Might be off as crisis meeting regarding England game. They might postpone matches for this to go ahead. For me if it can’t be helped then it should be. However if you can play despite this game you should do.

We carried on playing last season through the crisis with so many disruptions and players missing, what's new this season? Carry on should be the message.

Brad Singleton (Wigan) – Grade C Headbutt – 2 Match Penalty Notice

One less to worry about. I’m still not sure which way this game will go

Westerman & Lyne both made the 19-man squad.

The squad is: John Bateman (Wigan Warriors); Daryl Clark, Mike Cooper, Ben Currie (all Warrington Wolves); Tom Davies (Catalans Dragons); Liam Farrell (Wigan Warriors); Luke Gale, Ash Handley (both Leeds Rhinos); Morgan Knowles (St Helens); Reece Lyne (Wakefield Trinity); Jonny Lomax (St Helens); Paul McShane (Castleford Tigers); Tommy Makinson (St Helens); Mikolaj Oledzki (Leeds Rhinos); Joe Philbin, Stefan Ratchford (both Warrington Wolves); Sam Tomkins (Catalans Dragons); Alex Walmsley (St Helens); Joe Westerman (Wakefield Trinity).

What does that say about us if we can’t beat Wigan with all the players they will have missing. Hull KR did them last week, NO EXCUSE for us this week.

But we have key players missing too in westerman and lynne..and maybe Tanginoa

Walker to LF, Crowther/Eaves (if he’s still here) to rotate with Wood, Batch to replace Kelepi and Senior in for Lyne.

Why does Kelepi need replacing?

If he gets selected for the Allstars team !!

Looking on the Wigan board, they are not too confident of their chances on Thursday. One is even predicting another 62-0 thrashing

Ah, right.

Fifita May get picked yet. Made team of the week. Thought did well but his stats pretty impressive

Yes but there was no religation last season,

Get the game played. Wakey will be missing a few and so will Wigan due to international call ups. I’d hazard wakey will be missing Fifita and Tanginoa for the all stars. That’s a lot of firepower to add to Wood, Walker, Hampshire, Tupou, Croft out injured. That’s atleast 9.

Wigan are missing 2 extra through disciplinary in Hardaker and Singleton.

No way we should be postponing this. Get it played! It’s very much a 50/50 game this.

I guess that’s all mind games.

Oh but there was remember Toronto? Had they not folded a team would have gone down accepting that it was unlikely though as the Championship never got going. But relegation was on at the start of last season.

Wakefield could potentially have more than Wigan unavailable through injury, loans or selection.

Injured players

Wood
Hampshire
Tupou
Croft
Eseh
Walker

Out on long term loan

Greensmith
Bailey

Selection/possible selections

Westerman
Lyne
Tanginoa???
Fifita???

And wigan are moaning they are struggling to field a team? One thing I do like about the current regime at trinity is they often don’t moan about situations like this and just get on with it. How many times have we stood up and played with 10+ missing this past 12 months.

So when do we find out if Fifita and Tanginoa have been selected for the Allstars ??

Knowing how poor communication is from anything in the RL management, probably not until our own squad is released FIL.....



EDIT 12noon - Just released....


Big Dave in, Kelepi out.
Joe Westy is in but obviously he wont be playing....


Rocky in, as well as Jordy and Yusef.
Rest looks same as from Cas game apart obviously from Bill....

Wigan missing Hardaker and Hastings, along with Farrell and Bateman.

Can only see 5 players that would get into our starting 17 . The thing that will win Wigan the match (if played) will be down to the Coaching ,The 2 new coaches have made ,a difference in defence, but the attack is still work in progress, Wigan play to a well structured plan ,so think they will still be too strong for us

Westerman - Not as obvious as you might think



If fit I would give Hampshire a go this week.

We are missing a few bodies but Wigan look to have struggled to throw a team together so we should be targeting this game as a win.

Give Hampshire a go in which position?

Wigan named an 18 man squad with one of them being Manfredi who's doubtful, I reckon Chester should be able to work out who he's going up against