wigan at home on friday night

perfect opportunity to get back on track and winnable game

cant afford to be slipping up at home many more times with the relegation battle heating up

no mcgillvary is a big blow for us our best player

wonder if frawley will come back in to partner gaskell this time

still stuck on the wings, id go

mcintosh
jake wardle
turner
cudjoe
murphy

need some experience now, senior is too much of a target and not matching upto it could do with a break too

unlikely though, maybe dom young will keep his place too!

God no way should Murphy go back to the wing. Hes like a snail. Dom Young retains his place for me.

Ikahihifo to come in now too so that Taai can go to the 2nd row to cover Joe Wardle. About time we bring back Ferguson too.

Darnell
Dom Young
Cudjoe
Turner
Louis, Innes or Jake Wardle

can ferguson return yet with the loan deal terms?

certainly should bring him back and also get ikahihifo back in

rolled again by saints in the forwards far too easy just like at cas...... we need some size in the pack for goodness sake is woolford blind

dom young and senior on the wings....wigan be rubbing their hands with that , would certainly need turner and cudjoe inside them both if thats the way woolford goes

ferguson is back from loan spell at fev....

I would hope that Seb would play against Wigan. They showed something of an interest in signing him although the price was too high- but likely that would give him an incentive to have a good game.
Leroy must play- without him there’s too much inexperience in the back line.
Woolford has got this wrong for me.
They have a point to prove- so let them try, if they don’t match up then drop them again.

No Cudjoe (shocker), Bruno, Jake Wardle or Dom Young.

Ollie Wilson and Ollie Roberts named.

God knows how we we will line up. Im guessing:

Darnell
Louis Turner Murphy Innes
Gaskell Russell/Frawley
Matagi O Brien
Mellor Hewitt/Roberts
Taai

Seb, Wilson, English, Leeming

1 of Hewitt/Roberts and 1 of Frawley/Russell to miss

https://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2019 ... PMVyqVvzqE Wigan 19

https://www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2019 ... PMVyqVvzqE Wigan 19

Ferguson is in 19 instead of Wilson

will be very disappointed if we dont win this one tomorrow or at very least go very close.

whos wearing yellow?!

Agree.

Does anyone know why Leroy isn't playing? I was under the impression that he was fit. Given our injury list, not to mention the increasingly precarious position we find ourselves in, I would have hoped to hear that Leroy was eager to return to action and step up when we desperately need him. Maybe next week, or the week after that...

it was same last season with cudjoe, he seems to lack confidence to come back into the fold , but they have been saying when he does return they want him to stay returned and not get injured again so they have to make the right call, hes experienced enough to know when hes ready

Really starting to doubt this, alot of players are willing to put their hand up ASAP to get playing for their team where Cudjoe really seems to be dodging every game he can. basically getting a wage for nothing at the moment if he is fit and saying no.

everyone just got to trust cudjoe will come back when he feels he’s ready no point him coming back and getting injured and being out for 6 month

Fairly decent first half , dreadful second last 10 minutes bit of fight and decent fight at the end so are we even gonna have enough players for next week

Be extremely interesting to see how the RFL deal with Willie Isa- I’ve not ever seen that happen in the pro game before.
Tbh the ref had himself to blame for the melee- he showed weakness all game- he should have had a word with both sides when Hardaker was getting feisty instead he ignored it and so it escalated.
But Willie Isa should be very very ashamed of himself. That behaviour is really the bottom of the barrel and something the RFL should come down hard on. They have a lot of inexperienced refs atm and if Isa isn’t dealt with harshly I dread to think how that will affect things going forward.

What did he do Jools

There was a melee, one of ours was (rightly) shown a yellow card then Willie Isa was (rightly) shown a yellow card but Isa had to be held back from the ref by a couple of players, a trainer and another match official.

We were far too soft defending in our own 20, and Wigan simply played the percentages and attacked hard near our line, they didn't have to do anything special to beat us, and our softness in defence is very worrying going forward. We need a couple more wins over the teams we are capable of beating (Hull KR, Leeds, London, Wakefield with injuries) to be safe. Hull was the anomalous result for us, we are a pretty poor side this year, with some very promising youngsters, but we really need some good quality halves and Props if we are gong to improve next year.

I said earlier in the year that i hadn't seen anything that made me think the senior twins were going to make the step up to SL yet, i now have seen what i was hoping for, the inside ball for our first try was very skillful, and their ability under the high ball is getting better every week, looking very good for the future from them. What the hell do we need Uate for... isn't he getting homesick yet?

For info next week Wakey have Tupou, Ashurst, Randall and possibly Kirmond back. Will make a big difference to us.

well i wanted to see us win or at least go close to winning but nowhere near, men against boys quite literally! poor goal line defence , far too easy to score, we are too inexperienced as a team and frawley, matagi and roberts just dont cut it.

woolford spoke of no desire after the match

its just too cushty down at the giants, culture has been bad for so long, happy to just pick up a wage , might take relegation scare now to make them work... will see. shouldnt take that though should it.

Willie Isa incident, no news at disciplinary regarding this.

Because, as I've posted on the Wigan board, the 'incident' was the biggest non-event in the history of the game. Unless you call veering off line for two steps and saying something to someone (not clear who or what) whilst nowhere near the ref (who makes no reaction whatsoever) an 'incident'.

Thanks Phuzzy, I will look at post.

Dangerous precedent set.
It’s no wonder the standard of refs is increasingly being questioned- who’d want to do the job when aggressive behaviour towards an official is ignored.