St Helens were poor last week though.
Quins were definately improved but if we play like we have done at home all season they won't have a chance IMO.

I agree, but I dont see the logic in you wanting to play a full strength team against a championship club on a great big pitch, but then rest players against a SL club.

Me neither.

You'll score 100 points.

Maguire is the boss and gets paid for what is best of WRLFC if thats playing a full strengh side against a weaker side he is not dis-respecting the cup/sheffield, i cant see sheffield seeing a SL club in their home town/city for a few years so why deprive the sheffield public of seeing the top of league team.

Whilst I apreciate the sentiment, why is 'giving the Sheffield public the chance to watch a top of the league team' in any way in the best interests of WRLFC? Not sure I follow that logic...

We too (Saints that is ) have also put out our strongest side and our fans are of the same opinion as most of the wigan fans, in that they were hoping to see some of the young players in action.

We rested a few at Barrow at the same stage in the cup and we were lucky to win. They played the better rugby.
I can't fault Maguire so far and I'm not going to start now. Plenty of our young players are getting good experience on loan so they don't need to play for Wigan unless there are injuries.

If anyone wants to watch the young lads play go watching under 20`s and under 18`s . In fact under 18`s play warrington at orrell on saturday i think

Nah he said why on the lastest wigan warriors podcast, its simply that hes treating it like every other game an putting his strongest side out

TBH i think they would rather be deprived than embarrassed

Thats what makes me admire the way he has gone about his job. He doesnt give a toss what other people think he should be doing or what has been done in the past. He just does it his own way and wants to do everything as close to perfect as possible.

The ONLY right thing to do IMO is to play our strongest possible team.

The rugby league season (CC included) is about momentum. The more you play together, the better you get as a unit.

IF, we do start thumping them, it becomes an opportunity to try a few moves against a 'live' defence. Better this than it becomes a struggle and our more experienced players left in the squad have to expend extra energy by doing more than they should have to.

If I were in Maguires shoes, I'd be looking to nil them.

I'm glad he's gone for this squad, shows the impact he wants to make at this club, and at the same time, could make an example out of Sheffield, perhaps wanting to give the fans a trophy for the first time since 2002?

Quite. It's amazing what you can get away with when you are 4 points clear at the top of the table, isn't it?

I think complacency has been one of our biggest issues in so-called easy matches in recent years. And I'm not just thinking about Barrow last year, very unnerving though that was. While I don't think there's much danger that Sheffield will do us, I still think it's better to respect the opposition, send our top boys and hope to win with a good score. The last thing we want is to get into a hard scrap that could go either way.

Even the best sides can come unstuck if they take the mickey. Remember Oldham v Wigan in '87.

I look forward to seeing the first team in this outing. Hopefully we can get a bit of momentum going with the forwards getting on the score sheet.

Walker and Farrell wouldn't have been in it



IMO MM will get away with not putting several younger players in the team with most fans because of what he has done selection-wise already this season such as playing O'Carroll and not Feka, giving Goulding a run and already giving Farrell his début. None of those bar Goulding were forced on MM and we both know none of this would have happened under Noble. So if Noble had named this squad he would have rightly got some stick in comparison to MM because Noble would not have done any of the above already.

I still hope Walker gets his début and Farrell gets another run and as I said previously will be disappointed if they don't but MM is handling the squad differently anyway week by week.

Dave

But Noble dropped players last season & kept players on form in?

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a can of worms......

Once in a blue moon. You will be telling me next because we scored a lot of tries on the wing we played exciting RL under Noble.

Dave

How very dare you!!!!................





.............that's Rogues' job!

I think if you gave MM a choice now of DEFINITELY, 100% CERTAIN, you can win only ONE of the Challenge Cup at Wembley or the Grand Final this season.

I think he would go for the Challenge Cup.

Did we not play attacking RL last season, in which our wingers scored more tries than those of any other team?