I can see this game being the biggest for the club in a long time, a win here - we've made it, and we are title contenders. I'm not saying we win and we're dead on, but we win and we've got the extra oomph to win these games come September.

bigger than the saints and wire play off games??
no chance its a regular round of super league with early league positions up for grabs.
however it will still be a massive result should we win it.

Im agreeing with that, a massive psychological boost for us if we win at this early stage of the season, that would be wire and wigan beaten, could be huge for us come september/october

Now if we can just get the Leeds monkey of our back

this game has all the makings of being a cracker!

for me the two best coached teams in super league with the best defences too

will be another good turnout over 8000 i reckon. (8800 and 9400 last two home games)

i hope brown and cudjoe arent injured for this one



they will have joel tomkins missing after the red card yesterday.

roll on friday

will then be demoted to 2nd grade for the rest of the season.

Hope so!!! It was Ganson!!



He should have sin binned Yeaman and Joel after the punch up failed to then we stupidly let Joel have the ball!! Cant see him getting less than 4 games but to be fair he as been poor this season so may not miss him as much as he hasnt been key for us like in past seasons.

Looking forward to friday should be a good game! You should be favourites on form. We need to keep Deacon on the pitch longer than 5 mins!

From the sounds of it some other players could end up getting called up before the beak as well.

I would be suprised if anyone else is banned for getting involved! Manu and Elephant man may get a warning or a game for other incidents and maybe Joel and Yeaman get a game for fighting!

Fancy a Hudds victory in this 1, be interesting see how the bookies see it but we look likely to be missing Fielden Gleeson Richards Roberts Finch and Deacon was knocked out again yesterday and had stitches im led to believe so he could be missing and not to mention if the Tomkins 2 get cited. I think Joel will and maybe Sam for running in and throwing punches.

think bookies will score it an even match or give giants a 2 point start.

Joel Tomkins has been charged with the Grade B offence of recklessly striking an opponent in the 66th minute, an incident which led to his dismissal. Sam Tomkins has been charged with the Grade B offence of running in and punching in the 65th minute.

2 from hull as well in same game

Yeaman was also charged with the Grade B offence of fighting in the 66th minute whilst Radford is charged with the Grade B offence of making dangerous contact with Thomas Leuluai in the 61st minute.

Sounds similar to Keith Mason a few years back at Wigan but will golden balls get the same punishment?

ATEOTD it's 2 points win or lose, yes if we win we get a psychological advantage for the season, but so do Wigan if they win.

Really looking forward to it, only 4 days to go and counting

We could possibly have sam tomkins, joel tomkins, finch, richards, fielden, deacon, gleeson all out for different reasons but no excuses will be given by wigan! We will come with a game plan to win and what ever team we put out I will be confident however we will need to improve 10 fold on our performance from yesterday. We got sucked into a niggle a thon with hull as we did against you lot at the dw last year. We need to avoid this at all costs.

Cannot wait for this one, it should be an absolute belter and hopefully a good atmosphere in the ground too as Wigan wont be as quiet as Hull or Bradford fans have been .

This will show us how far off becoming the best team we are !!

When's he back ...

Possibly Friday by the sounds of it if selected.

He's just come back with the 1st team and 'technically' available - but I wouldn't expected him risked against Wigan as it's a big game and he won't be match fit without any preseason.

He's available for selection this week I believe, but will probably be a couple of weeks in the U20's.

Well of course, the only way Wigan ever lose is by bring dragged down to a lower level isn't it. I mean God forbids the possibility that you actually get outplayed on the day. Sheesh.

You are Phil Clarke and I claim my fivespot.

We'll get beat, as the rugby gods have said so

If he's Phil Clarke I'm banking that fivespot on you being Barrie McDermott

just trying to work out were it said dragged down to a lower level , I sure the poster put "Niggle" as in scruffy game

If you can't work it out that's not my problem. Re-read it until you do, it's quite obvious.

My guess, not necessarily what I'd choose!

Grix
McGillvary
Cudjoe
Simpson
Hodgson
Brown
Brough
Mason
Lunt
Crabtree
Fa'alogo
O, Donnell
Gilmour

Faiumu
Robinson
Griffin
Patrick

Although Graham Horne seems to be a favourite at the moment.