has no one told you we can only play half a team because this is the year of the wolf.

Think that's where we wont struggle to be honest, 3 days extra rest, Wane will have them fired up and hopefully get on top very early

According to Brett Finch on Rugby League Extra, he is playing on Saturday.

You know I really was thinking that he will play. I'm sure we announced O'Loughlin as injured and not in the squad last weekend. Mind games from Wane?

Watch this space.

I'm not believing anything until mid afternoon on Saturday...

Even if Finch is out, He will be out permanently next year so these lads need game time this season. We are 3 clear, Finch needs to be fully fit and Powell needs the experience. Hopefully we come through Saturday with a win and have it clinched for Stains so he can get some big derby game experience too. I have a feeling he will be pivotal next season if he can stay injury free. He has a year of RL to catch up on.

Was it a live interview or recorded from a few days back?

I'm really struggling to get excited about this one for the simple fact that it means nothing towards who wins the league. What should be an absolute corker and a title decider has been watered down imo by the fact that we'll probably meet again in the playoffs when this result will mean absolutely nothing.

It'll be reet, either Finch plays or he doesn't next season he is not here. In the grand scheme of things it is a nothing match. We'll still win the LLS whether we win or not.

For the Wolves fans saying "we beat you at your place and we played badly." Yes you did on both counts, but two things to take into account from ourselves. Firstly if Eric didn't start brain farting and allowe you back into it chances are the result would be different and we play better away from the DW, just ask Leeds or Saints what it was like to play against a weakend Wigan on their own patch.

Why are so many folk assuming that the game means nothing as we will beat Saints in the final game of the season?

Just because we have beaten Saints three times this season doesn't give us the divine right to assume we will roll them over again. If Wire win on Saturday they are just one point behind us so if I assume (like a lot of other folk are certainly doing) that both Wire and us win all the remaining games up to round 27 and we still have Saints to play in the last match - nothing would give our friends o'er the hill more pleasure than denying us the LLS even though winning the game may not alter their own standing in the league. End result? Wire win the LLS by one point like they did last year.

Did Jack Drearden ask Finchy where he was going next year? I imagine not but the answer would have been interesting

We need to win EVERY game, end of

It was a live interview Finch confirmed he had been running and would train with rest of squad. Finch sounded confident he would play

Available on listen again here. www.bbc.co.uk/radiomanchester/latest-programmes

Available on listen again here. www.bbc.co.uk/radiomanchester/latest-programmes

we all know what will happen! someone will ''get injured'' and surprisingly finch will be fit again and come into the squad as a replacement and start at 6

Finch explained the situation very well, and no doubt it's similar to the situation with O'Loughlin last weekend. Finch hasn't trained all week so can't have been passed fit to play before the squad was announced so wasn't included. He was back running yesterday, will hopefully train today and if he's fit enough he will be added to the squad today or will be given until the last possible moment. It was the same with O'Loughlin last weekend.

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He asked him, but Brett didn't tell him, he said he wasn't sure what he's doing yet.

Finch is a blow but Powell did a job for us last week and will step up again

finch and hansen named in team on sporting life web site.

Really glad Finch and Hansen played...I'm not sure many Wigan fans would say the same!

If they weren't fit, they shouldn't have played. Wane said he had to play Finch as Sam Powell was unfit. Why was Powell warming up then?? I would have preferred that we played the younger lads over anyone who is injured.

Shades of the semi final again, players coming back after a number of weeks out who just didnt look up to speed. They may well have been fit but they obviously werent match fit and up to playing in a game of that intensity.

If Finch hadn't played and Powell or Lockers had played 6 and we'd still got beat convincingly people would have been slating that decision. Wane took a risk with Finch and it didn't pay off.

In my opinion Powell was fit, Wane is just covering his back as to why he played Finch.