The Wigan squad to face Bradford is as follows.




Squad.

Wigan Warriors: John Bateman, Matt Bowen, Josh Charnley, Tony Clubb, Dom Crosby, Jamie Doran, Liam Farrell, Ben Flower, Darrell Goulding, Jack Hughes, Jordan James, Dom Manfredi, Sean O'Loughlin, Sam Powell, Dan Sarginson, Matty Smith, Ryan Sutton, Scott Taylor, George Williams.

Very strong squad, should hammer Bradford. Good opportunity for Doran if he picks up a bench spot. Is Gelling injured, rested or dropped?

Probably rested, with an eye on the short turnaround for the Salford game on Thursday

I'd go-

Bowen
Charnley Goulding Sarginson Manfredi
Williams Smith
Taylor Powell Clubb
Farrell Hughes Bateman

Bench- Flower Sutton Crosby Doran

James to miss out and Lockers to rest for Salford.

Team is

Bowen, Charnley, Goulding, Sarginson, Manfredi, Williams, Smith, Flower, Powell, Crosby, Bateman, Farrell, O'Loughlin

Taylor, Hughes, Clubb, Sutton

Loosing 12 - 4 HT Bilko say we are rubbish half backs not clicking today.

Do you do the lottery as well?

Losing to Bradford.



Great job Waney.

At least Warrington are going to lose as well (it looks like).

Top spot seems well out of reach now.

I was right, that squad should have hammered Bradford!

Very poor performance, even though our team is relatively experienced they are still very young, we need to bring in some experienced older players especially in the back row

It should but when a team turns up goes through the motions shows little respect to a relegated team you get what you deserve. Sounded like a team told not to go all out but to save a little for Thursday. We got what we deserved today.

Regardless of who we play 2 points against Salford or the Bulls will be the same on the league table.

I wonder if this is the point where we bend over for the opposition until the end of the season again. Not that last year was tactical at all....ahem!

Seen on some threads on here that we have now lost the LLS due to Bulls beating us.

We were never winning it Wane will rest as many as he can once players start returning after all it worked last season. Just hope Gelling is back asap. Best centre we have and Sarginson had a bad game today.

It always makes me giggle that all the headlines are "Bulls' shock win over Warriors", while Wakey's win over Wire is given the equivalent of "meh".

You'd think we were famous or som't.

That was a terrible, terrible performance. So bad in fact, some of the mistakes so called senior players made I couldn't help but feel were made on purpose. We are not playing to finish top that's for sure. It's obviously worth it if we go on to do what we did last year but who's fault is it that the league has come to this? No way did those players go into thy match to win today.

TBH, it looked like a lot of your players thought they'd already won before kick off and that the game was a formality.

Bradford have been building to a win since Jimmy Lowes took over. Your lot came for a relaxing Sunday afternoon and didn't get one.

Nail on the head IMO. Shockingly complacent performance from a pretty strong wigan squad and we got what we deserved.

I wish SW would make a decision on who plays 6 and who plays 9 because swapping Williams and Powell round mid-game doesn't work. I, along with quite a few others, have been saying this all season, but Sarginson isn't a centre in a million years. Not having a go at individuals though, we were awful 1-17 today.

Awful performance they looked and played like it was a Sunday stroll.

Be interesting to see what Wane has to say as not one player was up for the challenge.

It looked like they couldn't even be bothered to put players on their backs today, players like gale and Gaskell were frequently standing up in the tackle and allowed a quick pub. Half-d effort, but will it matter come September/October? Probably not. Therein lies the problem with the current structure. The aim is to reach the end of season fit and healthy no matter what position, even 5th or 6th would be ok. On a side note, Sarginson was terrible, still has not learned when to give the ball to his winger.

Today is a prime example of why I loathe the current play off structure. Instead of being gutted about losing to the relegated side it practically means nothing come round 27. 2/3 games in the play offs are now the only games that count.

This is so true, top 8 in a 14 team league is a joke.