Brisbane side to face Wigan

1. Darius Boyd
2. Greg Eden
3. Jordan Kahu
4. James Roberts
5. Corey Oates
6. Anthony Milford
7. Kodi Nikorima
8. Sam Thaiday
9. Andrew McCullough
10. Adam Blair
11. Alex Glenn
12. Matt Gillett
13. Corey Parker

Interchange:
14. Jarrod Wallace
15. Josh McGuire
16. Joe Ofahengaue
17. Travis Waddell
18. Herman Ese’ese
19. Tom Opacic


Strong starting 13, Greg Eden apart - good luck guys, I think you are Super Leagues best shout for a win this weekend!

Feels like a bit of a grudge match this one to me

Cant wait

Lets hope the pitch is in a better state than the Cats game.

It's been relaid, so it should be.

Are there 6 interchanges or is that just a 19 man squad?

Aussie sides always seem to name 6 subs and then narrow it down to four on the night.

They don't look to have many weaknesses. I was impressed with Nikorima against England and he's back up usually so that signals how strong they are. As pointed out you'd have to think Eden is the weakness. He always had a mistake or five in him for HKR so I'd hoping we'll be peppering him with kicks.

Ticket sales look very poor so far which is a massive shame.

You can't buy tickets for the north stand as I think they have sold tickets via the armature clubs for this stand at a discounted price, if so I don't think theses numbers will be in the total ticket sales given out?

Email from the club yesterday confirmed over 15k sold so far...

Shame Jack Reed is missing. Great player and English too.

Good luck lads for one night il be shouting you on. Up the Brits

No Ben Hunt, then?

Suspended.

Shouid have just done a Leigh and played him.

He was very good last season.

Reed is almost as injury-prone as Mossop... Their starting XIII looks strong on paper. Hopefully our English contingent will give Bennett food for thought...

I shall be cheering on my beloved Wigan as well as Leeds out of mutual respect but i just can't bring myself to cheer any St Helens side on. It doesn't matter what it means or who they play i always want them to get stuffed. I will toast every single try they concede so by the end of the night i should be completely obliterated

If it at all helps to calm the nerves, you could always buy a copy of Wiganosophy. I'll be signing copies in the Southstand bar before kick off.

Plus Burgess is turning out for the Roosters so it's only right we support him and his team (don't tell Leeds fans we're doing that though or else they may not think we're being disrespectful enough to ex players).

I think you need to win this if the WCS has any longevity, no excuses really- Edit: actually is Williams playing?
Brisbane's best 3 players last year were Hunt Milford and Reed, 2 are injured whilst milford is playing next to an new centre and a new halves pairing so should be out of timing, plus I dont see much of a kicking game from that team
You guys need to win to give SL some pride, I would usually think we could pull one out the bag but at 8 injured we need a miracle (still backing us though

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I would say the same about Saints with Pearce and JWH out but I think they have some injured as well

Oh no you don't. You don't kop out that easily. We have injuries too you know. Just because SKY don't mention it doesn't mean it isn't true. All 3 sides are up against it. YOU are the league champions and treble winners. Everyone in Australia is expecting you to give North Queensland a game. We will try and do what we have to do but none of the 3 sides can use the injuries argument.

Well in fairness Brisbane have their best players injured, whilst NQC have 16/17 of their grand final team (only missing a winger)
Who do you have injured? I bet theres not 8 first team players out or your captain
Im still backing us to put in a good performance and if our young players step up then we could shock everyone, my point was that your opportunity (as well as Saint's tbf) is about as good as it will get when playing a top NRL team
Therefore if you (or Saints) cant win or even worse get completely outplayed then whats the point in the series?

Sam Tomkins, Joel Tomkins, Dom Crosby, Lee Mossop, George Williams (until told otherwise)

That is 5 STARTING players. I doubt you or Saints could boast that in your injury list although i haven't checked. Anyone would have thought that against Huddersfield we had a full side against an amateur team but SKY conveniently failed to recognize our injury list. We were being put down because our strength in depth was a lot better than Huddersfield's. Blame Paul Anderson, not an injury list.

We cant really call Sam Tomkins an injured player, he hasn't played for Wigan for over two years, play them with what we have got.

Some will say that Wigan had already signed him when the fixture was announced, but he was already injured when he signed, although not thought to be as bad as it turned out.

Ha I forgot about Sam tomkins

and I wasn't sure about williams- the other 3 aren't starting players but would probably be on your bench
We have got more out than that but I take your point, you and Brisbane are about matched in terms of full strength
still think Saints should win though, given all the problems the Roosters have, I think their halves have about 5 starts between them

Edit: just so you know our injured are: Mcguire, Ward, JJB, Ablett, Briscoe, Falloon, Mullally, Golding- some may be rushed back
theres only Golding that wouldn't be in our first 17 and Sutcliffe is clearly playing injured aswell

In the five games v Leeds last year at least two of those were in the starting X111 in four of the games. In the other game at Leeds Crosby was out injured.