"Wigan make two squad changes for the game with Oliver Gildart and John Bateman both missing out with shoulder problems"

Makes sense, if someone is not 100% its a long season so why risk anyone, we have the squad to rotate.

Not heard that before. After his effort in the WCC I'm not surprised to see him sit out a few games, especially if he has a knock to the shoulder.

I've not heard anything about that and if there was any sort of incident, I cannot see that it was overly serious as Bateman has been tweeting his support for the team. He was nowhere to be seen after the 'incident' last year!

Don't know how serious it was. It 100% happened though. The club should put a block on him boozing. We all have or have had one mate who can't handle his pop. I see Rangi Chase has been upto his old antics too. Although on tonight's performance you wouldn't think so

He seems an unusual character does Bateman and you can only hope they keep him on the straight and narrow because he's such an important player for us.

As for Chase, Cas don't need him. He is a loose cannon that a club on the up don't need to take risks on. He's clearly not wired right when he's putting pictures of a tackle on twitter where a player gets seriously injured just to get a rise and then claims he meant no offence. The bloke knew exactly what he was doing.

Bateman looked in a bad way to me from the start of the WCC, spent at fair bit of time at 2 in from the wing. I think any rest will do him good.