciate he's had injury troubles, but that interview he gave to the MEN, in which he describes himself as being at a crossroads in his Wigan career, can't have done him too many favours with the coaching staff. It maybe he's just being honest, but it also sounds a bit like attempted blackmail to me. Difficult to judge where his head is at present, but if Manfredi's firing on all cylinders again then it would be very unfair to drop him anyway.

If you read Charnley's M.E.N column he was quite clearly called into Wane's office and given a telling off for the Saints game and think that is totally unjustified. Sarge made a mess of it ending up throwing a stupid pass (if its what I think it is for) and I think Charnley has carried the can.

If so this is wrong. Not only was it not his fault this isn't being dropped for loss of form but is scapegoating by Wane and he's gone for the wrong player anyway (not that he should be going for any one player - the [iteam[/i was poor).

Here is the linkhttps://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/wigan-warriors-career-crossroads-admits-9470925rl

He's got no centre and from that in my view is the only player to suffer for the loss v Saints. I think Wane is doing a fine job of alienating the player and destroying what confidence he has left.

This should have been a "redeem yourself week" selection-wise in my view not one to drop a single player (for something not his fault) because the entire team was rubbish the week before.

But you can't drop kids because it ruins their confidence, right?