He is going to be heartbroken when he finds out that saintsfan really is a fat old man with BO. Stand by to support a traumatised pete

Should be great, alot depends on Jammer, playing with a bulging disc is somewhere between very brave and very fool hardy

Christ! I can't believe that he'll play whilst suffering from that.

Mucho respect, but pushing himself to much IMO.

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A bulging disc



That does not sound good, this is an important game but not worth risking an injury like that.

I think you should rest him

I read that Royce has said the bulging disc has gone back into place and he has regained the power in his legs. He is however having back spasms (which he has had before).It will be 24hrs before KO before we will know if he is playing. He is resting this week.

Royce said Graham will be doing the captains run that will probably be the only bit of training he Does this week. A bulging disk can be a potentially bad injury.

If he does play then Wigan would be mad not to target him and smash him every time he takes the ball up. Pryce looks a bit vulnerable in defence from the highlights i saw v Cas.

What Pryce misses in defence he makes up for a whole lot in attack

should be a cracker I just hope it doesn't rain and put the spolis on

Can you just imagine the type of reaction we would get if that does happen.
We get crucified for tackling the legs, what will the anti Wigan brigade come up with if we targeted a (perceived) weak link (heaven forbid).

Why do Wigan fans think the whole world is against them? For Christ sake, it's not the 80s!

Any team with any brains concentrates on shutting down The Big Red Machine. They'd be foolish not to.

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Of course they do but that usually involves the defence pushing up quicker and getting more men into the tackle so he can't build up steam or play a short pass. I'm presuming in this case they mean putting more impact into the tackle itself if the big stroppy scouser is playing with an injury.

What's so special about Graham having a bulging disc?

Everything about FGB is bulging.....his belly.....petted lip.....piggy eyes! One more thing bulging is hardly going to make a great difference, now is it?

Wigan will throw everything they've got at your front row tomorrow as it's your greatest strength. The starting 3 are that good though they could come out the other side of it and that usually doesn't happen.

If your front row manages to create space for the rest of the side you'll win a close one IMO.

The problem tend to come when Graham and Puletua are spelled after taking on the initial onslaught, that's when we fall off the pace. Clough being back will help immensely with that(if he's fit).

That's what happened at the DW but then your bench is much better now then it was that day. We really struggled to contain your starting pack that day but your bench let you down.

Saying that we were playing awful at that time and look like last years side again now.

Our better form and your returning players should ensure this is as close as Good Friday and it really could go either way. I don't have the best feeling about this one though.

Your missus was very impressed with another of his bulges by all accounts.

Not for me. The problem is that Wigoon are much more effective at tackling the player and turning him onto his back. If we could do that to them or alternatively improve our own ability to speed up the PTB then we can build on that. If we let them control the ruck (because we are significantly less effective at turning the player on his back and have been for a few years now) like they did in the last match, and have been doing against most teams recently, we're going to be up against it.

Having Leon playing should help us to get on the front foot a bit more often as would having some pace at full back when returning kicks.

I personally think our defense is the key. Wigan's success and gameplan is 90% defense and 10% confusion in attack by overloading one side of the pitch. In the game at Widnes they spent so much energy getting good line speed, dominating in the tackle, lying on and wrestling and then we gifted them the first three or four tries through absolute idiocy from the likes of Wello.

If we can keep it tight and not concede the usual tries off kicks we're in with a chance. We'll never out muscle them in the pack as they will always get 3 or 4 into the tackle and we don't play that way.

We also need to be really, really dirty, sly and cheat as much as possible.

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