Wigans 19 for Thursday against St Helens : Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:15 pm  

Wigan Warriors today announce their squad for Thursday’s Betfred Super League Round 22 game against St Helens, kick-off 7:45pm.
Dan Sarginson is fit again whilst Joe Greenwood returns from injury to face his former club whilst new-signing Chris Hankinson has been included in the 19.

Oliver Gildart is unavailable after sustaining a thumb injury in last week’s defeat to Huddersfield, whilst Sean O’Loughlin and George Williams are still unavailable for selection due to injury.

Wigan Warriors Squad
John Bateman, Tony Clubb, Tom Davies, Morgan Escaré, Ben Flower, Chris Hankinson, Joe Greenwood, Gabe Hamlin, Willie Isa, Sammy Kibula, Tommy Leuluai, Liam Marshall, Romain Navarette, Liam Paisley, Sam Powell, Dan Sarginson, Taulima Tautai, Sam Tomkins, Josh Woods.


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Re: Wigans 19 for Thursday against St Helens : Tue Jul 17, 2018 3:53 pm  

Tough night ahead!!

Tomkins
Davies
Bateman
Sarginson
Marshall
Woods
Powell
Flower
Leuluai
Navarette
Greenwood
Isa
Hamlin

Clubb
Tautai
Paisley / Hankinson
Escare

Re: Wigans 19 for Thursday against St Helens : Tue Jul 17, 2018 8:46 pm  

Tomkins
Davies
Hankinson
Sarginson
Marshall
Woods
Powell
Flower
Leuluai
Clubb
Greenwood
Isa
Bateman

Tautai
Navarette
Hamlin
Escare

Re: Wigans 19 for Thursday against St Helens : Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:04 pm  

apollosghost wrote:

Tomkins
Davies
Hankinson
Sarginson
Marshall
Woods
Powell
Flower
Leuluai
Clubb
Greenwood
Isa
Bateman

Tautai
Navarette
Hamlin
Escare

I’d go with that. We need Bateman in the middle of the action rattling people and setting the tone.

Fingers crossed Sarginson is fit so we have that option.

Re: Wigans 19 for Thursday against St Helens : Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:28 am  

Will take an enormous effort just to keep close to them, we’ve too much class missing.

Re: Wigans 19 for Thursday against St Helens : Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:34 am  

FB Morgan Escaré
RW Tom Davies
RC Chris Hankinson
LC Dan Sarginson
LW Liam Marshall
SO Josh Woods
SH Sam Tomkins
P Romain Navarette
H Tommy Leuluai
P Ben Flower
SR Willie Isa
SR Joe Greenwood
LF John Bateman

S Tony Clubb
S Sam Powell
S Taulima Tautai
S Gabe Hamlin

Too little pace in the halves if we go with Woods and Powell IMO.

Re: Wigans 19 for Thursday against St Helens : Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:56 am  

Orrell Lad wrote:

Will take an enormous effort just to keep close to them, we’ve too much class missing.

I don't know - Iv seen worse Wigan teams beat better Saints teams. At least we can put out a pack of regular first teamers. They're heavy favourites but if we keep the mistakes and penalties to a minimum we've got a chance. They'll probably get us out wide in the end but you never know.

Re: Wigans 19 for Thursday against St Helens : Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:06 am  

MadDogg wrote:

I don't know - Iv seen worse Wigan teams beat better Saints teams. At least we can put out a pack of regular first teamers. They're heavy favourites but if we keep the mistakes and penalties to a minimum we've got a chance. They'll probably get us out wide in the end but you never know.

I know, and on those occasions it was an enormous Wigan effort that won it! Not saying we can’t win, course we can. I agree it’s on the flanks they’ll hurt us.

Re: Wigans 19 for Thursday against St Helens : Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:04 pm  

Orrell Lad wrote:

I know, and on those occasions it was an enormous Wigan effort that won it! Not saying we can’t win, course we can. I agree it’s on the flanks they’ll hurt us.

Although I do not like losing to Saints it would be better than losing to the teams just below us again. We do what we can tomorrow and see who is avaliable for the next game. In some ways a perfect place to throw the new lad in because we have low expectations of the game. Just hope that he does not become the whipping boy.

Re: Wigans 19 for Thursday against St Helens : Wed Jul 18, 2018 9:56 pm  

Just watched the pre-game interviews on Wigan TV and Powell hasn’t trained at all this week. He’s spent time with the Physio and should be ok to play. Without Lockers, Williams, Burgess, Gildart, Sutton and Farrell who are all nailed on 1st choice 17 players it’s a huge task ahead. Saints are flying and their bubble needs bursting and quick!

Not sure if anybody has saw this, but if Saints get more points than Hull this weekend they have already secured a place in the semi finals. This is a phenomenal stat when we haven’t even got to the Super 8s so fair play to them.

Would be fantastic to burst that bubble tomorrow but as much as I’d love it, I can’t see anything but a comfortable Saints win. Hope I’m wrong!!