Bullock
Drinkwater
Dufty
Green
Hartill
Holroyd
Lindop
Musgrove
Nicholson
Okoro
Powell
Ratchford
Sergeant
Tai
Wray
Thewlis
Tupaea
Vaughan
Whitehead
Wood
Wrench

Wigan have named a strong squad missing only Miski, Farrell and Thompson.

1. Dufty
2. Thewlis
3. Tai
4. Wrench
5. Lindop
6. Drinkwater
7. Ratchford
8. Musgrove
9. Powell
10. Vaughan
11. Holroyd
12. Nicholson
13. Wood

14. Bullock
15. Okoro
16. Green
17.????

I must admit i don't know who some of the kids are or the positions they play.
would like a hooker and maybe second rower on the bench rather than 3 props, Can anyone advise on a good 16 and 17 foe the bench?
Also 4 will drop out so could be mind games and it's not Guaranteed Dufty, Vaughan etc will actually play.
Hoping to see Okoro on the field though

I would expect Vaughan, Dufty, Drinkwater and Nicholson to miss out from the 21. So that leaves something like:-


Lindop
Sergent
Tai
Wrench
Thewlis
Ratchford
Powell
Bullock
Hartill
Musgrove
Holroyd
Whitehead
Green

Hartill
Okoro
Wood
Tupaea

i was gonna say, dufty will deffo miss out, no way he doesn't make the run on, and if he did, they'd be doing their best to take his head off

So if I have this right we have not named
Ashton
King
Williams
Harrison
Walker
Philbin
Currie
Fitzgibbon
Crowther

Looks like there will be some valuable experience gained this Saturday then.
That is the best part of a starting pack missing. Hope whoever plays does themselves proud. Free hit.

More fun this week guessing who's not going to make the 17.

I'd go with Dufty, Nicholson, Vaughan, Drinkwater.

Sure young and some not so young wolves will do us proud, free hit, if we win big psychological boost, if we lose then returning players fit and with revenge point to prove.

Lindop to centre in place of Tai, Taylor-Wray to full back.

I’d start with Bullock and Wood and tell them they’re on a straight shoot out for the bench spot at Wembley.

This squad has surprised me if I’m honest, from what little we’ve seen of Burgess it doesn’t seem ‘his way’.

ININOUTOUT

I'd say similar only I'd put Tupaea in at second row, shift Whitehead to Loose drop Green to bench and you have Hartill twice swap bench Hartill for Taylor-Wray

Surely this would be common sense from burgess? If we were playing tonight I'd suspect he would've gone full strength but with it being on a Saturday wouldn't that mean any failed HIA's mean said player misses wembley as it's an 8 day turnaround for concussions? Or have I got that wrong?

think its 10 or 11 days, usually covers 2 games though

Common sense indeed. The rules around HIAs are the major factor here, I believe. Any star players turning out this week would be vulnerable to skulduggery and/or plain bad luck, so they have to be protected and left out.

There'll usually very little "plain bad luck" in this type of fixture against a side as professional as Wigan....."Skulduggery" love it, word of the day for UR I'm going to get it in a conversation this afternoon.

11 days for HIA, no way would I play the normal 13 due to what has been said earlier, they will target them as it's the Wigan way.

Williams is banned

The week before Wembley in 2012 we played London away and they bounced us 64-12.
The team that played had enough to beat london

The team was Riley; Evans, Bridge, Atkins, Williams; Ratchford, Myler; Morley, M Monaghan, Wood, McCarthy, Waterhouse, Grix.

Replacements: Cooper, Blythe, Hill, Solomona.

Pretty decent team but if half of them had one eye on the big gig the week after then it counts for nothing but you are adding risk of suspension and injury.

Sorry Karetaker. Yep. Williams is suspended. I was trying to produce a big list of big names missing to get our excuses in early. Or to be able to say how we turned Wigan over with this lot Sat on the sidelines.

Although ever-hopeful, I'm certainly not expecting us to win this one. However, I'm excited to see how the likes of Taylor-Wray, Sergeant, Okoro and Tupaea perform (assuming they play). Let's hope all the young lads give a really good account of themselves.

Yeh I get that, only have Wigan fans thinking we are being cocky had we just rested Williams. But for me I was and am not overly bothered about the result of this particular game. I just wanted a result against Catalan last week.

I think this squad makes a lot of sense. We have a number of potential match winners in our first team squad who I'd hate to see take an 'accidental' knock the week before a final. Many of the players named have played some loan/DR rugby as well as a fair bit of SL experience. It will be great for them to run out in front of a big crowd and put a marker down for later in the year.

11 day concussion protocol I think so it would not matter when the game is played.

Give over, which player wants to miss the opportunity of playing at Wembley?

I thought HIA protocal was 11 days for some reason, i could be completely wrong though.
** Just realised this has already been answered

i'll be putting a £5 on liam byrne getting sent off

Followed by a Tuesday verdict from Cullen & Co. of "Sending off sufficient".