Think we'll see a wounded animal on Friday. I expect a similar game to bradford.

I think the SGI game will have taken a lot out of the players physically and mentally, so it'll be a struggle.

It's a new experience for most of the players, we've not had to try and come back off a defeat like that before.

Bingo.

Oh yeah, I don't doubt that I just thibk we'll blow them out the water early on.

I thought Fielden failed a fitness test so he must have been close to playig if he had one of those??

Now I was thinking that, however to get Lima and (hopefully) Fielden back into the front row is an awesome luxury after such a big game.

Last season we had a really tough loss at Bradford, the players bounced back with a win at home against Hull who were also hanging around the top of the table.

We had our hardest defeat to take in the cup against Leeds, horrible mental and physical recovery for the players to make. We bounced back against Cas at home.

We got beat by St Helens at home and went to quins and then catalans the week after and bounced back with two quality performances.

We suffered a bad defeat at home to wire..... the response to this made our season as we then picked up our 2 best wins of the regular season by bouncing back against Hull and winning 46-0 away from home! amazing result.... we then backed that up with a quality win at Leeds.

We also lost by a point at home in a game against Leeds in the play-offs, this must have hit the players hard, our players put everything into that game like they did with the cup game..... the bounced back.... won the next 3 games and became champions.

Believe it or not boys and girls this team has BOUNCEBACKABILITY in abundance. Under Maguire we do not lose 2 games in a row. We will win on friday, it might not be pretty but I can guarentee it will be pretty convincing in attack and defence.

I'm really looking forward to Friday and think we will bounce back rather convincingly possibly drop off a little once we know the game is won but expect that due to sheer effort and desire from Sunday night - stilll expect us to come away with a decent enough win though.

Also it bye bye The Willows - another great little rugby ground that won't be there next year

I've heard a rumour this morning that McCrae has been given leave of absence due to ill health, and that Malcolm Alker and Steve Simms will be in charge of the Salford team for Friday night.

Not sure whether that's good or bad from our perspective. If McCrae was getting things wrong, it might have a galvanising effect on his team now that he's not there.

We need to be on our guard against complacency. Salford could be really fired up for this one.

Confirmed here.
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awww I know but still.......................I'll miss a can poored into a plastic glass and being charged £3.20 for the privilege

Squad - rlhttps://www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.aspx?id

As I thought - there was no way Fielden was going to play at Salford. Stuart's a tough bloke and any injury that would keep him out of the WCC was never just going to be something that only required 5 days recovery time. Same goes for Gleeson.