Wigan Warriors 19 Man Squad (in alphabetical order)

Greg Burke, Josh Charnley, Dom Crosby, Gil Dudson, Liam Farrell, Ben Flower, Anthony Gelling, Blake Green, Harrison Hansen, Jack Hughes, Michael McIlorum, Lee Mossop, Pat Richards, Matty Smith, Scott Taylor, Iain Thornley, Logan Tomkins, Sam Tomkins, Chris Tuson.

No Goulding or Lauaki and 5 props named again.

My Guess at the 17.

S Tomkins,
Charnley, Gelling, Thornley, Richards,
Green, Smith,
Taylor, McIlorum, Mossop,
Hansen, Farrell,
Tuson.
Bench - Crosby, Flower, Hughes and L Tomkins.
Burke and Dudson to miss out.

Goulding out with knee injury and no lockers again. Phil Wilkinson on Twitter saying both ok for next week. Here's hoping!

Hughes and Dudson to miss out. Hughes has been very poor lately I think Burke is worth another go.

i would drop mossop,very poor last week,if fact when we took taylor off after 20 min we lost our go forward.mossop should have gone and taylor should have been left on.

Hughes form has fell off a cliff. He should be left at Leigh for the year now IMO to wake him up.

He started the season in grand form as well.

Dudson for Mossop and I agree. I'd be so so tempted to rest Sam though.

With Wire winning tonight, and having to go to Saints and Catalans, 2nd is very much back on if we win on Saturday. He must play Sam as there's no cover in the backs?

???

wire lost

And there will be a great prize for finishing 2nd playing at home were out form is awful & against Leeds and Warrington who could ask for a better outcome.

Don't want to lose games but I'd rather us finish 4th now!

4th for me too

Warrington have done us no favours losing last night, we've got to lose an extra game now to 'gain' that 4th spot!

Think we'll lose them all tbh (Wembley aside of course)

Why does everybody want 4th spot what is wrong with second home game against Warrington or Leeds, we could be hitting form going into the play offs.

Winning is contagious, and helps confidence, which is what we seem to lacking at the moment.
A win at Catalans is paramount for success at Wembley, and a Win at Wembley puts us in good form mentally for the back-end.

If we win v Hudds we're at home in week 3

We won the C Cup in 2011 then went to Warrington the week after.
Look what happened there!
Success in the C Cup doesn't mean success in the play offs.

Success in the CC tends to hinder success in the play offs, just ask Leeds! They're the opposite by a wide margin!

I genuinely think this year though, that Wigan winning the CC should have zero bearing on us having a good crack at the play offs. In 2011 we stank the place out in the play offs but we had come off the back of an incredibly tough CC run and there was a lot of emotion involved with Wigan being back at Wembley.

We don't have any excuse this year IMO. We've had a favourable run to the final and our players have had plenty of rests.

We probably won't do it but the double should definitely be our aim this year! One trophy will be a success but two isn't beyond us, with a full team!

I don't understand the aim for 4th? According to popular opinion, finishing 1st is the only true measure of 'best' team...Why would you want to go to the home of the best team?

Serious question.

i agree - there is no benefit to being 1/2/3/4 with the current system.
the trick that leeds exploited in the last 2 seasons is to finish out of the top 4.
hence, the argument over where you finish in the top 4 is pretty meaningless. tbh, whoever plays, its a 1 off, as all 4 teams are capable of beating each other.
the advantage of being 5th, is avoiding the top 4 in round 1, and facing a beaten team in week 2.

There are question marks over whether Hudds can come up with the goods in knockout games against top sides, we know Leeds and Wire can. Finishing top isn't a measure of the best team, otherwise teams wouldn't reduce their chances of winning league games in order to increase their chances of winning in the play offs and the cup. Whisper it quietly but the measure of the best team is who lifts the trophy at Old Trafford that all 14 teams are going for at all costs. Leeds were the best team last year not us, and people really need to get over that fact, it's embarrassing

With the result last night and this evening, may as well aim for 2nd. I would rather play Wire at home than away.

I actually disagree, the mood and atmosphere around the DW at the moment is really depressing. Hopefully some challenge cup success next week will lift us for the okay offs.

I can see us finishing 4th, playing hudds away in the play offs.

Finish 3rd, away to Wire, win in a close game, Leeds do over Huddersfield. We get the Club Call, pick Huddersfield at home and take on Leeds in the Final after they beat Wire in the last minute with a horrendous forward pass.

I wish sometimes everyone would just put away the calculators and slide rules, and just play each league game as it comes, to win it and finish as high up the league as possible. Then play what comes up at us. I know it may be a very simplistic point of view, but your head starts to buzz after a bit with all the theories and permutations that are put forward. If you want to be the best, you must at some stage beat the rest. Anyway we’ve seen in the past trying to be too clever can sometimes end up with us dumped in the sh*te!