20-man squad https://wiganwarriors.com/blog/2024/04/ ... r-leigh-4/

20-man squad https://wiganwarriors.com/blog/2024/04/ ... r-leigh-4/

20 man hoping Dupree gets in

Probably hanging fire with the last spot incase Dupree wins his appeal, hope they know what they're doing, somewhat of a risk with the cup game next up

Assuming Dupree is banned we could maybe move O'Neill to 13 to free up Kaide Ellis.

Thompson
Leeming
Ellis
Farrell
Isa
O'Neill

Hill
Mago
Nsemba
Chan

I wouldn't mind that in the slightest and it does on paper at least look like giving us the strongest starting pack. It's going to be those 10 guys in some order anyway (if Dupree is missing).

Is it a little early to ask Leeming to do a full 80 after coming back from injury? Or bring Hampshire on the bench to do the interchange

You could move Chan to 13 and switch O'Neill to 9 when Leeming comes off.

Well Dupree won't be in the 21 as his suspension was upheld.

Leeming is not playing well enough at the moment.

I agree actually but it's an option in the circumstances. The other option is to bring Isa into the middle somewhere and start Nsemba.

Five front rowers down but at least we get three back in a couple of weeks.

Up until Good Friday I thought Leeming had a great start to the season. Unfortunately spilled the ball (albeit one was deliberately ripped out) over the first three times he had it.

We need to be giving Nsemba minutes. If he is fit i can't understand why Isa is in front of him. Great pro but offers next to nothing these days. Field definitely needs a rest. Something is amiss with him. French to 1 and Rocky in at 6. Games have been thick and fast recently and need to start managing the squad a bit. Delighted Hill is back in, the lad is a monster and going to be one of the very best in the future. Chan can take his chance and i'd give Leeming 40 mins. He was a bit unlucky on Friday, he dropped one cold but the other was stripped. Would like to see what Eseh is all about too before Havard and Cooper come back in.

Surely Leeming will play if fit.
MP only named 20 so one would deduce Douglas & Eckersley would be two to be left out. Maybe Hampshire will be the third. I'm sure we'll go with Hill and Chan in the 17.
I'm sure Leigh will be more worried about us than we are them!

Aye, it seems harsh to say Leeming isn’t playing well enough to be considered for a start. I thought he’d been excellent up until Saints, scoring 3 try’s in less than 100 minutes of rugby and really adding to us when he’s come on. He had a tough ten minutes at Saints but these things happen.

I don’t think we will go with Leeming and O’Neill at 9 and 13 but I wouldn’t complain if we do.

They probably will be but I think we’ll see a Leigh side with plenty of desperation and motivation about them. We’re going to need to be right at it to avoid any surprises.

I would, O’Neill is a must at 9. Leeming’s defence needs to improve.

Absolutely! You might be missing a fair few props, but you assembled a squad to deal with that eventuality.

Leigh looking a shadow of last season, particularly in defence and Mulhern now looking unlikely to play, along with Amone, Ipape and Asiata. Even with the two suspensions, the pack that Wigan put out will be far to strong for Leigh. And Leigh's backline isn't exactly going to compensate for that against Field, Miski, Keighran, Wardle, and Marshall

Weather looking rubbish again tomorrow night, not going to bleat on about us being a warm weather team, I'm just sick of getting soaked at the moment

What’s up with Mullern? I’d say he along with the other 3 guys are 4 of Leigh’s top 5/6 players so will be hard for them to get a win.

Leigh do still throw very good shapes at teams in attack so will still be a test.

Calf strain. Coach has said that it's probably less than 50% chance he plays.

I think in attack we're fine. Lam Jnr and Moylan are capable of filling the void that Asiata left as first receiver. But Amone was our top metre maker, Asiata made the most carries and of course Ipape is also missing. They're influential players and I think it's showing in our defence.

I don’t think Mulhern will play either, Leigh have a bigger game next week and therefore I don’t expect Lam to take such a risk.

Job done. Feet up and get ready for next week.

Derek not at the game and complaining about the club’s social media output! I bet he’s glad he missed that one https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/its-a-jo ... age-89854/

Derek not at the game and complaining about the club’s social media output! I bet he’s glad he missed that one https://www.seriousaboutrl.com/its-a-jo ... age-89854/

Excellent win tonight, the attack just clicked into place, much better than anything else we have served up this season so far.

Passes hitting their marks, much more fluidity, much more expansive, finding key offloads, massive cut down on errors. Lightyears ahead of anything else we have produced over the last month or so.

Nsemba with a well deserved man of the match, really put himself about and carried strong. Looking forward to watching him progress. Hill was another one who was brilliant in his time on the field, really come on this year.

Only critique of that performance was that our discipline still needs improvement.

Very positive signs though!

Harvie Hill is well on the way to being a beast of a prop