Re: Team V Leeds : Sun Apr 11, 2021 5:56 pm  

Looks like Leeds won't have any recognised half backs and are in the same boat as us centre wise.
If our pack stands up to theirs you'd hope we'll have enough guile in Hastings and co to see us home.

Re: Team V Leeds : Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:22 am  

I think we should Chuck french in on the wing and if Gildart still isn’t fit I would give halsall a go at centre as he went well vs York.

Hardaker
French
Halsall
Isa
Bibby
Hastings
Leuluai
Singleton
Powell
Havard
Farrell
Bateman
Partington

Smith
Smithies
Shorrocks
Bullock

Re: Team V Leeds : Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:01 am  

apollosghost wrote:

Looks like Leeds won't have any recognised half backs and are in the same boat as us centre wise.
If our pack stands up to theirs you'd hope we'll have enough guile in Hastings and co to see us home.

Talk this morning is that Eastmond will probably debut. I don’t think that’s a bad thing from our POV. He might get back in to the swing of Rugby League in a couple of months but I’d imagine he’ll be blowing in his first game back after a year away from any rugby and 10 years or so of standing with his hands in his pockets before that.

I’d imagine Wigan will try and make the game as uncomfortable as possible for him. Keep running at him with the ball and pressure him when he has it.

Re: Team V Leeds : Mon Apr 12, 2021 1:15 pm  

FIOS wrote:

I think we should Chuck french in on the wing

Me too, unless he's so far off that they're worried about French picking up an injury. Don't want to throw Hanley under the bus when he's still so young, but he's obviously being targeted at the end of sets and so far, he's struggled. They'd probably target French in a similar way, but at least we'd have his attacking threat to go with it.

NickyKiss wrote:

Talk this morning is that Eastmond will probably debut. I don’t think that’s a bad thing from our POV. He might get back in to the swing of Rugby League in a couple of months but I’d imagine he’ll be blowing in his first game back after a year away from any rugby and 10 years or so of standing with his hands in his pockets before that.

I’d imagine Wigan will try and make the game as uncomfortable as possible for him. Keep running at him with the ball and pressure him when he has it.

Hope so! He might end up making me look stupid, but I can't see him being anything other than a liability until much later in the season. Unless they're paying him buttons, I think it's a shocking signing to be honest.

Re: Team V Leeds : Mon Apr 12, 2021 1:36 pm  

He’ll probably rip us a new one but I agree. The lad was a sick note the last time he was in league and that was when he was young, fresh and hadn’t been stood on the wing, warming his hands in Union for ten years. I doubt they’ll start him even with their injuries but he could play for 40/50 mins from the bench and I wouldn’t be against that.

Re: Team V Leeds : Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:43 pm  

French in contention according to Lam although they will check on him later in the week, I’d put him on the left wing for a few games to build his match fitness.

Sounds like Manfredi maybe next week.

Re: Team V Leeds : Mon Apr 12, 2021 4:15 pm  

sergeant pepper wrote:

Nah. It's still practically the preseason in the eyes of Lam & the club so why bother playing him.

BTW I realise that's harsh, but I'm pretty bored of it all tbh. We've (rightly) had many conversations on here about self fulfilling prophecies and how if we continue to put the
British game down and say how there's a lack of stars, then we'll never climb back up as a sport...

Well this is Wigan Vs Leeds. Two of the biggest teams in the history of the British game & a real highlight of the fixture schedule. We need our biggest players (for both teams) out there. Not resting one of our best after 4 months off, especially when he's supposedly been following a club plan & have a mid season break lined up too.

The biggest team in the history of the British game and a team in our shadow

Re: Team V Leeds : Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:25 pm  

NSW wrote:

French in contention according to Lam although they will check on him later in the week, I’d put him on the left wing for a few games to build his match fitness.

Sounds like Manfredi maybe next week.

It sounds a 50/50 on French. Whatever happens, I just hope we can get these lads back at least a week before the cup game to give them some miles in their legs. A back line of French, Manfredi, Hardaker, Gildart and Bibby (or jigged round if Hardaker stays at fullback) for that game would be ideal and much needed.

Re: Team V Leeds : Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:17 pm  

NickyKiss wrote:

It sounds a 50/50 on French. Whatever happens, I just hope we can get these lads back at least a week before the cup game to give them some miles in their legs. A back line of French, Manfredi, Hardaker, Gildart and Bibby (or jigged round if Hardaker stays at fullback) for that game would be ideal and much needed.

I think that's the plan, although I have worries about Gildart.

Re: Team V Leeds : Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:04 pm  

Sweaty Betty's wrote:

I think that's the plan, although I have worries about Gildart.

Same here, no mention of him at the briefing