I think Hadley took over Westerman's role in the middle against Wakefield, and his passing game looked good to me. Probably 80 minutes was just a bit too much for him.

Matt Bowen and Liam Farrell are added to the Warriors growing list of absentees ahead of the Champions trip to the KC Stadium to take on Hull FC on Friday.

Bowen and Farrell picked up injuries in Wigan's defeat to Leeds Rhinos last week and join Eddy Pettybourne, Ben Flower, Iain Thornley, Josh Charnley and Greg Burke on the side-lines. Captain Sean O'Loughlin is again unavailable with the same groin problem that kept him out of last week's clash, while Ryan Hampshire also misses out after picking up a knock playing for the under 19's side.

Academy products Ryan Sutton, Dom Manfredi and Connor Farrell are drafted in to the travelling party.

Wigan Warriors 19-Man Squad

John Bateman, Joe Burgess, Tony Clubb, Dom Crosby, Gil Dudson, Connor Farrell, Anthony Gelling, Darrell Goulding, Blake Green, Jack Hughes, Jordan James, Dom Manfredi, Michael McIlorum, Sam Powell, Dan Sarginson, Matty Smith, Ryan Sutton, Scott Taylor, George Williams.

Referee - Robert Hicks

Shaul
Crookes
Crooks
Yeaman
Talanoa
Horne
Miller
Paea
Houghton
Carvell
Thompson
Ellis
Westerman/Watts

Heremaia
Feka
Bowden
Whiting

Colbon & Watts to miss out if Westy's fit.

Why on earth would you leave your best half back out! Why he has dropped Rankin I don't know. He always plays with passion.

A brave move dropping someone who has scored 6 tries in the last 5 games.

Or a sign that the coach doesn't know what he's doing?

Apparently Rankin has an ankle injury. Why that wasn't in the press release god alone knows. This and other threads would be a lot shorter...

Oh dear oh dear, rankin loses his place!!!! what more can you say about that....

I'd have gone with
Shaul

Crookes
Crooks
Whiting
Talanoa

Bowden
Azza
Paea
Ellis
Watts
Hadley

bench: Houghton, Green, Carvs, Thompson

start with strength then bring quicker players on when defence tires

Colbon in says to me one of the wingers might but struggling.

Has Rankin been that good, he had beem scoring, but not doing too much the rest of the game. I think he has the potential to be a good player? hopefully a more experienced half will help Miller.

I think Radford has lost the plot now if Rankin is dropped and not injured.
He is the half back who scores our tries and is the best kicker we have.
Surely putting Horne back to 7 to partner Rankin would have been the obvious choice given What Miller is bringing to the team.
Why bring Colbon into the 19 unless someone is nursing an injury
Good news about Westerman but leave him out till next weekend.

Not been funny, but if we can't beat that Wigan team at home, we are in serious , I expect us to win

Must be a mistake, Feka has been excellent the last two games and would be one of the first names in the team sheet, can see him being really fired up for this game against his old club and should thrive of the reaction from both sets of fans, as I'd expect the Wigan fans to give him a good reception.

You'd think Rankin was a world beater reading this thread he's average at best and last week was as poor as anyone.