It should be a cracking game, I'm really looking forward to it. Dunno whether to be pleased or not that Connor isn't playing; you never know whether he's going to be able to stay on the pitch.

I feel differently about this with Hull's injuries/suspensions. My first thought last week was that we'd probably end up losing this one. Even if you take the Clubb incident out of the equation, there was still a lot of needle when we played last time out, and so often in these situations the team who loses the first game goes on to win if they play again the week later.

With their lack of numbers in the forwards, I'd make Wigan slight favourites now, but it should still be a great game.

I think we've an excellent chance to win this one.
Connor will be a big miss for Hull FC. His replacement will be expecting our kicking game to concentrate on Jacko belting the ball as high as he can so it drops on top of their full back's head. The fb will then get tackled very hard by three or four forwards. That could take a lot of energy out of them trying to get out of their own 20-30 mtrs.

Although it has rained the ground will surely still be firm as it has been dry for weeks.
Our overall mobility and speed should see us through with hopefully a win.

I hope Hardaker has been practicing his goal kicking this week. The weather is looking pretty poor so potentially it could be a low scoring game (similar to last week maybe).

Sneyd knocks them over from the touchline with ease it seems these days. Missed a pretty easy one (for him) which ended up being the difference between the two teams.

Feeling slightly more confident than a few days ago with Ma'u and Reynolds back, although I wonder how fit they are, still have Wigan strong favourites.

Connor out is a blow, but with Connor Wynne we gain some pace and he is very strong and elusive. A bit nervous though so will be tested by your kicking game.

Hopefully a good and we are talking about the rugby this time.

Manfredi in for Clubb, only decision is do you play Manfredi and use Isa as a "middle" or give Clark a run, either way we're playing someone who hasn't had a proper game in months, not ideal for a knockout game.

I’d go

French
Manfredi
Hardaker
Farrell
Bibby
Hastings
Smith
Singleton
Powell
Partington
Smithies
Isa
Bateman

Shorrocks
Byrne
Bullock
Havard

I'd have Manfredi in instead of Clark too, so the same XIII. Having said that I'd keep Zack at FB for now, and put Bibby at centre. I know they had some joy by targeting French on the wing last time, but I'd keep going like that for a few weeks more to give it a proper chance before moving Zack to centre.

Could be a tricky one this. Bad weather, big pack who are riled up. Have Lam and the team learned lessons from last year's cup game v Leeds?

I suspect we will be as equally riled up.

I don’t think they are that big really and that’s positive for us. They’ll have Satae, Sao and Ma’u who all stand just over 6ft tall but are certainly not giants like Leeds threw at us, then they’ve got plenty of smaller forwards like Lane, Cator and Jack Brown who are under 6ft tall and very much in the mould of some of our young forwards like Smithies and Partington. I’d say we have the bigger pack overall with guys like Bullock, Singleton, Byrne and Havard. I could think of plenty of superleague packs that would be bigger than ours or Hulls.

If there’s any shred of truth in Clubbs defence/denial that is doing the rounds on social media (it’s probably fake mind) and the players believe it, then you could well be right.