Looking very skinny in the outside backs dept, give Halsall and Hanley a run on the left edge with Bibby and Manfredi on the right, at least there's a bit of pace there, at the very least I hope Lam has learned Shorrocks isn't and never will be a three-quarter

for me, they would get torn apart. one of them with Farrell would probably be ok

Please no. We would get slaughtered defensively

I'd go:

FB 3. Hardaker
RW 2. Manfredi
RC 12. Farrell
LC 11. Isa
LW 22. Bibby
SO 20. Smith
SH 31. Hastings
P 8. Singleton
H 9. Powell
P 10. Bullock
SR 15. Smithies
SR 13. Bateman
LF 14. Partington

S 7. Leuluai
S 19. Byrne
S 21. Havard
S 23. Clark

It's a 17 set up to do a boring job and grind out a win to be honest. If we were playing against a lesser side then I would be more inclined to give Halsall and Pearce-Paul a run in the two centre spots and try to play a bit more attractive rugby, but this one calls for all the defensive skill and hard yards we can muster IMO. The positive of them having a big pack is that they will tire out towards the end. We need to still be in the game by that point though by making it a constant arm wrestle.

Comfortable catalan win i think, hope I'm wrong but just can't see us winning

I agree with Grimmy more or less in his 17 is mine too but I's swap Farrell to left centre and Isa to right centre.
Rest agree with!

Isa is extremely doubtful, to the point where Lam made it clear he’s probably not playing in his interview on Wigan TV. It sounded more likely that Leuluai and Smithies will come back in.

I’d go-

Hardaker
Manfredi Bibby Farrell Hanley
Hastings Leuluai
Singleton Powell Havard
Bateman Smithies Partington

Subs
Byrne Bullock Clark Smith

I'd play Bateman at centre and leave Bibby on the left.

I’d consider it but I wouldn’t want to take too many out the pack. That is their strength at the minute. They’ve lost Yaha for this game and will have a couple of youngsters of their own in the outside back positions of Langi and Tomkins don’t make it, so I wouldn’t worry too much about Hanley.

Maybe its not for this Saturday but giving Hankey a crack at fb might be a shout. Its his position and atbsome point we need have a look at him. We might balance better with hardaker at centre at the minute?

I personally think we’ll get snotted this week. Watching Warrington last night v Salford and they didn’t have a complex game plan, it was fairly simple and they absolutely trounced Salford. I’m not saying Warrington are the paragons of SL but they played a simple plan and played it well, running out emphatic winners like we should have done.

I hold absolutely no hope this week.

Warrington highlighted just how poor we were last week. I know them battering Salford and us grabbing a fortunate win isn’t an absolute science of where we’re at but the nature of our try’s highlighted our struggles. Two barge overs from Singleton and a stunning try from Faz from a fortunate pick up. There’s hardly any ball movement and when we try we look so unorganised and start making errors.