It'll be a pretty young backline but there is plenty of experience and power in the pack. Fingers crossed everyone comes through ok and we get a good look at the new lads and the younger players.

Dupree benched 100kg 22 times. Most at the club.

Looking forward to seeing how he goes this year. Looking at the forwards they all look lean and probs can do a good stint. Imagine we’ll have Byrne and Harvard starting with a rotation of 2-3 bigger props on the bench to punch holes; Mago, Cooper, Dupree and Thompson. Possibly Thompson will do a stint at 13 as they’ll want him on the field as much as possible

Don’t see much of a difference in the photos on Wigan socials with Eseh from when he was at Trinity. Always had the raw frame and physique to make a cracking prop. Certainly nothing drastic though I’m sure he will continue to build muscle the age he is now and likely the training from Wigan.

Completely disagree he looked like a big lad when he was at Trinity with a very good frame on which to build, he now looks to have matured a bit as you would expect at his age but also added significant muscle.

The downside is that all that muscle is more weight to carry but also needs “feeding” with oxygen during high intensity so it may impact on his ability to play big minutes in the early stages of his Wigan career.

Sounds like Leeming's up for it coming 1st in the latest beep test

Will this be on Wigan Tv?

Yes. The club confirmed earlier this and Hull are on live.

Some interesting things in this article. Not least that Tyler Dupree can bench press 27 1/2 stone!



Paddy Mago looking lean but tipping the scales at nearly 19 stone.

Remember the days when we used to have an underpowered pack?



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The interesting thing for me is not who is playing, but who's not playing.
Field, MIski, Keighran, Marshall, French, Smith, Cooper, Havard, Farrell, Isa and Nsemba.

There really is a lot of strength in depth in the squad this year, especially if the likes of Eckersley, Douglas, Farrrimond, Hill etc really kick on.

Very true. We really could do with Eckersley, in particular, kicking on as I think centre is the only area where depth is a possible issue. Wardle and Keighran both seem very durable but, Eckersley aside, I don't see any specialist cover. Isa and Farrell have both played there quite effectively but it's more a square pegs, round holes solution.

In fairness, Eckersley needs game time so carrying an extra 'first team ready' centre would probably have been counter productive. I really feel Eckersley is the real deal and to stifle his chances of first team action could have been a risk.

Sloppy first half, Wakefield the much better side. Our contact in defence looked poor. Bouncing off tackles.

All practice for the lads on both side. Need a footing in the game

What's the over/under on floodlight failures for the 2nd half?

I think they’ve fitted security lights instead of floodlights.

What a farce

At least they’ve got a new stand!

Never seen anything like it.

What a joke.

Tin pot club.

Bad performance from us, but I really hope Kendall's shocking performance isn't an indication of what's coming from the officials in 2024.

Well, that's the end of that!

It was very obvious that we didn't have many senior players out there.
Wakey were worth their 22-12 lead.
Thought Sumner was good for us a full back, Walters looks very good indeed.
An imbalanced performance from an imbalanced team.
I wonder who Powell will want from us at his place on DR.

No need to be an a$$hole about it
Lots of building work gone on, it can happen but shouldn’t

No you're right, we should just make excuses for you instead, just like you've been doing for the last 20 years.

The definition of a tin pot club.

Wasn’t great from a Wigan point of view.

Our much lauded pack got bullied at times by Trinity.

No need to panic but lots of work to be done.

Yeah, good luck with it because you are at least trying to improve the ground. I remember when Wigan "opened " their new floodlights in the 1960's against Bradford. They failed during the game.


Good luck for the season.

Lack of intensity throughout really but no concerns from my perspective - friendlies are just a case of getting re-adjusted.

I think with the lights going out at least 14/15 times it was like the RL was priming us with what it will be like moving forward with the new rules -stop start stop start stop start etc etc.

to be honest we only had,Marshy,Harry,Faz,Field,Miski,Isa,Bevan,Havard,Cooper,Nsemba,Keighran missing.

Nothing to worry methinks.