The team that lost at home to Castleford at the end of the season was as below. How will the team differ for the Wigan game do you think?

Ratchford;
Lineham,
=#FF0000Goodwin, - Gelling?
King,
Charnley;
Austin,
Patton;
Hill,
Clark,
Cooper,
Currie,
Clark,
Hughes.

Interchanges:
Murdoch-Masila,
Philbin,
Mamo,
=#FF0000Westwood. ???

Worth noting that the team which beat Wigan at the Magic Weekend was;

Mamo
Lineham
=#FF0040Goodwin
King
Charnley
Austin
Patton
Hill
D Clark
Cooper
Hughes
Currie
Philbin

J Clark
Walker
Murdoch-Masila
Akauola

So, whilst the absence of Widdop is clearly a disappointment, it's not the team sheet that's the problem - it's about which team turns up on the night. Hopefully not the one from the back end of last season.

After last year's league capitulation i wait to be convinced. We have the manpower but the tactics need a kick up the booty.

If that's the Wigan team...who plays for Wire?

I have removed the confusion for you.

Just thought i'd cast my eye over the squad & apparently ,according to the club web site , Bryson Goodwin is still available at number 3.

Come on, we know there is a new one in development give them a bit of slack.

We are weaker than last year

How on earth do you work that out?

Whilst I was sorry to see Goodwin go I'm curious about Gelling on his day I think he offers something a bit different we might even get a ball or two to the winger. I agree with you Captain that we should be better off with the short term injured Widdop rather than the long term injured Brown. Hopefully we will see better form from Currie and BMM and more decent stuff from Philbin, Clark, Austin, Ratchford......

I think our first choice 17 isn't that bad, my reservation is strength in depth but that applies to most teams and banishing the form that we ended on last year

Keep the faith UR! Widdop should be massive for us. Gelling/Burrell should offer something different and Currie and BMM are renaissance men, the future is bright!

I'd have swapped Goodwin for Gelling everytime. Gelling has everything Goodwin has plus a good pair of hands.
Gelling can do the around the back passing too.
Definitely an improvement.
I'd put Keenan Brand in ahead of King too!

I definitely think you should give Keenan Brand a shot in place of King. King for me is your weakest link. I’m looking forward to seeing Gelling back in SL. He’s a potential match winner and a joy to watch when he’s on his game. Hopefully he’ll find some consistency with you. I notice Ratchford is named at stand off for your friendly game tomorrow. An experiment or a SL starter??

Whether it's a plan to play Ratch in the halves or not...
2 positives from it are...
a) if we get another hb injury...he'll have too anyway so the practice will do him good.
b)Mano gets practice time at 1 if a) occurs.

Ashton is starting fullback tomorrow which is interesting in what appears to be a full strength line up

Be interesting to see if Price sticks to his tried and tested lineup.

Putting Ashton at FB & moving Ratchford (and not replacing him at FB with Mamo) is already a bit of a shift. All eyes on Ashton ... he's most definitely very quick.

Ashton is an interesting selection at FB. Thinking about it, I'm guessing that he will want to give both Ratchford and Patton a spell at half back and, so long as he gets some game time in somewhere on the field, he doesn't need to see Ratchford play at FB. Mamo to come on at FB in the second half?

How do people know where everyone is playing? The only list i saw was one of who is playing but not there positions?

https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... stimonial/

https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/sp ... stimonial/

Gone
Atkins, Brown, Goodwin, Tasi, Westwood & Livett (Loan)
In
Ashton, Brand, Gelling, Widdop, Kibula, Latu

Unless I have forgotten someone

How many games did those leaving clock up last year and just as importantly, would this year see them improve on that and their form/potential?

I'll give you Goodwin

also all of those players last year either wanted out or were over the hill.

The ones that have been brought in will be the complete opposite.

That will make a big difference... We are not weaker than last year (as someone said).. we are stronger.

I totally agree.

Price will try different combos tonight, thats nailed on. He obviously knows he needs to change things up after the end of the season we had, and quite frankly he must have eyes, and see that Patton is definatley not the answer whilst Widdop is out. Who knows, the partnership with Ratch and Austin could fire....Widdops better at FB anyway, just look at the world cup.


I'm still not getting the usual buzz before the start of a season, although looking forward to seeing how Ashton goes. Just hope i feel different this time next week about the season in general.