Evans doesn't need a wake up call, he is just rubbish.

So if you think he's Rubbish then why are you arguing about me thinking we should drop him for Blythe who you also claim is 'awful'? If they are both rubbish/awful then what does it matter who is picked?

I'd be very surprised if it wasn't

Gidley

Russell (Johnson if unfit)
Evans
Atkins
Lineham

Brown
Patton

Cooper
Clark
Sims
Hughes
Savelio
Westerman

Dwyer
Philbin
Westwood
Livett

if Ratchford was back I would probably look to give him a run in the centre ahead of Evans, but the squad just simply isn't healthy enough / big enough to make wholesale changes at this stage. Evans, for all his faults, is better than Blythe.

Hopefully that right edge defence has been doing plenty of work this week, Am I right in thinking Hughes is playing on the left currently? Is iot worth him moving over to the right?

Seriously? Missing more Strike power than :-

Sam Tomkins - Manfredi - Gildart - Tierney - Burgess - Bateman (Plus Sutton & McCollorum Which I don't class as Strike power but Experience etc.)

I agree to an extent about the centres needing a kick up the botty (well the whole back line really). However, you wouldn't have an inexperienced, or non match fit player against Gelling would you? So for me, Atkins has to stay in the starting line up. Also IMO, Livett has shown he can more than hold his own. Id swap him for Evans.

Looking at Wigans squad, this is a great opportunity to get our season back on track......by god we need to.

At least we will have the benefit of Russell's scoots from dummy half this week. He is surprisingly effective at breaking the defensive line.

Because Atkins is comfortably better than both whether in bad form or not... and livett is young, with potential, he would benefit from the experience, and cannot be any worse than Evans.

Whats the point in playing Blythe who is 28 years old and awful? He isn't going to suddenly improve.

Our backline worries me, on the defensive side, but I think we have the advantage in the pack and the halves. I'm getting the feeling of a high scoring close one.

Anything but a comfortable home win for Wire I will
consider as a moral victory for Wigan under the circumstance they are presently in.

A close win spells little or no improvement from the diabolical I've seen over the last 3 SL games.

We've lost 3 games by 10 pts or less, not pleasing, but far from diabolical.

Perhaps Shiny but even you will find Friday morning difficult to defend us if we don't rack up a win and some.

Swap Wells for Bretherton or Navarette. Can't see Wells being thrown in without having a pre season and only one u19s game under his belt compared to the other two.

conceding 70+ points.

Played One game and he's branded as awful and won't get better. Behave.

We've stuck with the Russell, Atkins and Evans project long enough. time to clear the deadwood and give someone else a good go. if they proved to be equally as bad then we're only in the same position as were would be been in anyway.

This is very true. However it is also true that we let Blythe go once as he wasn't deemed good enough for us. I don't know if he improved with his stint in the lower divisions. I know the Bradford lot on here commented that he had not.

Whilst I might agree that it's not an inspirational signing as the consensus is that we are 'short' at centre I think that Blythe is a better proposition than Wheeler and he can cover at BR It isn't as though we've pawned the family jewels to bring him home from Bradford, building our team around him or expecting miracles every week?

No we have not spent a lot. We have just blown a season by going into it without sufficient strike power in the centres.

Matty Blythe may not be the best forward or centre in the team but i am sure he will be a much better prospect than Roy Asotasi & a damn sight cheaper & spend more time on the pitch.

Yes Roy was not a good signing. Its a growing list now.

The way I see it..

Wigan and Wire both have injuries
Wigan have won all their games and confidence is high..
Wire have won none and confidence is low..

Wigan are favourites for this game.

Oh and if we do happen to be winning at any stage, Eddie Hemmings will let us all know it's because of Wigans injury crisis..

I think that's something that we can agree upon, we could do with a top class centre and Matty Blythe's signing wasn't meant to satisfy that role

Are there any South Stand tickets available for tonight or is it pay on the gate?

The website is next to useless.

As of yesterday....Wigan were not fav. They were 6/4.

Checked this morning and the handicap is Wigan + 4.

I think the option to book online is withdrawn on the day of the match - so you will not find it. From what I saw of the bookings for seating in the N and E I would think that you should be pretty confident of getting a S ticket tonight, I don't think this is going to sell out. But you could always ring the shop and book ?