You’re right, but now I’ve heard it’s a four week job. Sometimes someone at the club can put out a so called leak to wrong foot the opposition, it’s been done loads of times. Let’s just hope it one of them.

I work at the hospital where the wigan, saints and wire players go and i can confirm i did see tomkins come in for an mri scan he didnt seem pleased when they left, so im guessing the 2-4 weeks out is near correct.

Wigan have more than 1 standout player the team is full of them so even without sam i would expect them to make the final.

Richards to FB, Thornley on the wing then? Not too disappointed with that if it happens

Not selected in the 19 is he? I'd expect to see Jack Murphy at FB, it'd be a big risk mind

Ah but if a player is only found to be injured once the 19 is selected a player can be swapped for that player.

Yeah, forgot about that. Thornley on the wing would be the best option then

too big of a risk i'd say

Richards has played many games at FB and is always dependable, albeit our attack would suffer somewhat I feel as he's not the quickest these days, i'd hope to see Thornley brought in and put on the wing

Murphy must have been included in the squad for a reason so if Tomkins is out then surely it's Murphy who will take his place. It's just common sense. If a fullback is injured, replace him with a fullback. He's already going to be familiar with the set plays, Richards probably isn't. There would be no attacking threat with Richards at fullback and we need to be strong in attack.

Would Wane not put Gelling on the wing? Dont watch the reserves so dont know how either him or Thornley are doing

Well it wont be Gelling, he is busy updating his Twitter account. He would not be doing that if he was playing tonight.

You are a bradford fan and you work at Wrightington Hospital?

Bit o/t but do you work at hope?

If it is true whilst gutted I don't think it would be to bad in some ways. Leeds tactics will revolve around stopping sam. with no sam on the pitch it could mess things up for both teams as far as tactics are concerned. Also from what I've seen from murphy, I think provided he can handle the pressure, he could have a stormer.

Edit my earlier post.

Sam is out of tonight's match.

"I work at the hospital where the wigan, saints and wire players go and i can confirm i did see tomkins come in for an mri scan he didnt seem pleased when they left, so im guessing the 2-4 weeks out is near correct."

So what happened to patient confidentiality?????

Doesn't say what he does at the hospital. Could be a porter, IT-contractor, chef - not sure they're bound by the same patient-confidentiality rules.