Big miss,he has had his appendix removed hasn't he?my guess is he will be back for the play offs.

A couple of weeks recovery for Gale, he'll be back. We need to take full advantage though

An appendix? That's just an optional extra! In Wigan we rip a kidney out with our bare hands, and are playing the next week!

Them rugby gods at it again?

I thought a kidney removal was a 15 min spell in the blood bin....

I presume you are joking ?If you are serious thank god you aren't my doctor.

Thank God he's no one's doctor.

We'll see.

It all depends on the nature of it. The surgery itself will be okay for him to recover from, it's if it ruptured and did damage to other organs that it could have him out a bit longer. My moneys on him being back for the semi.

Fantastic!

Looking forward to it! Always enjoy visiting the DW (apart from the results usually)

Lockers out for us according to Wane at the press conference today. He's got a slight calf injury but should be right for Wakefield.

That's both clubs without their most influential player.

Suspect that we would've seen a lot more of this earlier in the season if we had the luxury. Amazing that in a season plagued by injury that Lockers has been not far off a constant!

Massive loss in a must win game. I'm tempted to say a bigger loss than Cas losing Gale as they are at least in a position where they can afford to lose this one. Everyone needs to step up their game although I'm not convinced even this covers for losing Lockers judging from previous games!