Re: Good Friday : Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:56 pm  

thesaint71 wrote:

We've had Kendall for two of our three home games this season

Have you?

I read you had him in your first home game against Leeds and then it was Moore against Hull and Jack Smith last week. As far as I was aware you’d not had him since the titty lips came out after that Leeds game (either at home or away) but happy to stand corrected if that’s not right.

It wouldn’t be the first time Saints had moaned that much about Kendall, that the RFL bottled putting him on your games for ages afterwards.

Re: Good Friday : Wed Apr 05, 2023 5:59 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

Have you?

I read you had him in your first home game against Leeds and then it was Moore against Hull and Jack Smith last week. As far as I was aware you’d not had him since the titty lips came out after that Leeds game (either at home or away) but happy to stand corrected if that’s not right.

It wouldn’t be the first time Saints had moaned that much about Kendall, that the RFL bottled putting him on your games for ages afterwards.

Yes. He was the ref last Friday against Wakefield so that’s 2 out of 3 home games.

Re: Good Friday : Wed Apr 05, 2023 9:43 am  

Stu M wrote:

Yes. He was the ref last Friday against Wakefield so that’s 2 out of 3 home games.

Must’ve been a misprint I read. Fair enough, they’ve not bowed down to the pressure this time, which is positive.

I just don’t understand why the game puts itself in a position of having a Wiganer in charge of The Derby when they don’t need to. It leaves him open to allegations of bias either way.

Re: Good Friday : Wed Apr 05, 2023 10:02 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

Must’ve been a misprint I read. Fair enough, they’ve not bowed down to the pressure this time, which is positive.

I just don’t understand why the game puts itself in a position of having a Wiganer in charge of The Derby when they don’t need to. It leaves him open to allegations of bias either way.

I think that there are about four Wigan based refs so it would cut the choice down considerably?

Re: Good Friday : Wed Apr 05, 2023 10:13 am  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

I think that there are about four Wigan based refs so it would cut the choice down considerably?

Just don’t see why it can’t be Kendall or Thaler. I get that the pool is cut hugely because the Moore brothers, Jack Smith and Griffiths (I think) are from Wigan but unless there is no reasonable alternative, it seems easily avoided.

I’m also happy to admit that these guys aren’t biased but it just leaves that stick there to beat them with. Saints seem to like Moore and I think he’s dreadful. That isn’t going to be him going hard on Wigan because he doesn’t want to seem bias (in all likelihood) and the truth probably is, that his reffing style just doesn’t fit with our playing style. I always think Kendall is fine and Saints seem to detest him and again he isn’t going to be bias against Saints, it’s probably just that his style doesn’t lead to good outcomes when it comes to how they play the game.

Re: Good Friday : Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:09 am  

“The Wigan Head Coach has made three changes to the squad, with the inclusion of Iain Thornley, Junior Nsemba and Tom Forber.

Willie Isa is unavailable for the Warriors after picking up a one-match suspension, whilst Jai Field and Cade Cust are unavailable through injury.”


No Astley so Sam Powell in the halves.

If everyone’s fit I’d go

French
Miski
King
Wardle
Marshall
Powell
Smith
Byrne
O’Neill
Cooper
KPP
Farrell
Smithies

Shorrocks
Havard
Ellis
Singleton

Re: Good Friday : Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:00 pm  

NSW wrote:

“The Wigan Head Coach has made three changes to the squad, with the inclusion of Iain Thornley, Junior Nsemba and Tom Forber.

Willie Isa is unavailable for the Warriors after picking up a one-match suspension, whilst Jai Field and Cade Cust are unavailable through injury.”


No Astley so Sam Powell in the halves.

If everyone’s fit I’d go

French
Miski
King
Wardle
Marshall
Powell
Smith
Byrne
O’Neill
Cooper
KPP
Farrell
Smithies

Shorrocks
Havard
Ellis
Singleton

Although i would like to see KPP drop to the bench in favour of Shorrocks, and if i really had my way Shorrocks loose and Smithies SR, i think this is the most likely team.

Re: Good Friday : Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:14 pm  

NSW team will be the 17 you’d imagine (presuming Marshall and Faz are ok). Missing a few players isn’t ideal but we can’t complain with the luck we’ve had so far this season and I’m sure we’ll give it a real crack.

Looking forward to it. Good Friday always feels like Christmas Day did as a kid, now I’m fat and old and get pleasure from drinking beer and watching rugby.

Re: Good Friday : Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:00 pm  

NSW wrote:

“The Wigan Head Coach has made three changes to the squad, with the inclusion of Iain Thornley, Junior Nsemba and Tom Forber.

Willie Isa is unavailable for the Warriors after picking up a one-match suspension, whilst Jai Field and Cade Cust are unavailable through injury.”


No Astley so Sam Powell in the halves.

If everyone’s fit I’d go

French
Miski
King
Wardle
Marshall
Powell
Smith
Byrne
O’Neill
Cooper
KPP
Farrell
Smithies

Shorrocks
Havard
Ellis
Singleton

That's as strong as we could have hoped for.

I'm slightly gutted that Astley isn't playing. Not because I'm raving about him as a player, but these games have a history of young lads coming in for the derby and just playing well. Obvious comparison would have been Luke Robinson's role in the comeback victory at KR, or Brown at the DW. Didn't one of the Coyle brothers also have a blinder at Leeds once?

Re: Good Friday : Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:02 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

NSW team will be the 17 you’d imagine (presuming Marshall and Faz are ok). Missing a few players isn’t ideal but we can’t complain with the luck we’ve had so far this season and I’m sure we’ll give it a real crack.

Looking forward to it. Good Friday always feels like Christmas Day did as a kid, now I’m fat and old and get pleasure from drinking beer and watching rugby.

Me too, on all fronts