Warrington

Matty Ashton, Tom Lineham, Toby King, Anthony Gelling, Josh Charnley, Blake Austin, Stefan Ratchford, Chris Hill, Daryl Clark, Mike Cooper, Ben Currie, Ben Murdoch-Masila, Jason Clark

Subs: Joe Philbin, Sitaleki Akauola, Danny Walker, Luther Burrell

Well these are good opportunities for Ashton and Burrell.

I'm glad he's gone with that selection. Big test for Ashton good luck to him. It's a strong side, Wigan aren't too shabby either though.

Hope Danny Walker goes well; some extra zip and elusiveness around the play the ball to keep us rolling forward.

Davis, Mamo, Patton and Johnson miss out.

That's fair enough I suppose.

Now it's up to the 17 to show they're worth selection.

Looking forward to seeing Ashton..genuine pace just hope we get to see it

6what a load of bollix

Oh well that's that then. Was quite.enjoying that for 10 mins.

We're clearly the better side, even with 12

Question is can we keep it up.

A fair 40 minutes from us. I was a little disappointed we only got the one try from all that early pressure.

Unfortunate for Hill. He was "on top" of the player, when he received the ball, and the natural reflex ended with Hill making contact with the head. Ref had little or no alternative. Ho hum. I just hope the disciplinary see it the way I do, but I won't hold my breath.

Stay competitive, Wire. We're not out of this, yet.

Currie needs to get involved a bit more

O'Loughlin his usual dirty self though

Partington is his prodigy and he's coming on a treat

This is getting silly

We look fit that’s a positive. Cooper and hill absolutely brain dead.

4 head high tackles , 1 red card, difference being powell injured.

Another one of those plucky defeats I've had to endure.

Good effort, Wire. Zero points, though.

Not fair. Hill just going for the ball and all try saving tackle. These things happen. Cooper prevented a certain try.

So much to be encouraged by. Some great offloading. Just some poor decision making at key times.

Officiating shocking. So much diving at the play the ball. Needs stamping out urgently. Much worse than last season already.

How was French MoM?

Currie is shot. BMM has to play in the second row and let Hughes and currie fight it out for the other spot.

Plenty of positives, plenty of offloads, fitness and desire outstanding and lots of good individual efforts. Alas, nil points.

Wigan know they've dodged a 12 man bullett there, and they should be the.more worried of the two teams.

Sky must have been watching a different game to me because I thought Wigan should be embarrassed by that result. Never mind talking about Wigan character. 50 minutes against 12 men and 10 against 11. We might not have won but my god you couldn't have asked for more.

Gutsy performance by the Wire and we look to have a potential superstar in Ashton.

Need to cut out stupid ball steals and the crossfield kick to king move is wearing a bit thin.

Plenty of heart and the BMM try barging Burgess over was a belter.

Good performances from a number of our players - Ashton, King, BMM and Jason Clark to name a few.
But as has been said above, still a loss.

A lot more to come from Wigan though.

First game so can't read a massive amount into it but we do look very fit.

Left edge creativity is a bit lacking and i get fed up of trapping the opposition in to try an win a penalty. But a good performance against the odds. Take that spirit into the other games and we'll be ok.

Clarke said at the end wire were the better side, had to rewind it to make sure, he’s not wrong Ashton a bit raw with his lack of running round the back and his lines but that’s to be expected when he’s played wing once he gets that sorted will be some player.