Looks like we now have more options for next year www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... &type=news Dont know much about him apart from he is highly rated as a back rower. What are peoples thoughts? We will potentially have a huge backline if some of the potentials make the spot(s) there own. EDIT - typo corrected

Looks like we now have more options for next year www.wiganwarriors.com/WContent.a ... &type=news Dont know much about him apart from he is highly rated as a back rower. What are peoples thoughts? We will potentially have a huge backline if some of the potentials make the spot(s) there own. EDIT - typo corrected

I would love to see him have a run. He has good hands and seems to understand the game as it flows, putting him in the right position to defend and attack.

He is a big lad and is used to doing the hard work, but with the right training he could be awesome at centre or the second row.

We seem to be building a few players in this mould and it could be gerat for the team long term to have such a powerful and fast back line.

Watch this space eh !

So we'll have two second rowers (Hughes and Lloyd) competing for the left centre spot, and a centre (Gelling) competing for a second row spot. I wonder if Wane will start training Iain Thornley at second row now to complete the set

In view of the fact that there are so few centres around, it makes sense to give young, mobile forwards a look.

At the start of last year when I watched the under 20's I said that Lloyd looked like he could be a decent option at centre so I won't go back on that without at least seeing him play there.

It's not quite the same as moving someone like Hughes into the centres because Lloyd is still relatively new to the game and therefore his best position might not have been found yet. He was a centre or fly half in rugby union so you'd expect him to have at least some of the skills required for an outside back.

Versatility can help a young player get some game time if their favoured position isn't available, even if it just gives them a better chance of making the bench.

Conversions from Second Row to Centre and vice versa happen all the time. Non story really.....in the sense that he's looking at this as an option.

Heard he and Thornley are the centres on Sunday?

Makes sense, keep out options open n that. Hope to see him get a few more runs in the 1st team this season

I hope we get to see all of the young pretenders on Sunday it will be great to see who's likley to get games this year and seperate the Boys from the Men, aslo there a lot of divided opinions on here from time to time so it will be good to see if what people say about various players is displayed on the pitch come sunday! Either way ive been deprived of Rugby League for too long now so the game is good timing!

SW has named 24 players for the game.
Keeping up with the interchanges will be fun.

Players who can play variety of positions are invaluable in the modern day game. Especially now with 10 interchanges.

That's why I would prefer too see Sam Powell or Liam Carberry in the squad rather than Logan Tomkins.

Agreed. Don't rate Logan. If his second name was different I doubt he'd be at the club

No further news on Carberry leaving?

No I was surprised when I saw his name on the team sheet. It was only a rumour but the source is usually very reliable

I'm guessing he'll be too old for the u19's?

You'd have to think with his apparent place in the pecking order at Wigan (behind Logan and Sam P) that he'd be better served looking elsewhere to progress his career.

I'm with you on this unfortunately. Can see him going the way of Mellor & Marsh by 2014.

Any idea who will play on the right wing Rogues? I assume Burgess will play on the left

Dom Manfredi and / or Joe Bullock I would think.

Are either of them any good?

I think it would be a mistake to lose Carberry.

He has run at number 13 for the most of 2012 and has shown himself to be a proper hard hitting defender. Could be a big name for the future as he has a great training ethic too. I dare to say a natural leader on the field as we have seen him direct the play very well this year.

It would be a terrible shame to lose him from the squad, but he will no doubt have to consider what is best for his own career if he is offered anywhere else to go.

I know you cannot hold on to every decent player, but he would be up there with Williams and Powell on my list.

Who ever we have in the , they will need time to settle. Goulding and Charnley will only continue to improve, (not that I'm saying they didn't do brilliantly last year). Richards knows the game inside out on the left wing so he'll have a lot of work to do in helping the new guy come through. Thornley looks big enough and quick enough for the position. I think he just needs to be polished into the finished article.

For me Thornley is the most likely candidate to replace Pat and I anticipate that is what he is being groomed for. I know we have a couple of young wing prospects but it is up to them to move up the pecking order.

I was not aware that Lloyd had a background as a half in union. I think the skills he used there will be of great benefit to a League centre.

Will be very interesting to see how he gets on.