Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Fri Apr 08, 2022 1:51 pm  

upthecats wrote:

Seems an odd decision though doesn't it...'saving' a player for Easter?

Forget about Easter this is a massive game...bigger than any league game coming up!

Just think about it...it's the challenge cup...who would it mean most to out of all our squad? The homegrown local lads without a doubt...Crowther and Batchelor have been brilliant this season and surely both should play....it's the little things these two do that spurs on others....Crowther starts and Batchelor can give us a real lift when coming on from off the bench...

Surely Gaskell has to be involved too? He got the 80 minutes in the reserves and showed his class in that. We won't beat this Wigan side bulldozing them through the middle with 4 forwards on the bench...it could take a touch of class from a player like Gaskell to open up their very mean defence...also gives us covers in the backs as losing backs through games has proved costly to us twice...once losing us a game and once nearly throwing a game away!

With you all the way on this one , throw the kitchen sink at em I say , it may be a long time before we’re in this position again

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Fri Apr 08, 2022 2:41 pm  

Kettykat wrote:

With you all the way on this one , throw the kitchen sink at em I say , it may be a long time before we’re in this position again

Poaching will have to be canny with his squad over Easter, no doubt about it but, this is cup rugby. Loser goes home.
I'm with you, it has to be the kitchen sink and anything else we can find, thrown at this one.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:22 pm  

Play your strongest team that’s fit. It’s that simple. If a few players pick up knocks there’s players banging on the door to get their shot.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:31 pm  

Trojan Horse wrote:

Play your strongest team that’s fit. It’s that simple. If a few players pick up knocks there’s players banging on the door to get their shot.

Yep. If last week's chosen team is fit then go with it. If we pick up injuries then we bring in fresh troops for the Cas game.

Re: Squad for Wigan CC : Fri Apr 08, 2022 4:20 pm  

PopTart wrote:

I'd go with
1 Jowitt
2 Johnstone
3 Hall
4 Lyne
5 Kay
6 Miller
7 Lino
8 Fifita
9 Hood
10 Arona
11 Ashurst
12 Pitts
13 Batchelor

14 Gaskell
15 Whitbread
16 Tanginoa
17 Battye

Really torn on Crowther as I want to play him but both Whitbread and Batch have stepped up so I may be saving him for Easter.....and I think we need Gaskell

Id go with that

[PopTart]

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Fri Apr 08, 2022 4:35 pm  

Wigan are at fill strength so if we win we'll deserve it.

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Fri Apr 08, 2022 5:39 pm  

PopTart wrote:

Wigan are at fill strength so if we win we'll deserve it.

Not quite but not far off, nothing that could be used as an excuse, on paper it looks like a cracking match up

Re: Squad for Wigan CC : Fri Apr 08, 2022 6:11 pm  

Spookisback wrote:

Assumptions… TJ not fit as Murphy is in the Squad… Fifita is fit as Aydin isn’t in squad

I have it on VERY good authority that Dave is fully fit and will be playing on Sunday

Re: Squad for Wigan CC : Fri Apr 08, 2022 6:43 pm  

FIL wrote:

I have it on VERY good authority that Dave is fully fit and will be playing on Sunday

I’ve put a sneaky fiver on him at 33/1 to be bbc man of the match. There’s definitely worse 33/1 shots out there. He’s fresh from a few weeks off…he should play big minutes and has got form for playing well against Wigan. If we are to pull off a win he could be a key man in it…

Re: Squad/Team for Wigan CC : Fri Apr 08, 2022 7:33 pm  

It could be that Murphy will take Kay’s place on the wing with him moving to replacement hooker.