Is the pitch at Robin Park not viable after the concerts still? It's a nice evening, if they had marketed it, opened the club shop, put the Kingfisher and 1872 bars on there could have been a decent attendance with revenue going back into the club.

Live on Wigan tv tonight
Kick off 7 p.m.

It will. I hope they give him the keys and let him control things because we’ve not see enough of him in terms of responsibility when it’s come to his first team games.

I think Farrimond will have a better idea of controlling the game than Keiron,wont do any harm to let the youngster take control.
So looking forward to see how he and Eckersley/Forber get on.

We rarely do it with 2 experienced halves, heres hoping

Thanks for that. I will watch the first half before I turn out.

Game now NOT being streamed live. Wigan have said they can't get sufficient signal strength from the location at Wigan R.U. Say they will upload it ASAP.

Why don’t they look into these things before the event? It is amateurish!

Not sure how many times Keighran has played HB but Leeming has played their a few times I think for Leeds and Huddersfield

Translation : we don’t want to broadcast our academy getting absolutely mullered by saints academy second team whilst being at home

It’s Wigan, not the top of snowdonia lmao of course there’s signal strength lol

Keighran played a lot of half for Catalan last year I think.

Don’t think he played there that much at Catalans however at Penrith he was moved to the halves from centre in their New South Wales Cup team due to injury and went well earning him a deal at New Zealand Warriors as a “utility”.

He has acted more as cover in the halves and also as a 9 from time to time mainly in NSW Cup at the Panthers and Roosters.

He’s had a week on the training pitch to get used to the role so that should assist with his transition.

For me the key today is getting Wardle the ball as early as possible. He is pure class and whoever defends that channel is in for a tough day at the office (Hopefully)

Weirdly looking forward to the game today. Maybe because I’m not expecting a win so I’m looking forward to just seeing how we go. But the way the build up has gone with all the players missing I think it could be one of those absolute messes of a game that’ll be fun to watch

That isn’t really a proper tactic that will win the game alone.

Full game is now on Wigan tv.

Our lineup is interesting to say the least

How on earth did we lose to this Hull FC team ? They are absolutely awful

and a bit of confusion over ours with Sky posting a different team to what the club have named, hope we've not lost an interchange due to a last minute injury

Just seen it. I think there are some sensible choices given the situation. Batchelor is on to bring the ball out of backfield, Davies is chosen because of his experience, and Wellens can’t risk playing Burns for 80 minutes as he has far more impact off the bench.

Seen on a fb page Forber has dropped out of the 17 named, don't know if true but have we lost an interchange if that's the case ?

Farrell dropped out during warmup it seems

Don't mention that to the Saints fans. They love billing themselves as massive underdogs irrespective of who the opposition are missing.

Who needs Smith's kicking when Kaide Ellis can put up a bomb like that?

And just like that, Batchelor is back on his feet and raring to go as soon as Ellis gets the yellow. I disagree with Saints fans. They are coached well. They all do that part of the game superbly.