He was injured.

Radford was banged up from the two easter games McRae said on radio the other day. Think Hull will risk Horne or Seymour but not both. Turner out with a dead leg.

McKinnon
Sharp
Whiting or Martin
Crooks
Briscoe
Ellis
Horne or Seymour
Lynch
Houghton
Moa
Manu
Tickle
Pitts
Subs
Radders
Bowden
Green or Kent
Nicklas

I would imagine it'll be something along the lines of:

McKinnon
Sharp
Turner
Crooks
Briscoe
Ellis
Seymour
Lynch
Houghton
Radford
Manu
Tickle
Pitts

Bowden
Green
Kent
Whiting

Nicklas and Horne to make up the 19.

If Turner is out then I would move Whiting to centre and have Nicklas on the bench (I wouldn't risk playing Horne if he isn't 100% fit. We all know the injury issues he's had over the previous few seasons and I wouldn't want to make anything worse).

You missed out Moa and it looks like Crooks for Turner so Tony Martin is playing.

Be big if we can get two of Seymour, Horne and Whiting playing.

Smales has said Turner won't play but Martin probably will 50/50. Crooks to start.

Radford in

What about Aspinwall?

Was out for three weeks wasn't he?

Oh FFS, must have missed that one.

Radders is a good addition. More experience in the pack.

I know PG has stated he wants to avoid playing players out of position but if our 3 centres are out, why not consider putting Manu out there! We could still have a decent back row in Tickle, Pitts and hopefully Whiting.

Don't want to revert to Agar's old ways but with no game for another fortnight, we'd be crazy to risk Turner or Martin when niether of them are going to be more than 50% fit at best. By the time the next match comes around they could be raring to go and 99% fit.

Manu has the experience, speed and strength to maybe cause a bit of havoc out wide against a strong Leeds side. We could maybe start with him at centre, move himback into the back row after 50 mins and then bring Crookes on from the bench to use his raw pace against a tiring defence.
Dunno, just a thought !

If Whitings fit I think he is more of a favourite to play centre than Manu.

If needs must, perhaps we could go with Whiting and Manu as our starting centres with Crooks on the bench.
Just makes us look a bit more solid !

Still got a decent forward line in: Lynch, Houghton, Moa, Radford, Tickle, Pitts, Bowden, Green, Kent.

I'm all for blooding the kids but is starting Crooks against an in-form Wigan side which includes the bloody impressive Tomkins in their backline maybe a gamble too far? I worry that they might cut us to shreds on the edges as I think we can more than match them down the middle.

Hang on, maybe got a better idea.

Who needs centres anyway. Lets just ask the groundkeeper to get his paint machine out of the shed and bring the touchlines in a bit. If the pitch is 20ft narrower, that should just about do it!

Seriously though, does anyone know the RL rules on pitch widths. Always thought that ours was on the narrow side compared to other grounds but perhaps thats just because our wingers never seem to have any room to go around their marker and make a clean break.

as was said before it may be better to cop a beating in this game, and have horne, seymour, turner, aspinwall, martin, o meley, whiting back for the leeds game and westerman well on the way too, will make us a damn sight stronger

Good idea rich.

Crooks is playing left centre.

I was thinking the same..

Wigan -10 for this game..........We'll be lucky to stay within 40 points

be closer than you think

I was all over this on wed when it was priced up got Wigan -8! Business is business

Yes. There are minimum widths and the pitch dimensions are registered with the RFL at the beginning of the season. If the pitch size is changed, it has to be registered with the RFL prior to the change, unless an on the day remarking is ordered by the officials because of problems with the pitch.

The RFL website has details under operational rules.

All teams measurements are on there too

One way to stop Tomkins hit him hard in the tackle .Then when he start kicking off pat him on the head
and tell him to stop being a silly boy ".Get that shoulder in on the tackle"