Warrington Squad

Sitaleki Akauola, Matty Ashton, Blake Austin, Luther Burrell, Josh Charnley, Daryl Clark, Jason Clark, Mike Cooper, Ben Currie, Matt Davis, Anthony Gelling, Luis Johnson, Toby King, Tom Lineham, Jake Mamo, Ben Murdoch-Masila, Declan Patton, Joe Philbin, Stefan Ratchford, Ellis Robson, Danny Walker

Ashton
Lineham
Gelling
King
Charnley
Austin
Ratchford
Philbin
Clark
Cooper
Currie
Masila
Clark

Akauola
Davis
Robson or Johnson
Walker

Worry our bench will be too light

And that is why most the off season chat was about bringing in another prop. Not saying he would of played but I thought Latu may have been added to the 21.

I don't really understand why Latu hasn't been included either. Even if he was simply told to run with the ball, tackle anything that moves, but no offloads it would have bolstered the go-forward. I am sure (assuming he is picked) that Robson will benefit from a SL game so he can 'see what he needs to do' to make the step up, but why pick him so early in the season and against tough opponents ? Why not against eg Toronto ?

Confused.

I think simply not fit enough, he would be exposed by that Saints pack.

Burrell rather than Robson or Johnson, I suspect.

Tough call on the bench spot. I haven’t seen Johnson play so can’t really call it.

Not inspired by that at all.

If we're still in the game at the 60 minute mark, Walmsley and Thompson will come back on and flatten us.

Even a 20 minute stint from Latu would have helped.

Bench of Akauola, Burrell , Walker and either Johnson or Robson. My money is on Johnson.

I was expecting Latu to play but there are probably concerns about his defence at this stage having had so little time to train with the team and also a shortage of fitness. He may even have had some sort of niggle or reaction following last weekend's Reserve fixture.

I think we'll see Latu against Toronto, he'll have had 3 weeks training with us
and 2 reserve games by then so he shouldn't be far off from where he needs to be

I wonder if Davis will get the nod over Walker on the basis of defence?

He'll get the nod on the basis of a weaker pack bench between the 2.

Ashton

Charnley
Gelling
King
Lineham

Austin
Ratchford

Philbin
D. Clark
Cooper
Currie
Murdoch-Masila
J. Clark

Davis
Akauola
Burrell
Johnson/Robson


Danny Walker to miss out. Need some size out on the pitch in the middle and Davis can do a good job at DH if needed.

Saints were putting all their emphasis on going down the middle Vs Salford. They were defending extremely tight, their wingers defending on the 20m cross for the vast majority. If we're going to beat Saints we'll have to move them around the park and get them on the edges. This is the sort of game where we need to let the ball do the work for us.

Well that's us snookered then

I can't see us winning this one, then again we very rarely beat saints at home. If we can keep 13 on the pitch we have a chance. We should keep our indiscipline to eye gouging, there is no punishment for that.

I'd say it's a 50:50. We're without Coote, Makinson and Roby. You're missing Widdop and Hill.

I'd say we're a better side, but we're missing an extra player and you're at home so that balances things well.

There's going to be 3,000 from St Helens there, presume the game will be close to selling out which would be good for a Thursday game.

Pretty sure it will not sell out; its on Thursday and available to watch on TV I believe. Perhaps 14k ?

Saints are at peak minus long term injured. They've had to peak for the world club challenge....we rarely if ever beaten a team in it, ahead of the game from memory.

So history tells us a Saints win....if Wire win Thurs...Wire will win every piece of silverware on offer.

What does history tell us about the track record of duckie's predictions?

Pretty good last season.

You were missing Coote and Roby at Wembley, so you could be correct.

Sad getting a weak excuse in early.

It's not an excuse, we're perfectly capable of beating Warrington with 6 or 7 missing if we play well. You're also capable of beating us if we were full strength if we don't.

I'm hopeful of a win, but wouldn't be a massive surprise if we didn't.

Oh, Jack Hughes is playing for us tomorrow night is he?

Ah well, that`s one less interchange for us then.

Thanks for the heads up.