Full strength against Widnes. Anyone who gets a knock should be withdrawn from the Exiles game so that we are at full strength for the Wire game.

Interesting point, will his suspension count against Wigan, since he wasn't allowed to play anyway, under the terms of his loan contract?

If Bilko says we've 17 days then make full use of it and play our strongest squad against Widnes. I'd go -

S Tomkins,
Charnley, Goulding, Thornley, Richards.
Green/Powell, Smith,
Lauaki, McIlorum, Mossop,
Farrell, Hansen,
O'Loughlin.
Bench - Crosby, Flower, Tuson/Hughes, L Tomkins.

If anyone gets the slightest knock then blame it on the ipitch and withdraw them from the Exiles game.
Besides, as we all know, there are far better players in SL than ours so why pick Wigan players anyway!

We're a one man team, so only Sam would get picked anyway.

Quite right, the worlds best player, the worlds best winger, and the most feared man in SL are elsewhere, Wigan players are not needed, pull em all...

It's a risk because we all know what happened at Widnes last year but if any of our big names have niggles there really is no point risking them this week. We need to be at full strength against Wire and a couple of weeks off could be exactly what some players need after some recent lacklustre performances.

The article on the injuries thread suggests we could have Sam, Smith, Richards, Flower and McIlorum out on Friday as well as Green and O'Loughlin.

Could we see something like:
Murphy/Tierney/Hampshire
Charnley
Goulding
Thornley
Burgess/Gelling
Powell
Williams
Crosby
L Tomkins
Mossop
Hansen
Farrell
Burke

Hughes
Lauaki
Spencer
Tuson

As it stand we're unlikely to drop out of the top 2 unless there is a complete capitulation. This selection is no disrepect to Widnes but we have a really tough run in to the end of the season after the Exiles break and we need all our big guns ready.