Re: 19 Man Squad for Wigan Announced : Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:19 pm  

Rommel wrote:

I'd go with that line up and tell TP to terrorise down the left hand side when attacking?

Easier to do if you put him in the back row, which is why I'd keep him there.

Let TP and Soliola do damage out wide and leave carting the ball up the middle to JP/LMS/Clough and Magennis.

Re: 19 Man Squad for Wigan Announced : Wed Apr 04, 2012 4:05 pm  

1. Paul Wellens,
2. Ade Gardner, 3. Michael Shenton,
26. Josh Jones. 5. Francis Meli,
6. Lance Hohaia, 7. Jonny Lomax,

8. Josh Perry, 9. James Roby, 10. Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook,
11. Tony Puletua 4. Sia Soliola ,,
12. Jon Wilkin,

13. Chris Flannery, 15. Mark Flanagan, 16. Paul Clough, 18. Shaun Magennis,


Obviously if Wellos appeal does not hold Makinson will drop in, having flannery on the bench offers cover for jones at centre.
I would stick with TP in the 2nd row. He gets more joy out wide and Perry and LMS should be able to hold the line. I know clough and magennis are a weaker set of props to replace, but with Sia, TP , Perry and LMS starting Wigan should feel like they are being hit by props all over the feild. Clough and Magennis are more than capable at this level and Wigan are a little lighter in the pack at the moment too. If we play TP at prop, that would just mean that we would be playing a weaker starting 13, by holding LMS on the bench and having flannery or dixon or flanaghan start in the 2nd row.

Re: 19 Man Squad for Wigan Announced : Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:53 pm  

I've hit a feeling flannery will play centre Friday.

Re: 19 Man Squad for Wigan Announced : Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:56 pm  

St pete wrote:

I've hit a feeling flannery will play centre Friday.

Is it that time of the week?

Re: 19 Man Squad for Wigan Announced : Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:02 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

Is it that time of the week?

That's just my feeling, I've not been told any team news other than wheeler was out. I'll prob get txt tomorrow with the team.

Re: 19 Man Squad for Wigan Announced : Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:06 pm  

St pete wrote:

That's just my feeling, I've not been told any team news other than wheeler was out. I'll prob get txt tomorrow with the team.

Seams a bit strange to pick jones though and play flannery. Although if flannery did play then that would mean that Dixon would have to be on the bench as the back on the bench policy has gone and even if we did have a back on the bench it would probably not be jones, more likely Ashe or Gaskell.

Re: 19 Man Squad for Wigan Announced : Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:13 pm  

bewareshadows wrote:

Seams a bit strange to pick jones though and play flannery. Although if flannery did play then that would mean that Dixon would have to be on the bench as the back on the bench policy has gone and even if we did have a back on the bench it would probably not be jones, more likely Ashe or Gaskell.

The fact rush moved him there when Warrington was putting us under pressure makes me feel he will go this way.

Re: 19 Man Squad for Wigan Announced : Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:34 pm  

As I've said before Lomax will be the Wigan target man. Against Wire he only had nine tackles to make and missed two. Wigan won't let him off that lightly.

Re: 19 Man Squad for Wigan Announced : Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:01 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

As I've said before Lomax will be the Wigan target man. Against Wire he only had nine tackles to make and missed two. Wigan won't let him off that lightly.

pretty much the same as sam will be our target man. i would pepper him with high ball cos he couldn't catch a cold and i would also send big forwards with good footwork at him direct as he couldn't tackle a hot dinner.larne patrick walzed around him like he was nailed to the ground, he never seems to get close to players that come at him down the middle

The threat that sam carries is that he is nothing more than a devastating broken field runner, cut this option from his game and he is there to be targetted
Come on you Saints

Re: 19 Man Squad for Wigan Announced : Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:34 pm  

I Grope Balls wrote:

pretty much the same as sam will be our target man. i would pepper him with high ball cos he couldn't catch a cold and i would also send big forwards with good footwork at him direct as he couldn't tackle a hot dinner.larne patrick walzed around him like he was nailed to the ground, he never seems to get close to players that come at him down the middle

The threat that sam carries is that he is nothing more than a devastating broken field runner, cut this option from his game and he is there to be targetted
Come on you Saints

yep, when whenever we've beat them in the last few years its a case of high bomb and smash tomkins a couple of times, he goes hiding, wigan have nothing else and we win