I can't see him leaving Bibby out against his former club (even though he did with Clark against Cas). I agree Hank should be in after Bibby's performance on Sunday. The number of times he shot out of the line in defence leaving Marshall exposed was ridiculous. Once, maybe, but learn from your mistakes after that. To keep repeating the same error is not good enough. What is it they say about the definition of madness?

Away from home we shall have to watch the disciplinary aspect as we will probably end up the wrong side of the pen count. We have Child in charge so will have to be careful.

Hopefully Lam will give Smith a start and his kicking game can put us well into Salford's half when they start their sets.
Keep them in their half and under pressure which hopefully can allow us to get ahead and stay there.

Common sense prevails !

Are the Salford supporters on the terracing being moved to the large main stand?

Farrell and Hardaker likely to miss out tomorrow. Hope they’re both ok for next week if they don’t play.

Both 50/50 according to Lam. I think we can cope without Hardaker but Farrell would be a loss, with a lack of recognised cover.

If they both miss out we’re probably looking at something along the lines of-

French
Manfredi Hankinson Bibby Marshall
Leuluai Hastings
Bullock Powell Byrne
Isa Smithies Havard

G Burgess Clark McDonnell Smith

Burgess centre, Hank in 2nd row?

I know you mean it in terms of having cover but I think we'd very much miss Hardaker. He brings an enthusiasm to the team that is hard to replicate and certainly isn't found in either Hank or Bibby. He's turned out to be a terrific team player which wasn't something I was particularly expecting from him when he signed. Great defensively and does a lot of work coming out if our own half too. Fast becoming integral to this Wigan team

I just mean from a natural cover perspective in saying the Farrell absence would be more concerning. Fully agree with what you’re saying on Hardaker. In fairness to Faz though, we wouldn’t just miss him because of a lack of cover. He’s been on fire at the start of this season and is probably the best second rower in the league.

Yes yes yes! Fully agree!

Farrell plays, Hardaker doesn’t.

I’m happy with that team to be honest. We should be coming away with a win IMO though I do expect it’ll be a tough game

Tackle on Smithies at the end of the very first set... McCarthy (I think) with a shoulder to the side of the knee.

And one on Faz also. I'm awaiting the meltdown from the RL world

So so negative going for those penalties imo.
Glad to be winning but not played that well yet

The one on half time was stupid. 5 tackles to score a try, if you can’t then go for a drop goal.

Thought the exact same

Imagine being a neutral sports fan with bugger all to watch tonight, turning this penalty-athon on

We never seem to get the balance right in running and taking the 2 and it costs us at times.

Yesterday was worse.

Really? It must’ve been poor?
I’ve long since stopped bothering with RL games which don’t involved Wigan.
Just zero interest for the drab entertainment on offer 90% of the time.

So impressed with Havard.

Wtf is Powell doing

Absolutely clueless ball in hand wtf do our players do in training

but I thought he was our star hooker??

A garbage marquee signing meaning we’ve got Havard a young kid doing big mins who is out on his feet in the defensive line. This has been a dreadful way to manage a game.