Chuffed for him. He looked very good in pre season and won’t let us down.

Leeming available as well

I'm happy with Hill, great prospect in the Academy and Reserves with exceptional footwork and rugby nouse, he has added go-forward and strength to his game over the off-season and pre-season. Did wonder if they would bring Chan in for cover across all the pack.

Another close to there for an option could be Newtown Working mens club who should also be showing the game. Good, cheap pint in there too.

Park up in one of the streets nearby either of these and you should be good, both walking distance to the stadium.

I agree that Newtown is a good place to park up. There's also the Queens Arms near Aldi, always has the rugby on the TV's as you walk past.

Thanks to everyone for responding on the pre-game pubs - MattyB, NickyKiss, BoredWiganer, [Gareth, Itchy Arsenal, stpatricks, thanks to you all and apols if I missed anyone.

No problem.
If you are into your beer The Anvil and Swan& Railway are a good bet.
If you like a good pint of Guinness then Jawbone is spot on.

A Wigan ref. A bent mrp. Penrith treating it as a jolly. Home field advantage.

If Wigan don’t win this it will be embarrassing

Enjoy the game Robert

[url=https://twitter.com/Saints1890/status/1760393961699762263Classy video from Saints wishing the club good luck[/url

And yet nothing could be as embarrassing as being you.

No problem i am meeting up with friends in the Prince of Wales (Jawbone) on Saturday before the match.

Mate, we're more experienced at this than you. We know the score.

Whatever happens, we'll have a rare old time come Saturday.

You meanwhile will be sitting at home. As usual.

If we don't win Saturday then we'll just have to beat them next year when we meet them.

The number of ticket requests on social media and forums is significant. I do wonder how many we could have sold had capacity at the DW not been an issue - 30k? 35k?

Wouldn't surprise me if we see ticket touts outside the ground.



Can't wait!!!

Got some Penrith shirts in the Wigans shop. I’d imagine they’ll fly off the shelf.

Penrith team.

Edwards
Turuva
Tago
May
To’o

Cole
Cleary

Fisher-Harris
Kenny
Leota
Garner
Martin
Yeo

Peachy
Smith
Henry
Eisenhuth

That’ll take some beating.

The spine of Cleary, Edwards and Yeo gets plaudits but stopping Fisher Harris, Leota and Martin in the first 20 will be key. Martin is the best back rower in the world IMO.

Their bench is lacking a big of punch with the departure of Leniu

The team is also lacking Crichton and Luai from last year.

Trying your very best there to try and downgrade the Penrith team to give you some sort of moral score from your victory last year in a match they openly say they weren't taking seriously. Pretty sure they are playing their full strength side are they not? They didn't do that last year. If you win the league you might be able to play them again next year. That won't be happening though will it. You are years off winning another title due to short sighted decisions of your playing squad that has set you back bout 5 seasons. Yesterdays news. Hull KR are closer to a title than St Helens.


PS - Don't mention that we are missing Thompson, Nsemba, Walters and Havard, but don't worry. We will be sure to let you know if we win that we beat Penrith's first team with our second choice front rowers.

Wow. Just pointing out that they are missing a couple of others that NSW omitted when he mentioned Leniu.

They were at full-strength last year by the way with the exception of injured players, the same as this year. Of course we were told by Wigan fans that Edwards was "rested" so by the same score Luai must be too.......

Not sure we have too many short sighted decisions when we have promoted a lot of our Academy lads to the first team environment. As Wigan do, we continue to produce very good players and that's not going to stop any time soon.

I'll have you a charity bet that HKR will not win a title before we do again.

Can you bookmark a post on here?

Crighton isn't missing he's left. That's like saying we're missing KPP.



Come on Stu, we both know this Penrith team would wipe the floor against both of our teams 7 times out of 10 (preseason) and 9 times out of 10 (midseason). You can't surely be downplaying them as others such as Mav on twitter is doing for the windup? Unless you are Mav of course

Stu I’ve been dreading you being up Luai and Edwards

very similar as you say.

Just brought up Leniu from a pack perspective.

The way Penrith keep losing players (Burton, Kapewell, Kikau, Korisua etc) but keep the machine rolling is incredible.

That was more to point out that they played against us last year when apparently they played the Reserves....

I've turned down a freebie and I'm going to Huddersfield instead but will hopefully avoid the score and watch when I get in. Should be a good game.

Literally nobody has every said Penrith played their reserves last year. It was a great win Stu but you seem to want to keep going over old ground about Wigan fans saying Penrith maybe didn't treat the game as seriously as they could have. Even when people admit their preparation for this year seems much the same, it's not helping you get over the fact that people may think that about last year. If you don't believe it, then that is absolutely fine but I'm not sure what you want. If it is every single person to admit Penrith were 100% on their game and treated it as they would an NRL GF, you'll be waiting a long time.