Adrian Lam has named Wigan Warriors’ 19-man squad to face Wakefield Trinity on Thursday. Injured Tommy Leuluai and Joe Bullock replaced by Jack Wells and Academy player Ethan Havard. Wigan Warriors vs Wakefield Trinity, Thursday 18th July, DW Stadium, K.O. 7:45pm. Head Coach Adrian Lam has named the Wigan Warriors 19-man squad to face Wakefield Trinity on Thursday at the DW Stadium (K.O. 7:45pm). The reigning Betfred Super League Champions will host the Yorkshire side for the first time this season. The Round 23 fixture will be the second time the two clubs have met in 2019 with Wakefield picking up a 30-20 victory back in early April on their home soil. Injury news Prop forward Joe Bullock misses only his second game of the season through a knee injury picked up against St Helens last week. Speaking earlier this week, Adrian Lam explained that the severity of the injury was not yet clear. “We have Bullock going for an MRI scan on his knee. There is some medial damage but hopefully that’s it. There are some concerns over it being an ACL but we will find out soon. If it is, that will be the season over for him - fingers crossed it’s not.” Tommy Leuluai also misses out this week through a lower back injury. Sean O’Loughlin (Achilles), Ben Flower (back) and Joe Greenwood (head injury) remain on the comeback trail and are not available for selection this week. Dom Manfredi (knee) and Tom Davies (ankle) remain the two long-term injuries in the squad. Wigan Warriors 19-man squad to face Wakefield Trinity: image: https://www.wiganwarriors.com/admin/res ... efield.jpg Joe Burgess, Liam Byrne, Tony Clubb, Liam Farrell, Oliver Gildart, Chris Hankinson, Zak Hardaker, Ethan Havard, Willie Isa, Liam Marshall, Romain Navarrete, Ollie Partington, Sam Powell, Jarrod Sammut, Dan Sarginson, Jake Shorrocks, Morgan Smithies, Jack Wells, George Williams. Read more at https://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2019 ... VUlQCem.99

Adrian Lam has named Wigan Warriors’ 19-man squad to face Wakefield Trinity on Thursday. Injured Tommy Leuluai and Joe Bullock replaced by Jack Wells and Academy player Ethan Havard. Wigan Warriors vs Wakefield Trinity, Thursday 18th July, DW Stadium, K.O. 7:45pm. Head Coach Adrian Lam has named the Wigan Warriors 19-man squad to face Wakefield Trinity on Thursday at the DW Stadium (K.O. 7:45pm). The reigning Betfred Super League Champions will host the Yorkshire side for the first time this season. The Round 23 fixture will be the second time the two clubs have met in 2019 with Wakefield picking up a 30-20 victory back in early April on their home soil. Injury news Prop forward Joe Bullock misses only his second game of the season through a knee injury picked up against St Helens last week. Speaking earlier this week, Adrian Lam explained that the severity of the injury was not yet clear. “We have Bullock going for an MRI scan on his knee. There is some medial damage but hopefully that’s it. There are some concerns over it being an ACL but we will find out soon. If it is, that will be the season over for him - fingers crossed it’s not.” Tommy Leuluai also misses out this week through a lower back injury. Sean O’Loughlin (Achilles), Ben Flower (back) and Joe Greenwood (head injury) remain on the comeback trail and are not available for selection this week. Dom Manfredi (knee) and Tom Davies (ankle) remain the two long-term injuries in the squad. Wigan Warriors 19-man squad to face Wakefield Trinity: image: https://www.wiganwarriors.com/admin/res ... efield.jpg Joe Burgess, Liam Byrne, Tony Clubb, Liam Farrell, Oliver Gildart, Chris Hankinson, Zak Hardaker, Ethan Havard, Willie Isa, Liam Marshall, Romain Navarrete, Ollie Partington, Sam Powell, Jarrod Sammut, Dan Sarginson, Jake Shorrocks, Morgan Smithies, Jack Wells, George Williams. Read more at https://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2019 ... VUlQCem.99

Why is O loughlin always injured?

He's played almost 75% of the games this season.

But how many minutes has he been on the pitch?

And still picked for GB

Hardaker
Marshall
Sarge
Gildart
Burgess/Hankinson
Williams
Sammut
Naverette
Powell
Partington
Farrell
Isa
Smithies

Hankinson/Wells
Clubb/Havard
Sharrocks
Byrne

Hopefully Clubb and Burgess made it

I wouldn’t be surprised if his minutes per game is higher than usual this season actually.

I would guess you’re spot on. He was doing longer minutes then he’s done for 5 or 6 seasons early on this year.

About 5 x times More than Tony Clubb at a guess?

A couple of weeks ago I was feeling confident about this game. Now it has long evening written all over it. Good to see either Havard or Wells possibly getting a run but we look a bit youthful upfront now.

The only positive I can see is that Fifita is not in the Wakey squad. I’d still have them down as favourites though and much like last week, the best I’m hoping for is for us to give it a real dig.

What has Clubb's minutes go to do with SOL???
I don't particularly rate Clubb but just don't see why you are trying to link the two??

Looking at our squad for the Wakefield game and how lightweight we are up front with current injuries, it’s absolutely baffling how we haven’t got any more forwards in yet as mentioned the other day in the rumours thread. We’ve had a good run of easier fixtures to get ourselves into the top 5. Got beat by the better team last week, but surely we can’t be letting our league position slip by losing on Thursday because we can’t compete in the middle (like what happened at their place)

We're pretty fortunate that on Thursday they're short of Fafita and Kopzcak. Looking at their squad they've got England, Hurst and George King as their props and then some power in the back row (or probably filling in the front row) via Pauli Pauli and Tanginoa but it could be far worse. We need big performances from the senior forwards like Farrell, Clubb, Powell and Isa and if we can get that then our backline should hopefully have too much for them. We certainly need to move the ball around with more accuracy then we managed on Friday.

Because our biggest problem at the moment as I have alluded to since prior to the start of the season is getting enough minutes out of our senior forwards.

That's been magnified by losing tatuai and Hamlin but with the reduced interchange they were all going to need to play more note less minutes.

People with agendas have picked scapegoats this season as always withbolaywrs such as sarginson, William's Isa and Powell taking most of the flak and Lockers seems to get it from quite a lot due to his age.

Yet Lockers minutes have been pretty good this year along with appearances but he still gets picked out.

We have Clubb (in particular) Flower and now Greenwood (which I'm prepared to give time to as 5/6 knocks/injuries over the last 12/14 weeks isn't necessarily something that will go on forever but is a worrying trend) contributing very little in terms of minutes and appearances and am amazed he gets away in general with relatively very little criticism IMO.

We do have quite a lot of issues but in terms of prioritising them our front row issue is 10xtimes larger than any other IMO and I get frustrated at criticism of the players like Sarge/Williams/Powell/Isa who all play 90% of games and 70/80mins every week with the best effort of all the players yet get 90% of the criticism from the experts, whilst others get away relatively lightly.

The decision to give Clubb 2 more years is something I am dtill having sleepless nights about and its causing me severe neck pain as I'm shaking my head in disbelief that much.

If it's ok with you when I see players being singled out who have done nothing but their best and been brilliant for this club being pointed out for their supposed lack of games or minutes forgive my tiny indulgence in pointing out that 2 or 3 of our squad need to comtribute a lot more and we need to worry about that without worrying about Lockers.