Given our injury and disciplinary situation with our front row we could be in big problems for Fridays game and I mean big. Potential we might not have one single regular Prop playing.

Big Dave , concussion and a knee injury.
Moz, eye injury.
Carvell, banned.
Woody, prolapsed disc.

As good as we have been this season we would really struggle against the Giants with these players missing.

As a best guess I would say we could Moz and Big Dave back, I say this because if Moz was fit to play Wigan with no risk of causing a further injury then if having the Op would have delayed his return past the play offs then he himself will have wanted to play on and have the Op after October.

The other player I think we will have is Big Dave, he has had concussion and I think a week will be enough for him to get over the effects.

Woody tweeted that he has a prolapsed disc and yesterday he tweeted things were coming on 'slowly but surely'.

Gaz is in the hands of the Gods, the RL have in the past gone easy on players coming up to a big game.

So my best guess for each player making Friday is.........

Moz, Good chance
Big Dave, Good chance
Woody, Very small chance (but this is the play offs and players play with injuries they wouldn't normally)
Gaz, 50 / 50

If we win we'll have a week off and club call.

If we lose we'll have an unwanted extra game in week two which would probably lead us to playing Saints in week three.

It's not up to me, but if someone like Moz or Wood was 70% ready I'd be tempted to risk them.

I've got everything crossed for Carvell escaping with a fine.

I believe that Moz'z eye surgery was timed so that he would be back for the play-offs. Gaz should learn from others that all he has to do is simply apologies and flutter his eyelashes and he will get a fine from the RFL

Did fine against Hull

A month ago, it was doom and gloom as we approached our last three matches with key players missing. We won all three convincingly.

Whilst Carvells' looked quite bad, his first impact was on the top of the ball, so that will help him, although players do have a responsibility not to end up high.

He pulled out of it straight away and apologised, it was not an ggressive tackle at the head, so hopefully a fine at worst.

Can we not call Chris Hill into the squad?

Is Ben Evans

a) Available
b) Good enough for the 1st's

Agreed
He certainly didn't swing one it was more of a lazy arm..And as you said 1st contact was on the ball.

deffo shot up, lunlike lauaki's attempt to decapitate bert in the first half

woody hasnt been training but seeing specialist today to see if he can get the nod to train so may be a possibility

I think we can see past that though because Lauaki is so awful. I hope that Wigan do sign him next year, he is so selfish at times, I can remember 3 or 4 times when they had the overlap on his side and he tried to run straight over the defence rather than pass it.

I would imagine anyone in the frist team trainiong team could be brought in. They may not be adrian mozza but they may well settle the ship and fill in when we are really needing the man. Also, they may be as good as gob or r. Evans have been this year. I would probably bring chris hill in place of woody or gaz!

would that not be a bit of a slap to likes of evans who's been in the squad all year.

As good as Hilly is, i think it would be a massive risk to bring him into your squad for such a big game, plus we need him for our play offs

Good luck in the playoffs by the way, hope you go on to win it.

Possibly. The names are almost interchangable.my line of thought was that chris hill has won a cup this year and played in major final (obviously).

Evans also lloks a great prospect, as well as others in the squad (laithwaite eg)

dont think you can play chris hill if he has not played any league games for you.

could be wrong tho

Wouldn't have thought that would be a problem as he's technically a Wire player and on dual reg/ loan with Leigh at the moment so it would be the same situation as calling a player up from the academy for his debut.

It will all depend on whether any of Moz/Gaz/ Woody play, but my preference would be for an accademy player to step up rather than Hill.

Remember if we win, we get a week off

How many players from the youth set up have been given a shot and stepped up, give B.Evans his chance to shine.

carvell's was high but totally unintentional as you could tell by his reaction,the one thing that worries me with carvell's shot is he's been warned before about it i think. how do we know moz won't be fit? bill arthur said on friday after speaking to moz he should be back this weekend?

nah thats BS, matty smiffff didn't play at all for saints last year prior to sperlunking us in the play offs.

Git.

That's because he was our player, out on loan and Salford had finished their season. Isn't Chris Hill still a Leigh player until the end of this season? I thought Wire had only signed him for next season?

No, he is loaned at leigh.