Squads realesed id assume we’d line up like

Obrien
Evalds
Jones
Sau
Olpherts
Lui
Littlejohn
Mossop
Tomkins
Tasi
Huaraki
Griffin
McCarthy

Wood
Burgess
Nakubuwai
Kopzcak

Must Win.

reasons noted in the must win first round.

More of a must win than last week but still not a must win as noted last week.

Must win, to ensure that we remain above Cas in the league

Will be a much tougher test for us than last week

Its always a bit iffy in early season with no game time fine tuning, but s'pose its the same for everyone, its been a long time since we gave that many pens and bb pens in a game, I don't even know how many there were but it felt like a lot, it certainly fed HKR's come back periods
I think if we play that game again without the pens, we'll see Salford off with a bit to spare..

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we win we go top for 1 day at least

That is a strong 17 considering the players Salford lost in the close season. Wigan's scoreline last week was misleading with a lot of basketball tries.

I fancy us to win this but expect a close game.

Have to be honest I agree. I reckon on any other given day half of Wigans tries wouldn't have happened. They rode their luck and all credit to them but it wasn't a fair reflection on Salford.

I agree. We'll need to improve on last week to get a win.

Think we have to be careful not to start believing our own hype again, Salford are a dangerous side and have decent strike all over the place. Cut out the lazy pens, get a decent completion rate and we should have enough but need the leaders to keep our feet on the ground.

Indeed, if we play to our potential we will be far to strong for them but get complacent and they could spank us. We know this because that's exactly what we used to do.

We are not the underdogs anymore so a new mindset is required because people now raise their game for us. It's a compliment but it comes with strings attached.

I think we will do 'em easily. Better in the forwards, better in the backs. IMO of course.....

Wakefield by 20+

You can wrap the Wigan victory up however you like - Fact is Salford were absolutely dreadful all throughout the game and were lucky Wigan only put 40 past them. They would have to improve drastically and Wakefield be off there game, unlikely but we know it can happen. Just dont see it myself.