Lui is a key player for Salford and would be a big miss if he's out, as would BMM. The Wigan team that was beaten by Salford at the DW stadium earlier in the season was as folows:

21. Lewis Tierney, 36. Tom Davies, 32. Liam Forsyth, 5. Joe Burgess, 35. Liam Marshall, 39. Josh Woods, 16. Sam Powell, 8. Frank-Paul Nuuausala, 33. Josh Ganson, 19. Ryan Sutton, 20. Willie Isa, 12. Liam Farrell, 11. Joel Tomkins

Interchange: 17. Taulima Tautai, 23. Nick Gregson, 24. Joe Bretherton, 26. Romain Navarrete

To be fair the lads gave a decent account t of themselves against Salford when they were in good form. However, next week's Wigan side won't look anything like that and it'll be interesting to see how Salford go against a far stronger Wigan. I'm not saying it'll be easy but I do fancy Wigan.

Wigan are 2/5 with the bookies so fairly heavy favourites. I fancy Wigan to win but that is more down to Salfords form rather than ours.Results wise we have picked up since the injured lads have returned but performance wise we still ain't firing.

We're not playing well enough for anything to be easy. If Lui is out there's more then enough quality in Carney and Dobson to take it to Wigan. Murdoch Masila would be a big blow but unless it's pretty serious the panel have a history of going easy before big games. What did he do?

Dobbo and carney have been awful as a pairing, bmm was put on report for 2 successive high challenges

It's incredible how far Carney's star has waned when you think about it; from Origin half-back to 'barely Superleague standard' in just a few years. A waste of a real talent.

Fair enough but they'd still make me worry. Dobson seems to play well against us and Carney you know has the quality to win a game when his heads in it.

Fingers crossed BMM is available. He's been great to watch this year and the game deserves the best players to be available.

Agree with all of this. It's not often we get 2 sides with their best players available going at it hammer and tongue. Hopefully both sides will have a strong squad available and give us a great game of rugby league.

What's wrong with Lui? I think he's been excellent this season.

Interesting! Another player told me that Faz could have played on Friday.

That sounds more promising then. Hopefully Farrell is just keeping people guessing. There's no player in our squad that I'd rather have on the team sheet in a big game then Farrell.

Lockers!!

Agreed, he is seriously underrated. Next captain for me.

BMM hasn't been charged so is free to play.

This has little to no credibility as it literally comes from the 'bloke down the pub' but apparently Wigan have sold just 2,500 tickets for the semi-final. Such apathy wouldnt surprise me but does anyone have any info on sales (Wigan and overall) from a more reliable source?