Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final

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endoman
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Re: Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final

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Wintergreen wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 6:03 pm
endoman wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 1:46 pm Finals are not the place to be risking players. Bench at best for Tommy.
Radlinski? :?
Well if Tommy is fit it's not a risk, I haven't a clue re his fitness, and a bench spot helps mitigate that. I remember the days of Hanley doing fitness tests at Wembley. Rads at Murrayfield was a risk I agree, but more a medical issue than fitness. I'll be as please as anyone to see Tommy lift the cup on Saturday.
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Re: Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final

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Exiled Wiganer wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 2:30 pm This is Tommy we are talking about - no one knows better than him how his body works and what he can contribute. He is too honourable a man to blag it. Tommy instead of Shorrocks on the bench is a huge bonus for us. So, whoever wrote the story earlier this week about Tommy holding up the trophy knew what he was writing after all... If I wasn’t excited enough already!!!

Field - Marshall - Bibby - Thornley (who was superb when we won the CC against Hull) - French
Cust - Smith
Singleton - O’Neill - Ellis
Bateman - Farrell - Smithies
Mago - Byrne - Havard - Tommy

In those we place our trust.
The only change to that, I suspect, will be Byrne to start and Ellis from the bench.

As an afterthought, why not Tommy (or Wee Tam) at starting hooker and O'Neill on the bench? This would allow us to see how Tommy goes, and O'Neill could come on against a tired opposition.
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Re: Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final

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medlocke wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:04 pm Tommy hasn't earned the right to play in such an important game straight back from injury, the End
Meds spots another chance to stir the pot :lol:

Matty Peet will make the decision. He is better informed than any of us, including Meds. And he's better qualified. And he's not a wind-up merchant.

I'm happy for us to go with whatever Peet decides.
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Re: Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final

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morley pie eater wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 6:45 pm
medlocke wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:04 pm Tommy hasn't earned the right to play in such an important game straight back from injury, the End
Meds spots another chance to stir the pot :lol:

Matty Peet will make the decision. He is better informed than any of us, including Meds. And he's better qualified. And he's not a wind-up merchant.

I'm happy for us to go with whatever Peet decides.
Not a wind up, same happened a few years back with Joel Tomkins, came straight back into the GF after being out for ages making Willie Isa miss out even though he had earned his place
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Re: Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final

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josie andrews wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:01 pm Huddersfield squad

1 Will Pryce
2 Jermaine McGillvary
4 Ricky Leutele
5 Ashton Golding
6 Tui Lolohea
7 Theo Fages
8 Chris Hill
9 Danny Levi
10 Michael Lawrence
11 Josh Jones
12 Chris McQueen
13 Luke Yates
14 Matty English
15 Joe Greenwood
16 Jack Cogger
17 Owen Trout
19 Adam O’Brien
20 Oliver Wilson
21 Leroy Cudjoe
22 Louis Senior
23 Olly Russell
25 Innes Senior
29 Sam Hewitt

Theo Fages, Jake Wardle and Sebastine Ikahihifo miss out. ??
I think they can.
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Re: Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final

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Charriots Offiah wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 7:18 pm
josie andrews wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:01 pm Huddersfield squad

1 Will Pryce
2 Jermaine McGillvary
4 Ricky Leutele
5 Ashton Golding
6 Tui Lolohea
7 Theo Fages
8 Chris Hill
9 Danny Levi
10 Michael Lawrence
11 Josh Jones
12 Chris McQueen
13 Luke Yates
14 Matty English
15 Joe Greenwood
16 Jack Cogger
17 Owen Trout
19 Adam O’Brien
20 Oliver Wilson
21 Leroy Cudjoe
22 Louis Senior
23 Olly Russell
25 Innes Senior
29 Sam Hewitt

Theo Fages, Jake Wardle and Sebastine Ikahihifo miss out. ??
I think they can.
Think they can what?
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Re: Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final

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josie andrews wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 7:29 pm
Charriots Offiah wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 7:18 pm
josie andrews wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 5:01 pm Huddersfield squad

1 Will Pryce
2 Jermaine McGillvary
4 Ricky Leutele
5 Ashton Golding
6 Tui Lolohea
7 Theo Fages
8 Chris Hill
9 Danny Levi
10 Michael Lawrence
11 Josh Jones
12 Chris McQueen
13 Luke Yates
14 Matty English
15 Joe Greenwood
16 Jack Cogger
17 Owen Trout
19 Adam O’Brien
20 Oliver Wilson
21 Leroy Cudjoe
22 Louis Senior
23 Olly Russell
25 Innes Senior
29 Sam Hewitt

Theo Fages, Jake Wardle and Sebastine Ikahihifo miss out. ??
I think they can.
Think they can what?
Add to the squad I'm guessing.

Huge blow for them to be missing Fages
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Re: Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final

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Will Pryce at FB after a long ban is a risk?
D'oh, thats the squad listed, not the team :oops:
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Re: Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final

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If Tommy is fit enough to play for even half an hour, then I ask myself who I’d rather have spelling Brad O’Neill from the bench, out of him and Shorrocks and I don’t even need to think about it. I like Shorrocks but he’s never a hooker. Tommy hasn’t been playing hooker lately but many would say it’s his best position.

It’s the only decision to be made you’d imagine.
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Re: Wigan squad for Challenge Cup Final

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23. Field
1. French
2. Bibby
4. Thornley
5. Marshall
6. Cust
16. Smith
20. Byrne
28. O'Neill
15. Ellis
13. Bateman
12. Farrell
14. Smithies

7. Leuluai (depending on match day captain's run etc)
8. Singleton
10. Mago
22. Shorrocks

Very difficult to exclude Havard and Partington and to choose the pack.
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