Re: Castleford at Home : Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:06 am  

Shaun Wane has named his 19-man squad for Friday’s Betfred Super League Semi-Final against Castleford Tigers on Friday 5th October, kick-off 7.45pm.
Wigan welcome back skipper Sean O’Loughlin and scrum-half Tommy Leuluai into the 19-man squad whilst Liam Farrell is retained in the group after making his comeback against Hull FC last Friday.
19-Man Squad for Castleford Tigers: John Bateman, Tony Clubb, Tom Davies, Morgan Escare, Liam Farrell, Ben Flower, Oliver Gildart, Joe Greenwood, Gabe Hamlin, Tommy Leuluai, Dom Manfredi, Romain Navarrete, Sean O’Loughlin, Sam Powell, Dan Sarginson, Ryan Sutton, Taulima Tautai, Sam Tomkins, George Williams.

Re: Castleford at Home : Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:28 am  

Cherry_&_White wrote:

Phil Wilkinson's tweeted that Wigan have sold somewhere in the region of 12k so far. Unsure if that includes the Cas sales too, but with walk-ons etc. it should be reasonable enough.

It includes the Cas fans but still a little better than I expected. Fingers crossed - the players and the occasion deserves a big crowd.

Re: Castleford at Home : Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:34 am  

Cas' 19 man squad.

26. James Clare
23. Mitch Clark
18. Matt Cook
5. Greg Eden
7. Luke Gale
11. Oliver Holmes
14. Nathan Massey
36. Peter Mata’utia
12. Mike McMeeken
9. Paul McShane
10. Grant Millington
13. Adam Milner
2. Greg Minikin
1. Ben Roberts
15. Jesse Sene-Lefao
4. Michael Shenton
16. Joe Wardle
32. Liam Watts
3. Jake Webster

Re: Castleford at Home : Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:38 am  

Strong squad for you guys. Moors and Trueman missing for us.

Re: Castleford at Home : Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:40 am  

cas all the way wrote:

Strong squad for you guys. Moors and Trueman missing for us.

Two strong squads, going to be a cracker.

Re: Castleford at Home : Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:43 am  

Ashton Bears wrote:

Shaun Wane has named his 19-man squad for Friday’s Betfred Super League Semi-Final against Castleford Tigers on Friday 5th October, kick-off 7.45pm.
Wigan welcome back skipper Sean O’Loughlin and scrum-half Tommy Leuluai into the 19-man squad whilst Liam Farrell is retained in the group after making his comeback against Hull FC last Friday.
19-Man Squad for Castleford Tigers: John Bateman, Tony Clubb, Tom Davies, Morgan Escare, Liam Farrell, Ben Flower, Oliver Gildart, Joe Greenwood, Gabe Hamlin, Tommy Leuluai, Dom Manfredi, Romain Navarrete, Sean O’Loughlin, Sam Powell, Dan Sarginson, Ryan Sutton, Taulima Tautai, Sam Tomkins, George Williams.

I'd leave out Tautai and Farrell (purely match fitness on Faz's part) but I'd bet my mortgage it will be Hamlin and Escare.

Re: Castleford at Home : Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:16 pm  

Tautai and very sadly Hamlin to miss out for me.

Re: Castleford at Home : Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:34 pm  

I think that SW will leave out Escare & Tautai but it is such a close call it will probably boil down to personnel carrying injuries and how bad they are together with how training goes this week.
I'd be pretty amazed (unless injured) if Farrell doesn't play.
Ive still got feeling that Flower may not play in which case Tautai would get the slot by default.
Im sure SW would rather have this headache rather than picking from a depleted squad.

Re: Castleford at Home : Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:45 pm  

My excuse for not going is I'm in Florida on holiday haha or I would definitely have gone to the game.

Re: Castleford at Home : Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:11 pm  

MattyB wrote:

It will probably be something as simple as saving money for the final (if we get there).

I know a few people that are planning on going to Old Trafford (should we beat Cas) and it will only be their second game of the season. First one being Saints away on Good Friday (day sesh).

These were season ticket holders 4-5 years ago.

I’d have never thought it 5/10 years ago but this is me and my group of mates.
I’m not going Friday because as petty as it sounds I’d sooner watch on tele than in a half empty, soulless DW. I know that makes me part of the problem but I can only control what I do. Not the other 5k-8k fans we need on the gate to make it an occasion.

Roll on a day session in Salford, Saturday week.