From Wanes piece on the website

Thomas Leuluai - between 6-10 weeks
Gil Dudson - 10-12 week
Paul Prescott and Ben Flower back in the next couple of games
Stuart Fielden - 6-7 weeks
Harrison Hansen - 4 or 5 weeks
Paddy is about another 6 weeks off

Good timing with the run of games coming up. Looks like we should have most back for the CCF (if we get there), and Dudson back just in time for the play-offs

i'm getting less and less confident fielden will every play for us again.

I think Stu will do everything in his power to pull a jersey this year. He's OOC so its not only trying to earn a contract extension with us its about putting himself on the market to show hes worthy of a decent contract wherever he ends up. This next contract will probably be the last in his playing career and he needs to prove hes worthy of it and his body can cope with the rigours of super league if he wants to make a decent amount of money

How many other teams could cope with those injuries? All of those players would be in the 17 other than maybe Dudson or Flower if they were fit.

I don't think many teams other than maybe Warrington could cope without their best number 7, starting SR, best winger (MOS) and goal kicker, while also missing 4 props including your highest paid and most experienced prop!

How would Leeds do without Burrow, Peacock, Hall, JJB, Bailey, Kirke and Griffin?

How would Saints do without Lomax, Perry, Meli, Wilkin, LMS, Puletua and Clough?

And yet we have just finished the toughest run of games we have had for a good few years and won them all!


With a slightly easier run of games from now untill the end of the season, hopefully these players can rest up and be ready for the back end.

It'd be nice to have Hansen back for the CC semi and hopefully the lads like Prescott and Flower will come through their comebacks unscathed.

I'd be wrapping the likes of Tomkins, Finch, McIlorum and Hock in cotton wool now in the build up to the Leeds game starting on Monday against Widnes.

These injuries could work in our favour. Apart from fresher legs coming in to share the load, we'll have potentially 7 props fighting for 4 (2 start, 2 bench) spots, plus a fight for back row spots when HH gets fit. Farrell won't want lose his place, Tuson is having his best season yet, Hock doesn't need an explanation, and Hughes is looking like he's settled in to SL just fine. I expect we'll see some big games from these boys at the business end of things.

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TL hasn't missed a single game yet and you're taking about how well you've coped!

That is quite funny.

Fairpoint actually! But I was meaning all the injuries we have had recently in general.

Watch us cope without Tommy though

I'm not sure if he's 'injured' per se, but Tuson had some light strapping on his ankle when I saw him at 9's tonight.

What's up with Sam Powell? How long's he out for?

Spoke to him after the Leeds game and he seemed pretty confident that he would be back in August just in time for the Cup final should we get there.

I know that even before injuries Fielden maybe hasn't shown his best for Wigan, but I still find it sad how many people seem to completely forget just how good he was at his peak. I know at the Bulls he was in a dominant pack, but he shone for GB as well for a couple of years, where you could hardly say our pack was dominant.

It would be nice if he could get back on the field for next season at least and show some real form.

Agreed. Stuart Fielden is up there as one of the best props in the game over the last 20 years for me. I think his body has suffered over the couple of season as a result of all the 80 minute matches he played in his time before Wigan.
I really admire Fielden as a player and for consistency, he was up there with Morley and Peacock. I'm glad peacock got back from his injury and really hope big Stu can do the same.

He broke his leg v Wire U20's in March. He's back in training so would expect him to be playing soon.