thankyou fatbelly, agree strongly...

He shouldnt be rested, he isnt a player that needs a rest. Your big forwards need a rest, Benny i could see sense in resting, but your current star player, no way. No logic whatsoever, why risk breaking up his form????? He doesnt look tired, if anything give him MAYBE an extra 10 mins on the bench, but his name HAS to be on that teamsheet.

the reason to rest him would be to avoid injuiry or niggle.
i noticed he was struggling with a niggle on sunday.
rest monas and harrison (needs a rest ammence all season).

We won't rest anyone this week, least of all Monaghan. Rumour has it that Micky Higham has a broken thumb, which will mean that either V. Anderson will cover Monas or Jon Clarke will return one week ahead of schedule.

rest monas start clarke as he would be useless of the bench (not an impact hooker) higham come off the bench as he is an impact hooker running at people. im just worried that clarke will come in then all we going to see is slow play off the ball. at least with higham we play quick rugby.

All this is now irrelevant due to Higham being out.

Out for 6 weeks. Bring on the Clarke baiters.

ill start clarke isn't good enough for THIS wire team.

Muppet

Why isn't he?

Pedestrian and hugely predictable play the balls. Lack of general creation, and surpassed by both other 9's in the support department. Boosts his tackle stats by 3rd man in flop. But that's my view, I like the Wire team best with Monas and Higham.

I prefer Monas and Higham as the prefered 9s. But I don't get all this Clarke bashing. He's very predictable yeah but is a good tidy hooker who does his job sufficently. He is also versatille and has been a very good servant to the club. The lad also takes credit from me for coming back and coming back from injuires.

end of the day clarke has been a great servant for warrington no arguement about that. but he just slows the play of the ball down so much and normally just gets our forwards in quite alot of trouble as he is so predictable

you don't actually watch much rugby do you?

I think at least half a dozen others should also be rested....can't remember us ever winning 5 on the trot in SL

I'd have Vinnie at hooker, clarke at loose f and play Ben H at 2nd row replacing a rested Ben W

I have to admit I'm not so sure...

I can see the point in resting him with a view to us doing the pies - but that would put enourmous pressure on us should the gamble of resting him backfire spectacularly and Cas end up beating us!!!

I'd rather lose one game than both!!

That said, this would be the best game to rest him if TS is looking to to secure four points from these two games... and it will be VERY interesting to see how we fair with Cas on the ascendancy and the pies performing consistently well...

C'MON THE WIRE!!!!!!!!!

The play offs are not far away, and players need to be managed. Warringon have been ok with injuries, and most of the first choice 17 has played a lot of games. All the forwards will need a rest at some time. The concern is that Smith doesn't think Cooper, Mitchell, Blythe etc are quite good enough. Otherwise I suspect that the big guns would be rested more.

There is never a right team to rest a player. It worked well resting Morley on sunday. Castleford @home is surely as good a game as any to rest 1 or 2.

I wouldn't rest anyone. Cas have won four on the bounce. A win will take us to 32 points and almost guarantee a place in the top four (if you look at all the fixtures to come). We can't afford to risk losing two points at this stage. A win against Cas is just as important as a win against Wigan.

We shouldn't be resting anybody, if they can't play one game a week then they aren't fit enough for being SL players.

Remember when Greg Mackey got his record of consecutive appearances spanning however many seasons, how many Regal Trophy, Lancashire Cup and Challenge Cup games were included in that, I bet he did more than one game a week at some times.

I can understand resting the England players who have played a Friday night international and so on or maybe being strategic over the Easter period but to be resting players in a league season isn't really on IMO. Yes its a tough game but one game a week through the season should be doable.

Morley obviously needed a rest. Does that mean he isn't fit enough to be a super league player?

Actually a bit of squad rotation does open up spaces to include younger players and it can help keep other players match fit by stopping them being out of the team for prolonged periods so I can see the benefit, probably the players who are being rested aren't being rested because they are shattered but because the coach thinks the odd break through the season would do everybody good and can give someone else a shot, so I disagree with my earlier post now.

Oh my dear lord, contrition? Or have I missed a "whoosh" instance which the more advanced people pick up on?

I actually laughed when I read Sally's comment. First time I've done that for a while.

I'm confused, is it you who is remorseful for you stance on Sally ?