Warrington Wolves 21-man squad: Matty Ashton, Joe Bullock, Rob Butler, Daryl Clark, Jason Clark, Mike Cooper, Ben Currie, Jack Darbyshire, Riley Dean, Oliver Holmes, Jack Hughes, Toby King, Ellis Longstaff, Peter Mata’utia, Robbie Mulhern, Joe Philbin, Stefan Ratchford, Josh Thewlis, Danny Walker, Gareth Widdop, George Williams.

Ratchford
Thewlis
Mata’utia
King
Ashton
Widdop
Williams
Bullock
Clark
Cooper
Currie
Holmes
Clark

Mulhern
Philbin
Longstaff
Walker

You beat me to it and I agree completely with your lineup. I have a feeling Hughes will be in there though.

Why would you play Philbin over Hughes, Philbin has been utterly atrocious. I’d go
Ratch
Thewlis
Mautatia
King
Ashton
Williams
Widdop
Coops
Clark
Mulhern
Holmes
Currie
Longstaff/Clark Bench: Longstaff/Clark, Butler, Hughes, Bullock

Philbin and Hughes have both been really poor IMO, why drop Danny Walker for either of them?

I'd like to see Rob Butler given a chance as Philbin has been really poor but realistically is he going to be any better? We need the strongest front row available for this one, I think Philbin should get this game and if he doesnt improve Butler gets a go next week and Philbin has to earn his place back.

I agree with you but we know it’s just wishful thinking, both Hughes and Philbin will play. If it was me I would throw the kid Derbyshire in but I didn’t include him because I think unless there is an injury doubt to King or Mata’utia he won’t get in

Think we need the extra forward against saints to be honest, even longstaff in there bring abit of energy and get the line speed going.

I love Danny but I think he got steamrolled last week, might be worth him sitting this one out.

Based on our squad I expect we’ll be:

Welsby
Simm
Hopoate
Percvial
Makinson
Lomax
Dodd
Walmsley
Roby
Lees
Batchelor
Matautia
Knowles

Lussick
Paasi
LMS
Sironen

Games like this are the rare occasions I miss Steve Price

You should have this one wrapped up by half time. Anything can happen though I suppose.

Ratchford
Thewlis
Mata’utia
King
Ashton
Widdop
Williams
Mulhern
Clark
Cooper
Currie
Holmes
Longstaff

Bullock
Hughes
Butler
Walker

This is what i would go with but i don't think Powell will drop Philbin and i think J.Clark will get the nod over Longstaff.

I think this is a game where it's a free hit for DP in the sense that I'm not expecting to win. It's more about the performance and showing more spirit and desire for as much of the 80 minutes that we can. DP could make some changes, without too many complaints if we get beat.

Friday night posts “at least we used to beat Saints when Price was our coach”.

One of the reasons when I posted my idea of the 17 was/is more in hope of let’s try something different.

100% agree with this

Should be a good atmosphere. Single tickets in all but two blocks of the seated sections and the home end behind the sticks about to sell out. I suspect any late rock ups will end up in your end, so shouldn't be too far from capacity.

Looking forward to it, it'll be interesting to see if your hoodoo-ish against us continues under Powell or whether that left with Pricey. You'll be mad up for it I imagine after the awful showing against Catalans.

Let's hope it is not a whitewash but a well contested match for the good of the game as a whole.

Forum ban for mentioning St**e P**ce

The hoodoo only applies in knock out games. If we are loads better than last week we are still up against it. You never know, at the minute we could be inconsistent rather than bad, we have a chance.

Tonight's team baring any late changes due to injuries in the warm up is......

Ratchford
Thewlis
Matautia
King
Ashton
Williams
Widdop
Cooper
D Clarke
Bullock
Holmes
Currie
Hughes

J Clarke
Walker
Philbin
Mulhern

That's as expected then, Philbin and Hughes need big games tonight I think. Longstaff can count himself as very unlucky IMO.

Yep, no surprises here with DP's selection.