Adding Karl Pryce shows that you're clutching at straws. Classing a Bradford and Union reject as your own youth !!

Nice try though.

Mark Flanagan would win the game single handedly for Wigan . . . he has had first team experience at Halifax

Frightening side that.

I am still waiting for Y2K - the year of the Warrior as well as 'the New Breed' to come to fruition.



Wigan fans are the new Wires... Is Paul Darbyshire the next Paul Sculthorpe yet?

Veivers v Lomax

Ainscough v Amrstrong

Marsh v Dean

Thornley v Foster

Charnley v Baines

Pryce v Wheeler

Tomkins v Eastmond

O'Carroll v Graham

McIlorum v Roby

Prescott v Emmitt

Hansen v Clough

Mossop v Dixon

Tomkins v Ashurst



Farrell v Thompson

Davies v Yates

Flanagan v Magennis

Tuson v Frodsham



Anyone fancy having a pop at splitting the two?

It's more frightening than the Saints team that was put up, in particular the back line.

Especially the back line? You mean ours that have 5 players with first team experience to your 3, 1 of which is a Bradford reject?



Ok.

From what I have seen on more than enough occasions to judge the only Saints players in the 1-7 who are better than the Wigan backline are Lomax and Wheeler. I would take the Wigan backline anyday over the Saints one, as proven in the last u21s encounter. If you was there you would have known this, the league table also doesn't lie. Our 18's are also top at the moment of their league, are you going to tell me that the Saints 18's are also better? Even though the league table suggests otherwise.

you lot have been saying this for years:



"lets see how you cope without...



Bobby Goulding

Paul Newlove

Chris Joynt

Tommy Martyn

Paul Sculthorpe

Jamie Lyon

...."



plus any other number of names. now its Long and KC, in a couple of years it will be "lets see how you cope without Pryce and Wilkin", then it will be "lets see how you cope without Roby and Graham".



We always cope.

Well done, but we're talking young local talent, which for us would include the likes of Lomax, Graham, Roby, Clough, Frodsham - all of whom didn't play in the reserve GF loss.



After all Wigan's bleating about Saints putting players in from the first team squad to boost the reserve grand final side, we didn't. Wigan, however, played Goulding, McIlorum and O'Carroll who were regular first teamers and a couple were going to the World Cup

Suppose you can't blame them - we did finish top of both academy leagues last season after all. We were winning at half time too.



Wigan's youngsters may well be winning at reserve team level - bolstered as it has been at certain points by the likes of Smith, Mathers, Pryce, Goulding who have played first team for years - but Saints academy has produced the last 3 MoS winners. I know which one I'd rather have.



If we put all our home grown players up against all Wigan's it would be a massacre. Name a home grown, on the books wigan team that could live with:



Wellens

Armstrong

Dean

Wheeler

Lomax

Eastmond

Matty Smith

Graham

Cunningham

Frodsham

Clough

Ashurt

Roby



Moore

Emmitt

Dixon

Ellis



England international on the bench

I wondered how long it would take for someone to roll that out. Long and Cunningham are far more influential than any of those players.