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Head Coach Adrian Lam names 19-man squad to face St Helens
One change from last week as Escare is replaced by Shorrocks
St Helens vs Wigan Warriors, Friday 12th July, Totally Wicked Stadium, K.O. 7:45pm
Head Coach Adrian Lam has named the Wigan Warriors 19-man squad to face St Helens on Friday in the Betfred Super League (K.O.7:45pm).
The reigning Betfred Super League champions will make their second trip to the Totally Wicked Stadium this season, after losing there on the opening day of the 2019 season back in late January.
Injury news
Speaking earlier this week, Head Coach Adrian Lam explained that the decision to select experienced forward Tony Clubb would likely go down to the wire.
He said, We’ll get Tony Clubb to captain’s run and see how he is. He struggled at the start of the week, but he’s settled in ok. It’ll be a decision we make on Thursday.”
Clubb is included in this week’s 19-man squad.
Sean O’Loughlin (achilles) misses out for the second week in a row, while Ben Flower (back) continues his recovery and is expected to return in three to four weeks.
Dom Manfredi (knee) and Tom Davies (ankle) remain the only long-term absentees.
Wigan Warriors 19-man squad to face St Helens:
image: https://www.wiganwarriors.com/admin/res ... way-19.jpg
Joe Bullock, Joe Burgess, Liam Byrne, Tony Clubb, Liam Farrell, Oliver Gildart, Chris Hankinson, Zak Hardaker, Willie Isa, Tommy Leuluai, Liam Marshall, Romain Navarrete, Ollie Partington, Sam Powell, Jarrod Sammut, Dan Sarginson, Jake Shorrocks, Morgan Smithies, George Williams.
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Head Coach Adrian Lam names 19-man squad to face St Helens
One change from last week as Escare is replaced by Shorrocks
St Helens vs Wigan Warriors, Friday 12th July, Totally Wicked Stadium, K.O. 7:45pm
Head Coach Adrian Lam has named the Wigan Warriors 19-man squad to face St Helens on Friday in the Betfred Super League (K.O.7:45pm).
The reigning Betfred Super League champions will make their second trip to the Totally Wicked Stadium this season, after losing there on the opening day of the 2019 season back in late January.
Injury news
Speaking earlier this week, Head Coach Adrian Lam explained that the decision to select experienced forward Tony Clubb would likely go down to the wire.
He said, We’ll get Tony Clubb to captain’s run and see how he is. He struggled at the start of the week, but he’s settled in ok. It’ll be a decision we make on Thursday.”
Clubb is included in this week’s 19-man squad.
Sean O’Loughlin (achilles) misses out for the second week in a row, while Ben Flower (back) continues his recovery and is expected to return in three to four weeks.
Dom Manfredi (knee) and Tom Davies (ankle) remain the only long-term absentees.
Wigan Warriors 19-man squad to face St Helens:
image: https://www.wiganwarriors.com/admin/res ... way-19.jpg
Joe Bullock, Joe Burgess, Liam Byrne, Tony Clubb, Liam Farrell, Oliver Gildart, Chris Hankinson, Zak Hardaker, Willie Isa, Tommy Leuluai, Liam Marshall, Romain Navarrete, Ollie Partington, Sam Powell, Jarrod Sammut, Dan Sarginson, Jake Shorrocks, Morgan Smithies, George Williams.
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Hopefully Clubb will be fine, even if it’s just to take a place on the bench. To cope with Saints front row I think we’ll need as many middle options as possible, so I’d take out Hankinson and bring in Wells or Byrne.
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Doesn't look like Clubb will play from Lam's interview.
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| Quote ="NickyKiss"Hopefully Clubb will be fine, even if it’s just to take a place on the bench. To cope with Saints front row I think we’ll need as many middle options as possible, so I’d take out Hankinson and bring in Wells or Byrne.
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Marshall Sarginson Gildart Burgess
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| Quote ="FearTheVee"Quote ="NickyKiss"Hopefully Clubb will be fine, even if it’s just to take a place on the bench. To cope with Saints front row I think we’ll need as many middle options as possible, so I’d take out Hankinson and bring in Wells or Byrne.
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Suddenly very confident looking at that pack and bench. Should be a pretty bg mismatch up front.'"
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I also think we are really light in the pack and saints will cause us problems in that area particularly.
Nonetheless, we have turned them over a few times in the past, when we didn't look like we would get anything from the game.
This game will show us how much we have progressed from the start of the season ?
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| Quote ="FearTheVee"Suddenly very confident looking at that pack and bench. Should be a pretty bg mismatch up front.'"
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At full strength our back row is better then yours and lessens the gap in the front row but shy of Lockers and Greenwood on top of Flower and probably Clubb makes the task too big. The two young boys (Partington and Smithies) have been immense these past few weeks but this will be a different level. |
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Only way we will win this game is if we offload like crazy and throw the ball around, tire their pack out otherwise they’ll trample us.
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| Quote ="NickyKiss"100%
At full strength our back row is better then yours and lessens the gap in the front row but shy of Lockers and Greenwood on top of Flower and probably Clubb makes the task too big. The two young boys (Partington and Smithies) have been immense these past few weeks but this will be a different level.'"
Back row I agree, although I rate Zeb higher than Greenwood and Knowles is massively underrated.
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| Quote ="FearTheVee"Back row I agree, although I rate Zeb higher than Greenwood and Knowles is massively underrated.
Farrell and SOL are clearly all class though.'"
I’d go the other way. Knowles causes me far greater concern than Zeb ever has. Cracking player Knowles. |
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| Quote ="FearTheVee"Back row I agree, although I rate Zeb higher than Greenwood and Knowles is massively underrated.
Farrell and SOL are clearly all class though.'"
