I'm feeling quietly confident of a good win next week, despite us not firing on all cyclinders. We have more than enough quality to get a result against a team whose bubble seems to have burst. They've had a cracking season and are much improved but have lost 6 out of the last 7 games, with their only win coming v Huddersfield and have lost their last 3 games by 26, 24 and 25 points respectively.
We'll have a good strong squad who have had plenty of rest before Sunday, hopefully including Faz and Joel. Can't wait!

Both Faz and Joel will play.

Farrell sounded 50/50 in his interview before the game last night when I watched it back. He also didn't seem too sure in his Wigan Evening Post column but fingers crossed.

If they're both fit I'd go-

Tomkins
Davies Gelling Gildart Burgess
Williams Leuluai
Sutton McIlorum Tomkins
Bateman Farrell Lockers

Clubb Tautai Isa Powell

Nuuausala much improved last night and it'd be a close call between him and Tautai to miss out but I'd just edge for TT. He himself needs to get better though. He's been nowhere near his best these last couple of months.

With mcllorum playing well and taken off for a long period I wouldn't be surprised to see Powell miss out if Farrell and Tomkins are fit
Tomkins
Davies
Gildart
Gelling
Burgess
Williams
Luluai
Nuasala
Mcllorum
Sutton
Farrel
Bateman
O'Loughlin
Isa Tomkins Club Tautai

I can't see Wane dropping Powell. He likes that he offers something different to MM when he comes on (whatever that is, I don't see it), plus TL had his ankle strapped and left the field before the end of the game so we might need the backup.

The most interesting one is if Joel plays and if so who he replaces. Isa had a great game last night and the only prop you'd drop (other than Wells) is FPN but there's no way Wane will drop him either.

Joel on the bench to replace Lockers.

Your probably playing us at the right time. We're riddled with injuries losing lui and possibly bmm who got put on report its a tough task to beat you boys, although no excuses. Cant see anything other than an easy wigan win

Lui is a key player for Salford and would be a big miss if he's out, as would BMM. The Wigan team that was beaten by Salford at the DW stadium earlier in the season was as folows:

21. Lewis Tierney, 36. Tom Davies, 32. Liam Forsyth, 5. Joe Burgess, 35. Liam Marshall, 39. Josh Woods, 16. Sam Powell, 8. Frank-Paul Nuuausala, 33. Josh Ganson, 19. Ryan Sutton, 20. Willie Isa, 12. Liam Farrell, 11. Joel Tomkins

Interchange: 17. Taulima Tautai, 23. Nick Gregson, 24. Joe Bretherton, 26. Romain Navarrete

To be fair the lads gave a decent account t of themselves against Salford when they were in good form. However, next week's Wigan side won't look anything like that and it'll be interesting to see how Salford go against a far stronger Wigan. I'm not saying it'll be easy but I do fancy Wigan.

Wigan are 2/5 with the bookies so fairly heavy favourites. I fancy Wigan to win but that is more down to Salfords form rather than ours.Results wise we have picked up since the injured lads have returned but performance wise we still ain't firing.

We're not playing well enough for anything to be easy. If Lui is out there's more then enough quality in Carney and Dobson to take it to Wigan. Murdoch Masila would be a big blow but unless it's pretty serious the panel have a history of going easy before big games. What did he do?

Dobbo and carney have been awful as a pairing, bmm was put on report for 2 successive high challenges

It's incredible how far Carney's star has waned when you think about it; from Origin half-back to 'barely Superleague standard' in just a few years. A waste of a real talent.

Fair enough but they'd still make me worry. Dobson seems to play well against us and Carney you know has the quality to win a game when his heads in it.

Fingers crossed BMM is available. He's been great to watch this year and the game deserves the best players to be available.

Agree with all of this. It's not often we get 2 sides with their best players available going at it hammer and tongue. Hopefully both sides will have a strong squad available and give us a great game of rugby league.

After how the Salford players celebrated at the DW I hope we put them to the sword and embarrass them this weekend.

Whether we've got the form to do that is another matter.

What's wrong with Lui? I think he's been excellent this season.

Interesting! Another player told me that Faz could have played on Friday.

That sounds more promising then. Hopefully Farrell is just keeping people guessing. There's no player in our squad that I'd rather have on the team sheet in a big game then Farrell.

Lockers!!

Agreed, he is seriously underrated. Next captain for me.

BMM hasn't been charged so is free to play.

This has little to no credibility as it literally comes from the 'bloke down the pub' but apparently Wigan have sold just 2,500 tickets for the semi-final. Such apathy wouldnt surprise me but does anyone have any info on sales (Wigan and overall) from a more reliable source?

Wigan sold their initial allocation and asked for more from the RFL. Not sure how many the initial allocation was though?

I've not heard anything but it seems off. I don't know what the initial allocation was but I'd have thought it was more then 2,500 and we've since got more. We were allocated half the main stand, all the seating behind the posts and the full touchline terrace and whilst we didn't get all the terracing tickets in one go we have since been given 500 extra.

Salford seemed to have stopped crowing that they're outselling us as well and they've sold about 5,000 I believe.

Wouldn't surprise me at all to see only 3,000 Wigan fans there.