Wigan Warriors today announce their squad for Thursday’s Betfred Super League Round 22 game against St Helens, kick-off 7:45pm.
Dan Sarginson is fit again whilst Joe Greenwood returns from injury to face his former club whilst new-signing Chris Hankinson has been included in the 19.

Oliver Gildart is unavailable after sustaining a thumb injury in last week’s defeat to Huddersfield, whilst Sean O’Loughlin and George Williams are still unavailable for selection due to injury.

Wigan Warriors Squad
John Bateman, Tony Clubb, Tom Davies, Morgan Escaré, Ben Flower, Chris Hankinson, Joe Greenwood, Gabe Hamlin, Willie Isa, Sammy Kibula, Tommy Leuluai, Liam Marshall, Romain Navarette, Liam Paisley, Sam Powell, Dan Sarginson, Taulima Tautai, Sam Tomkins, Josh Woods.


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Tough night ahead!!

Tomkins
Davies
Bateman
Sarginson
Marshall
Woods
Powell
Flower
Leuluai
Navarette
Greenwood
Isa
Hamlin

Clubb
Tautai
Paisley / Hankinson
Escare

Tomkins
Davies
Hankinson
Sarginson
Marshall
Woods
Powell
Flower
Leuluai
Clubb
Greenwood
Isa
Bateman

Tautai
Navarette
Hamlin
Escare

I’d go with that. We need Bateman in the middle of the action rattling people and setting the tone.

Fingers crossed Sarginson is fit so we have that option.

Will take an enormous effort just to keep close to them, we’ve too much class missing.

FB Morgan Escaré
RW Tom Davies
RC Chris Hankinson
LC Dan Sarginson
LW Liam Marshall
SO Josh Woods
SH Sam Tomkins
P Romain Navarette
H Tommy Leuluai
P Ben Flower
SR Willie Isa
SR Joe Greenwood
LF John Bateman

S Tony Clubb
S Sam Powell
S Taulima Tautai
S Gabe Hamlin

Too little pace in the halves if we go with Woods and Powell IMO.

I don't know - Iv seen worse Wigan teams beat better Saints teams. At least we can put out a pack of regular first teamers. They're heavy favourites but if we keep the mistakes and penalties to a minimum we've got a chance. They'll probably get us out wide in the end but you never know.

I know, and on those occasions it was an enormous Wigan effort that won it! Not saying we can’t win, course we can. I agree it’s on the flanks they’ll hurt us.

Although I do not like losing to Saints it would be better than losing to the teams just below us again. We do what we can tomorrow and see who is avaliable for the next game. In some ways a perfect place to throw the new lad in because we have low expectations of the game. Just hope that he does not become the whipping boy.

Just watched the pre-game interviews on Wigan TV and Powell hasn’t trained at all this week. He’s spent time with the Physio and should be ok to play. Without Lockers, Williams, Burgess, Gildart, Sutton and Farrell who are all nailed on 1st choice 17 players it’s a huge task ahead. Saints are flying and their bubble needs bursting and quick!

Not sure if anybody has saw this, but if Saints get more points than Hull this weekend they have already secured a place in the semi finals. This is a phenomenal stat when we haven’t even got to the Super 8s so fair play to them.

Would be fantastic to burst that bubble tomorrow but as much as I’d love it, I can’t see anything but a comfortable Saints win. Hope I’m wrong!!

I’m confident we’ll go pretty close. I’m sure Wane will have them fired up and as good as Saints have been they aren’t unbeatable by any stretch. They like Cas last year have pulled well clear at the top but I don’t think they’ve been anything like as impressive as Cas as a team and have had to dig out more wins they did.

Saints 8 point favourites, never known us be underdogs at home for years

Hope you are right but I can only see a drubbing on the cards tonight.
The centres and halves look particularly slow and very much untested re the new lad.
Saints have a very good defence and I just cant see us crossing the whitewash enough times to get even close to them. I never ever want to get beaten by the Saints but if we can keep the difference under 20 I will be pretty surprised
As I say hope you are right and I am wrong yet again!

Wigan to smash them

i hope

Never write off the underdog.

Poop, even I'M not confident about tonight

Looking forward to watching this later as a neutral but is this fixture still the biggest one for Wigan fans thesedays?

Some mouthy Wire fans having giving it the big 'un across various forums and Facebook of late saying their games against you is now the biggest in English RL and how they are now your biggest rivals etc.

Wire are irrelevant

Wigan Leigh is a bigger game to Wigan fans than Wigan Wire.... While it's not always an SL fixture, it has far more passion.

BTW, it's always their year..

There've been some good Wigan v Wire games in recent times, but Wire are still on the look-out for their new rivals and they keep getting knocked back.

For example, when Wigan were fighting relegation, Wire were trying to claim that they were Saints' new rivals - and the Saints fans weren't having it.

Wire have never really recovered from the loss of Widnes as a major force, so it's not all their own fault and I don't blame them for being peeved. It's often the case that you can estimate someone's quality from the quality of their foes.

I think we've a very good chance of beating Saints. Leeds ran them close and with more thought could have won. Ferres puts the ball down nearer the posts when scoring Leeds would have won.
They stopped Barba by kicking into touch end of sets instead of allowing him to run at them.
That's one thing we could do to slow them down.
Leeds also lost by not taking the 2. When Sam does this we usually lose, when he takes the 2 we win.
I'm sure Waney has the right tactics and he will certainly have them fired up.

I think that’s a decent starting XIII to be honest.

In that formation saints would just kick bombs to the left edge and we would all cringe.

I’d be happy to see us copy that tactic but doubt we will. Wane is huge on keeping the ball in play to try and help us gain an advantage from what he views as our superior fitness on a lot of other sides at the back end. I’ve heard plenty of talk from players over recent years of us giving cheap possession and field position to the opppsition by accidentally kicking dead.

I just can’t see that Wane will rip that up even to combat Barba.

Barba having a late test on his ribs, I am not convinced he will play

Confirmed no Barba or Percival, Sarge and Bateman both play for us.