Aspinwall, Briscoe, Crooks, Heremaia, Horne, Houghton, Kent, Lynch, Manu, Moa, O’Carroll, Pitts, Russell, Seymour, Tickle, Turner, Westerman, Whiting, Yeaman.



Heremaia and Kent in, Lyne and Ellis out.

Houghton retains place in squad despite the rumours that he's out for the next few weeks.

Houghton ??

Warrington Squad:

4 Ryan Atkins
18 Matty Blythe
3 Chris Bridge
6 Lee Briers
10 Garreth Carvell
17 Mike Cooper
32 Ben Currie
13 Ben Harrison
14 Micky Higham
20 Chris Hill
21 Tyrone McCarthy
5 Joel Monaghan
9 Michael Monaghan
8 Adrian Morley
24 Gareth O'Brien
19 Stefan Ratchford
2 Chris Riley
11 Trent Waterhouse
16 Paul Wood

Must be a better option on crutches than anything else available

surely a typo, probably Danny Nicklas

Smailes has tweeted he should be in the squad.

Presumably Watts is close to signing and Houghton will drop out injured so Watts can come in.

Heremaia to do 80?
Whiting/Westy to 6 and Horne to spell H?
Whiting/Westy to 6 and Horne to FB and Russell to spell H?

I would put Horne to Fullback as he'll be better under Briers' kicks than Russell would, and it also relieves his playmaking duties as he's been poor at that in his last 2 games.



If Houghton is definitely not gonna be playing, I'd have Heremaia starting at Hooker and Russell on the bench to spell him. Whiting at Stand-off.

If Houghton is available, then I would play Russell at Stand-off.


I would want Crooks to be playing outside of Yeaman for this game, as extra guidance to him. He'll be facing either Monaghan or Riley so I think he would benefit from the experience and composure that Yeaman should bring.


So either

Houghton fit:
Horne, Crooks, Yeaman, Turner, Briscoe, Russell, Seymour, Lynch, Houghton, Moa, Manu, Tickle, Whiting.
Subs: Heremaia, Aspinwall, O'Carroll, Pitts,

Or if Houghton is confirmed out:
Horne, Crooks, Yeaman, Turner, Briscoe, Whiting, Seymour, Lynch, Heremaia, Moa, Manu, Tickle, Pitts,
Subs: Russell, Aspinwall, O'Carroll, Westerman/Kent

Houghton won't play, he's in so they can put Watts in when he signs.

Russell
Crooks
Turner
Yeaman
Briscoe
Horne
Seymour
Lynch
Heremaia
Moa
Manu
Tickle
Whiting (also to do 20 minutes at 6/9/1 depending on who Gentle picks to spell Aaron)

O'Carroll
Watts
Pitts
Westerman

Watts apparently unlikely to be playing tomorrow.

I'd play Horne at fullback. We will get murdered by Wire's kicking game with Russell there (I am afraid to say).
Can Russell play any other positions? He's shows great glimpses with ball in hand so he can definitely be an asset somewhere, just not at full back.

Played on the wing for Wigan.

I'd put him at 6 or spelling Heremaia. He's been one of our best players in attack and I think he could probably add a bit of flair add 6.
We need to play Horne at Fullback, I think.

Horne should start at 6 and he could cover Heremaia with Westy playing 6.

horne trained at 9 earlier in week to spell azza. Could of changedby now though. tue when got told that.