Powell used to go in at the knees on static players, he's got history for crappy tackles, gets all he deserves as far as I'm concerned.

If Shorrocks is our back up, then I'm worried. He's a great tackler, loads of effort, but he isn't clever, he isn't fast and his passing speed out of the ruck is very slow.

Grade E is 4-8 weeks I think.

Interesting to see how we readjust.

I’ve long thought we had a good cover for every position bar hooker.

I like Shorrocks but only as an emergency 9 or covering for 15 mins or so.

O’Neill would come in cold.

Could

1 Field

6 French

7 Smith

9 Cust

14 O’Neill?

Be an option?

Not ideal losing Tommy and Powell at the same time.

Square peg, round hole for Cust at hooker. I’ve no doubt he’d do a job but for my money he needs to stay in the halves. O’Neill all day long

I think we’d have to swap Field and French in that set up. The debate about the ability of French to play in the halves had some minutes in focus yesterday and he was really poor. Field is more of a natural half looking at their past appearances in the NRL.

Bans kick in fro mnext weekend.

That means Hurrell is also banned for the semi

I think with Powell out there's a risk of making so many changes that the good things we've done so far this year could be disrupted. Surely the best thing is to keep as much consistency as possible.

Our best player this season has been Field because he's so dangerous at fullback. Is it essential that he's moved into the halves? No. So keep Field in the position where he's been arguably the best player in Super League so far.

Do we need Cust to play at hooker? No. We may have lost Leuluai for a long time if not the whole season so why move our other first choice half and start playing with a completely untried partnership several weeks in? He's been playing reasonably well at 6 and we need some consistency so surely common sense says Cust plays 6.

We've lost our scrum half, so play our back up scrum half in Smith. We've lost our hooker, so play our back up hooker in O'Neill. Yes, Shorrocks may also have to cover at 9 which I'm not a fan of. I don't think he's terrible there but I think he's been massively underused as a 13 and in his last two games has made positive impacts when he's come on.

There may be a way of moving Cust to 9 late on and then getting Field into the halves for a short while, but in general I don't understand the idea behind completely disrupting the team by moving players who have established themselves in a certain position when we've already lost key players around them.

Good point - hopefully Hopoate and Grace back by then fingers crossed!

Let's not change half the team around for two absentees.

Smith in for Tommy.
O'Neill in for Powell.

With Ellis and Hardaker back (and hopefully Marshall soon) we should be okay.

I’ve got a lot of time for Matty Peet I have to say. He’s a thoroughly likeable bloke and even as a Saints fan I can say that.

Every time I see him interviewed he impressed me. Yesterday he gave no excuses, was very complimentary towards Saints and didn’t defend the Powell tackle, even saying that he hopes Bennison is okay.

There’s no doubt at all that if given time he’ll get Wigan back to the Wigan of old again.

Just seen on Facebook that the disciplinary action doesn't take place until Wednesday meaning all players up before the beak can play Monday.

We all have now seen Peets post match comments, with this in mind do you think he play Powell against Wakefield?

He isn’t. Hurrell will be banned for our games v Cas and Salford.

Aye, we have Salford and Wire before the semi on the back of Monday’s game.

Apparently not i have seen that it will be Tuesday

Apparently not i have seen that it will be Tuesday

Think he will miss the Castleford and Salford games then back to face you lot in the semi final.