Hamlin had an awesome game on his debut and Wane then says thats not the way he should be playing. Wouldnt blame him for feeling a little demoralised after that.

Id back him to play well on Thursday.

Added further weight to the theory that SW doesn’t want forwards to make yards after contract but would rather they hit the deck quickly to get a speedy play the ball doesn’t it? I thought it was really refreshing to see Hamlin run the way he did but SW knows more about coaching a RL team than I do!

Yes he did indeed have a very good debut against a Kr side utterly inept that afternoon how much stock can really give to that game as he hasn’t done much at all in his (few)games since?

It must be tough feeding off scraps in fairness. I’m not sure Ben Barba would’ve lit up superleague with two spells of 10/15 mins in the past two months.

Wanes comments on him after Easter Monday painted a picture I felt and it was pretty clear at that point that he wouldn’t play much of a part in our season unless injuries/suspensions kicked in (as they have done this week but I still don’t think he’ll play).

My son was speaking to a player he knows and that particular player couldn't understand why Hamlin isn't getting any game time!!
Unsurprisingly people have their own views and nothing in this world is agreed by everyone.

Our pack is far too little as it is and to put Hamlin in if you have Bateman, Farrell and Isa in the backrow would be bordering on the ludicrous.
Having said that after SWs comments after the HKR then maybe Hamlin has been demoralised and he has stopped performing in training and to be honest who could blame him after such vocal and specific comments by SW.
I believe that part of the issues in the club are related to certain players can get away with anything without comment but others (mainly the young guns) get publicly named for errors which causes unsurprisingly some unrest.
Personally I don't understand why we recruited Hamlin if are not going to give him some 1st team game time.

If ever there was a time for a team to show what it's made of and come out fighting, it's this one.

But another heartless show like last weekend, and it's difficult to see past a home win.

No Flower or Tautai this week, could be another tough night!!

What makes you think they wont play?

Wane has said they’ve minor injuries in his press conference and will miss out along with Sutton and Joel. We’ve got Sarginson, Navarette, Hamlin and Field coming in so presumably will line up-

Tomkins
Davies Sarginson Gildart Marshall
Williams Powell
Navarette Leuluai Clubb
Bateman Farrell Lockers

Isa Hamlin Field Escare

Interesting that Fifita's decided to shoot his mouth off ahead of tomorrows game.

“I don’t mind the players that they’ve got, just the grubbiness of blokes like Clubb and Flower.”

rlhttps://www.seriousaboutrl.com/wakefield-prop-david-fifita-wigan-grubbiness-11642/rl

I suppose we're fair game for this kind of stuff after last weekend, all the chip-on-the-shoulders b******s will be coming out of the woodwork.

I'm more concerned about the ineffectivness of blokes like Clubb and Flower. The latter has done nothing since his infamous suspension and Clubb has no rep for being a hardcase.

Still ... this kind of trash talk is nothing new to Wigan. I'm sure they'll have more important stuff to discuss this week.

if there's any grubbiness its the Wakefield express rag,
I'm surprised they even managed talk to the players it never supports the club and is anti Trinity to the core, always looks for ways to run the club down and wouldn't surprise me if this another way,
its not even fit to wipe my arris with it,
only up to date news is births, birthdays and deaths all other is copy and paste of other sites

One of the Fafita brothers talking about people being grubs.

I’m done.

Ah come on. This is the way to build up games, bums on seats (ok, I know we havn't many seats). We need more of this talk, add a bit of spice to games instead of "hopefully we can get a result" type of garbage.

In fairness you’re correct. The games need all the hype they can generate at the minute and things like this are fair game.

What could’ve been a run of the mill game two weeks ago now looks very interesting for all sorts of reasons.