No O'Loughlin or Smith, but Bateman, Farrell, Sarginson and Williams included. With my Wigan hat on, I'm pleased that Lockers has been left out, it will let him have the full off season to put his feet up and fully recover - the first for a while!

So would I , but as to who will make the 17 I think there are endless permutations possible. Quite interesting really.

Will there be coaches run from Wigan (either organised by the Club, or anyone else) to Huddersfield for the England game, please?

I've said this somewhere else but people have very short memories of character if they want a ear biting loud scouse mouth for a captain, I couldn't think of a worse captain in the history of sport

He isn't calm enough under pressure to be captain IMO. He's too emotional and at times of crisis, I find him a bit like his mate Jon Wilkin in that his bottom lip goes and he can be a bit sulky.

It's Burgess all the way for me. Aside from those two I can only really think of Hill or Hodgson as potential alternatives.

Ideally the captain is someone who will be on the pitch for the full 80 minutes. You cannot dictate from the dugout.