Re: Squad for Friday. : Thu Feb 11, 2016 4:58 pm  

Strikes me it would be a good game to have Tierney play in, they are far from full strength, and would be good to see him get more game time to my mind.

Re: Squad for Friday. : Thu Feb 11, 2016 4:59 pm  

Sutton was pretty poor last week so I'm guessing he'll miss out, but I can't see Wane making any changes at FB considering all the time they've spent training up Tierney for the role.

Re: Squad for Friday. : Thu Feb 11, 2016 6:00 pm  

Wigg'n wrote:

Sutton was pretty poor last week so I'm guessing he'll miss out, but I can't see Wane making any changes at FB considering all the time they've spent training up Tierney for the role.

He was. He made 6 drives for 16 metres which for a lad with a lot of hype around him isn't really good enough.

He doesn't get many opportunities to shine but he's certainly going to need to produce more then that if he wants to get a regular spot.

Re: Squad for Friday. : Thu Feb 11, 2016 7:43 pm  

will you get any of your injured players back?

Re: Squad for Friday. : Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:17 pm  

meast wrote:

will you get any of your injured players back?

No.

Both Tomkins, Crosby and Mossop are all out.

Re: Squad for Friday. : Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:58 pm  

shame, i would have preferred to beat a full strength wigan side

Re: Squad for Friday. : Thu Feb 11, 2016 10:12 pm  

meast wrote:

shame, i would have preferred to beat a full strength wigan side

I genuinely think you've got a good chance. The big issues for you are in the pack but we're missing three of our starting (starting 17 that is) players in the pack so that might bring that battle a little closer.

Brough is obviously a huge miss but there's plenty of quality and experience in that back line.

Re: Squad for Friday. : Thu Feb 11, 2016 10:57 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

I genuinely think you've got a good chance. The big issues for you are in the pack but we're missing three of our starting (starting 17 that is) players in the pack so that might bring that battle a little closer.

Brough is obviously a huge miss but there's plenty of quality and experience in that back line.

not really, it looks like we will have a backline of
Murphy, out of position at full back
Leroy & Jerry, but possibly on opposite sides
Jamie Foster!
and an academy lad Sam Wood in the 3/4's, with Connor also out of position at 6.
i would say the backs are going to be a totally unknown quantity, our entire left side is decimated, which leaves us vulnerable in defence.
as for the pack, yes, we still have Rapira, Hinchliffe, Lawrence(unless he plays in the backs) and patrick, but we also have 3 young lads possibly making up the numbers there.
i'd say that we are likely to be missing at least 7 who would be in the starting team tomorrow, i hope we keep it close and give a good account of ourselves, and you never know, ol big gob himself might just get too carried away and motivate us even more
i would rather have Wigan's injury problems than ours!

Re: Squad for Friday. : Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:25 pm  

Tonights result at Salford hopefully will keep us focused.
Huddersfield's injury list is much deeper than ours and you would like to think with the 2 squads listed we have a strong chance tomorrow for a win.
Hopefully SW will use Saints poor attitude tonight to avoid any complacancy on our part because Huddersfield have a point to prove after last seasons play offs.
I think we will see Burke replace Sutton from last week's squad but other than that I don't see any other changes being made.

Re: Squad for Friday. : Fri Feb 12, 2016 8:27 am  

meast wrote:

not really, it looks like we will have a backline of
Murphy, out of position at full back
Leroy & Jerry, but possibly on opposite sides
Jamie Foster!
and an academy lad Sam Wood in the 3/4's, with Connor also out of position at 6.
i would say the backs are going to be a totally unknown quantity, our entire left side is decimated, which leaves us vulnerable in defence.
as for the pack, yes, we still have Rapira, Hinchliffe, Lawrence(unless he plays in the backs) and patrick, but we also have 3 young lads possibly making up the numbers there.
i'd say that we are likely to be missing at least 7 who would be in the starting team tomorrow, i hope we keep it close and give a good account of ourselves, and you never know, ol big gob himself might just get too carried away and motivate us even more
i would rather have Wigan's injury problems than ours!

We're certainly in better shape injury wise and you'll have a few kids out there but I look at your potential side and see enough about it to make the game a scrap.

I think a lot will depend on what attitude we turn up with.