Is it just me who thinks using this game to rest so many key players in one go could come back to haunt us? I'm all for giving the younger players a shot... But lets not go to crazy. Widnes still have some pretty good players who one of these days are gonna click together and put in a good performance... I'd hate to see that happen against an understrength Wigan side.

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It's going too far IMO if that's the case and just gives Widnes motivation. They're the 2 players that if in the side at 1 and 13 I think we can get away with resting pretty much anyone else as those 2 are so important to us.

There's other opportunities coming up against lower sides for a rest like London next week or Saints on Good Friday!!

If Sam doesn't play tomorrow, then I'm having second thoughts about going to the game. I think we should play our strongest team and steamroll them! I think we could quite easily cope without Sam, but Lockers, thats a different story.

I hope we take tomorrow seriously because it has Crusaders 2009 written all over it and that was embarrassing.

Wane has said he wants Wigan to be ruthless for 80 mins. I hope he picks a side that is capable of doing that against Widnes. It is a good idea to rest some of our key players, but I'd be surprised if he rested Sam and Lockers together.

Sam Tomkins Twitterwatch the boys ...

showing a bit too much disrespect

I think it's important to rest players when necessary. We need squad rotation. No matter which team we play, there would always be a chance for it to backfire. I'd like to see who will come in for them and I will trust that they will do a good job.

Gone a bit far for me and were running a risk of throwing a simple 2 points away.

Team must be-

Russell
Charnley
Goulding
Hughes
Gelling
Mellor
Finch
Lima
McIlorum
Mossop
Hansen
Hock
Farrell

Subs
Lauaki
Spencer
Tuson
L Tomkins

You'd like to think it's enough to win but it could be an uncomfortable day.

There's no one who knows the youngsters better than Wane does, that's for sure. But I seriously hope we don't under-estimate Widnes too much, these changes can spur them on. But, in Wane we trust.

All depends on the start now. If we get off to a goodun we'll be fine, however if we let Widnes get a sniff, we may well be in for a tough afternoon.

I have actually gone very nervous with this news.

resting tomkins and lockers is going to far IMO

Well had to check it myself, but Sam definitely isn't playing. Confirmed by himself on Twitter.

Strangely I'm more excited about the game now than I was earlier in the week when it was thought that we were playing our strongest team. Gonna be interesting viewing today.

Only time will tell if this move pays off but it does make me a little nervous considering two of our best players are in the stands.