Knowles is a good player no doubt. I feel he’ll be a bit of a Lockers and not get the credit he deserves from people who don’t watch him week in week out until he’s later in to his career. I certainly wouldn’t swap a full fit Greenwood for Taia but he’s rarely stayed clear of knocks this season. |
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Sky choosing to air the Leeds/KR game over us ffs.
Guess I’ll have to settle for one angled, no commentary highlights 2 hours after.
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You get to watch this great game tonight though. Thrilling stuff.
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| Quote ="FearTheVee"You get to watch this great game tonight though. Thrilling stuff.'"
You're right - playing the game tonight was the mystery for me. Could understand wanting to screen Leeds v Hull KR, although with hindsight its looking like London might fall away badly. |
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Was hoping for a dry day to give us more chance of trying to bring our backs into the game more hopefully come game time we will see drier conditions.
I'm going tonight expecting a whooping so anything better than that will be great fully received. I'm expecting that Clubb will not play but hope that Byrne will bring a more physical game.
My main worry is that Saints score quite a few barge over tries a la Cas earlier in the season.
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Pretty stupid to risk Clubb, we're light enough in the forwards as it is.
If he breaks down in his first stint and we're left with sixteen men for 75 mins then it could turn into a very long night.
Play someone who's fit.
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| Quote ="apollosghost"Pretty stupid to risk Clubb, we're light enough in the forwards as it is.
If he breaks down in his first stint and we're left with sixteen men for 75 mins then it could turn into a very long night.
Play someone who's fit.'"
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| Quote ="Egg Chasing"Agree. We have Wakey next week at home and then a week off. Let the likes of Clubb get themselves fit ready for a big 6 or 7 weeks towards the playoffs.'"
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| Quote ="tedglen"Aye, and when Greenwood comes back lets hope that he has the sense to start wearing some head protection'"
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Been out for a couple of weeks at a time three times tis season.
Makes me worry about a player when that happens.
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Well that’s us back down to Earth with a bump - a result and performance I feared.
Did more to back my opinion that Lam isn’t the one for Wigan than to back up the clubs decision to hand him a new deal. We were negative, dull and predictable with the only spark being Hardakers try which was excellent.
I can’t quite believe the gulf in class and the drop we’ve had from last season to this.
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| Quote ="100% Warrior"Well that’s us back down to Earth with a bump - a result and performance I feared.
Did more to back my opinion that Lam isn’t the one for Wigan than to back up the clubs decision to hand him a new deal. We were negative, dull and predictable with the only spark being Hardakers try which was excellent.
I can’t quite believe the gulf in class and the drop we’ve had from last season to this.'"
Utter rubbish. Is it Lam’s fault we lost Hamlin, Tautai, Flower, Clubb, Greenwood and Lockers from the squad at the start of the season? No it isn’t. What about Davies and Manfredi? No it isn’t.
Saints are clearly the best side in the competition and beat us fair and square but it has to be taken in context. None of that is down to Lam.
It was always going to be a transitional season and we’ll definitely be in the play offs. When we are, nobody will want to play us. Partington and Smithies are great prospects but tonight was reminiscent of Cas away. Young lads beaten by top forwards. That wouldn’t happen if Flower, Clubb and Lockers has played.
We might not have won tonight but our forwards would have given us a bit more resilience. Young lads can’t win the big games on their own and need the support of experienced players around them.
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| Quote ="Bigredwarrior"Utter rubbish. Is it Lam’s fault we lost Hamlin, Tautai, Flower, Clubb, Greenwood and Lockers from the squad at the start of the season? No it isn’t. What about Davies and Manfredi? No it isn’t.
Saints are clearly the best side in the competition and beat us fair and square but it has to be taken in context. None of that is down to Lam.
It was always going to be a transitional season and we’ll definitely be in the play offs. When we are, nobody will want to play us. Partington and Smithies are great prospects but tonight was reminiscent of Cas away. Young lads beaten by top forwards. That wouldn’t happen if Flower, Clubb and Lockers has played.
We might not have won tonight but our forwards would have given us a bit more resilience. Young lads can’t win the big games on their own and need the support of experienced players around them.
We’ll beat Wakey next week and go on another run.'"
Give over.
Stop excusing a poor performance, a far cry from last weeks words when you’d have thought we were world beaters. Our attack collapsed, defence poor, predictable and negative. That you can lay at Lam’s door; as per it was prior to our run, which as good as it was let’s be fair and say we beat teams we should be beating anyway.
I’ll have we were weak in our forwards, no one can say we weren’t but that still does not excuse the performance given. Talk about a “Good Friday” debacle, it’s a “Bad Friday” debacle tonight.
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It was always going to be a bridge too far tonight minus 4 props from the start of the season plus Lockers and Greenwood. I wouldn’t start pointing fingers at Lam but I would question the teams decisions tonight. I thought going for the two points at 0-0 and then 6-2 was just throwing much needed field position away and giving their front row and their defensive line speed an easy way of keeping us pinned in our half. We’d troubled them in the first 5-10 mins as well but then had to do too much defending.
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| Quote ="NickyKiss"It was always going to be a bridge too far tonight minus 4 props from the start of the season plus Lockers and Greenwood. I wouldn’t start pointing fingers at Lam but I would question the teams decisions tonight. I thought going for the two points at 0-0 and then 6-2 was just throwing much needed field position away and giving their front row and their defensive line speed an easy way of keeping us pinned in our half. We’d troubled them in the first 5-10 mins as well but then had to do too much defending.'"
Totally agree. Our pack was steamrollered again and when that happens we have no decient field position and no ball because we give penalties away to try and slow them down. It’s a stark reality that we’re desperate for reinforcements up front. |
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