Wigan 48 Cas 16
Att: 13,765
MOM: Tommy
First try: Hoffman

30 points start on the coupon, that's very, very big for a SL contest, and the bookies aren't often wrong.

Wigan 30 Cas 14
MOM: Pat
First Try: Pat.
Att: 13,926.

Wigan 46-14 Castleford

1st Try Sam
MOM Sam

Wigan 38
Cas 12

Att: 13,256

I expect your lot to win comfortably, we have 4 players to come back but saving them for Sunday, plus Hudson and Orr are out through niggling injuries, add that to the 5/6 or so injuries we have already.

Don't get me wrong im making no excuses nor do i want us to be hammered, but if it gets us a win on Sunday against the Bulls then we'll be happy.

Given we'll be going with 2 props (assuming Colet gets a ban) I'd happily take a win by even the smallest of margins.

Danny Orr and Hudson are both in your 19 man squad or have i missed something?

Thats exactly why the Challenge cup should never be knocked in comparison to the Superleague title.

In the Challenge cup you cant pick and choose your performances and play for losses one week in the hope of a win the following week.
That thinking by the Cas club will allow Wigan to go top of the league and make inroads into the points difference tally. if that happened in the Cup Castleford quite rightly would take no further part in the competition....

Well he's not exactly saying we're going to lose and get thrashed on purpose. Even if we do lose, I do hope someone at the club realises that Points difference might be a topic for us to focus on too.

30 start is a lot, I'd hope the players for us realise they're better then that, I don't for a second expect us to win but i do hope we give everything.

LOL

Wigan 50 - 6 Cas.

Without Orr playing Chase will have to do everything. We wont have a prayer and i think Sam Tomkins will tear us apart.

Wigan 38
Cas 10

Lowest crowd of the season for a league game.

Rumours circulating that they wont play.

Wigan should really take Cas to the cleaners tomorrow. Whether we will is another matter.

Hudds should have beaten us easily with the team we took to their place earlier in the season. It just doesn't work like that.

Indeed. Although they'd miss Orr and Hudson, Chase showed what a differnce he makes to that team when he was brought on in the reverse fixture. I'm not saying he can win the game by himself, but I wouldn't count on a straight-forward win.

with coley and preccy out we may find it quite difficult, we never play well when we only have 3 props, I fancy wigan 28-10 Castleford. As long as we get the job done I will be happy.

30+ victory for Wigan tonight. Who's going?

Small margin will for Wigan with 2 players out and they won't want to pick up any injuries for Friday - 24-18. Small crowd as it is evening and school day tomorrow so many parents won't let the smaller kids go and then there will be babysitting issues - 11,200

26 -14
att 11,323

Since Easter we've been so short on numbers that it has become commonplace for us to include players with virtually no chance of featuring. We assume it's Matterson's way of trying to keep the opposition coach guessing......desperate times call for desperate measures. Wigan by 40+.

Sam
Charnley
Joel
Carmont
Goulding
Deacon
Finch
Mossop
Leuluai
Lima
HH
Hoffman
O'Loughlin

Tuson
Hock
McIlorum
Farrell

Still a strong team!

Ryan Hudson and Danny Orr fail fitness tests for Cas and are replaced by John Davies and Charlie Martin.

You a social worker by any chance?

...44-20 to Wigan..plenty of errors from both sides in slippy conditions...BTW my son's gone and he has school tomorrow

wigan 58 - 8 rangi chase