Facing up to the winners of Leigh/Salford was always my preferred choice. I'm just glad of the week off after watching those 4 sides knock lumps out of each other. Plus Josh Charnley wont be playing and their squad isnt that deep.

Their main strike player is out,they do have some outstanding players Ipape,Lam,Mulhern etc but we are at home and have more outstanding players French,Wardle,Marshy,Field etc etc.Put it this way I would be more shocked if we lost than if we won.

Saying that it should be a war of attrition a bit like the last 2 playoff games.
Looking forward to this with same amount of excitement as with worry,should be a good one.

Control Ipape we will be comfortable.

Easier said than done the way he’s playing at the moment.

They won't lose loads in the grand scheme of things with Hardaker and Hanley at wing/centre in some order and O'Donnell back in for Halton.

We need to control their front row. Ipape is outstanding, as is Amone and Mulhern is playing out of his skin. Do that and there is too much pace in the Wigan side for them.

10k sold before Leigh's tickets have gone on sale, should be a bumper crowd!

Hope you're right but looking at the ticket map I'd guesstimate 5/6k tops so far, the south/east are looking very sply populated

Just going off Wigan's social media post this morning, can only assume it is accurate.

It'll pick up over the week just like it did against Hull KR last year and be a respectable crowd but Wiganers do seem to have a habit of giving semi-finals a miss, be it Challenge Cup or SL. Always frustrating when a playoff game has a poorer turnout than the equivalent league game. Important the fans get behind the team this week and give them the support they deserve.

He misses a lot of tackles but is good with the ball in hand.

I'm glad he's okay but Charnley will be a massive loss for Leigh. Worth at least a try in any match.

Hit Hanley hard early on and he will go quiet too.

He used to….he’s really improved regards that this season particularly as the season goes on.

On current form he on my opinion is the best player in SL going into the finals series.

He missed 9 tackles on Friday.

Harry should be practicing his spiral bombs because Moylan doesn't want to know anything about catching a kick that's dropping from any kind of height

Jai Field and Kaide Ellis being shown in the stands at Old Trafford on Sky to advertise Saturday's game was definitely not something I was expecting.

They're always a bit misleading the missed tackle stats for me. If it was a guy sitting in the line, waiting for attackers to run at him, like a halfback would usually do, then that would be worrying but guys like Micky Mac and Morgan Knowles miss loads and it's because they're trying to get off their line and put shots on. I'd imagine most of the Ipape misses were because of that and had very little baring on Leigh then completing the tackle.

Plenty of other targets for Wigan though. Get traffic going at Lam and O'Brien and chase hard on Moylan and get him thinking about things. He doesn't look fully fit to me and is nervous taking kicks and running the ball in.