There's glimmers of hope for us and the fact its a final and a derby can lead to a "anything can happen on the day". However, I don't think its going to happen for us, I'd probably say I rate chances as 75% Wigan to 25% Saints in my mind.
What I really fear is us doing something silly/rubbish early on whilst you start like a rocket, then see you sit on the lead with a superior kicking game.

Has this turned into a disappointing signing? Is he back of to Humberside?
He's looked good when I've seen him, but he took a while to get going, didn't he, and now he's not making the side?

He's been outstanding and probably our best prop for a good while which considering his age is impressive.

Very hot/cold this season though as his Mrs has been nagging him to go back to Hull. Hasn't played since he signed for Hull FC (apparently).

Every time I've watched Wigan I've rated Flower much more highly than Taylor. I'd say he was your best prop.

I would agree with that he's certainly been the most consistent prop. Good wrap for Dom Crosby he's progressed well this season.

is that now official?

There has been no official announcement, I assume that'll be left until the off-season.

Great shame to see him leave, he was our best prop last season and our pack is weaker without him in it, but there's more than adequate replacements for him. However, i'd much prefer to see Taylor on our bench come Saturday than Pettybourne

it depends on who you listen to as whether it is official or not............

As the club tend to try to bury bad news by including it in a press release with some good news, maybe we are in for a nice surprise next week? We've known Taylor is going...might someone be coming?

Maybe Waney is been trying to send Taylor a message by not selecting him - this is what it is like to miss out playing in big games/finals. Go to Hull and this is how it'll be, you'll miss out on great nights. If Taylor has any sense he'll commit his future to Wigan.

If Taylor has any sense he'll stay at Wigan and let his good lady go back to Hull.

My guess would be an experienced half-back from another SL club.

Who would you have?

I wouldn't be unhappy with Scot Dureau, Kevin Brown or Tim Smith (if he could learn to defend). Can't think of many others and those three are not really Paul Deacon quality.

That would be a good question for Shaun Wane, I just think that if there is an opportunity to bring in somebody like a Paul Deacon who is looking for one last swan song and who could help guide the young players around we should take it.

Dureau is going back to Catalan, as is Carney and Tonga. They will be a very good team indeed next year.
I worry about playing Clubb and Sarginson in the GF. One thing that you have with the likes of Taylor and Goulding is thousands of hours of RL exeprience, which allows them instinctively to do the right things at the right time. Clubb and Sarg have learnt their skills and learnt them well, but I don't know if they could be relied upon to sustain their concentration under severe pressure over the 80. We already saw evidence of them creaking last Friday.
As a counter to this argument we also saw an error strew display from Bowen who has been playing for decades, but, having watched Sarg and Clubb for their entire careers, I fear we could rue a brain storm or rank indiscipline from them on Saturday.