squad announced

Wigan Warriors 19-man-squad
John Bateman, Joe Bretherton, Gregg Burke, Tony Clubb, Liam Farrell, Ben Flower, Anthony Gelling, Oliver Gildart, Nick Gregson, Dom Manfredi, Lee Mossop, Sean O’Loughlin, Sam Powell, Dan Sarginson, Matty Smith, Ryan Sutton, Taulima Tautai, Lewis Tierney, George Williams


Wigan Warriors make three changes to their 19-man squad to face Salford on Thursday.
The Warriors picked up a series of injuries in last weekends World Club Series defeat to Brisbane Broncos.
Lee Mossop, Nick Gregson and Joe Betherton come in to replace Michael McIlorum, Willie Isa and Josh Charnley.
On McIlorums injury Shaun Wane said: “”Micky is being operated on next week, it will be a long one but we’ll know more after the operation.”.
He also went onto confirm that Willie Isa could miss up to 6 weeks after suffering a knee injury. Meanwhile Oliver Gildart looks set to deputise for Josh Charnley again, as the England winger sits out with a facial injury.

On The Red Devils, Wane continued

“They’ve played well, I’ve watched all of their games. They beat us in a pre-season game, we had our internationals missing but they still won.
“They’ve got two good halves and some big names, they’re a tough team to beat but if we’re on we’ll challenge them.”

Salford with an eight point start on the handicap looks a good bet. In the pre season game Lui was as rusty as hell (he dropped it about three times - whilst he looks a real handful now with a few games behind him) but they looked a well drilled unit. Dobson is much happier pulling the strings with Chase out of the way.

If we can somehow scrape a win out of this one it will be a very good result indeed. It needs the fans to be right behind the team on Thursday.

8 point start for Salford sounds like a steal considering our injuries and their great form. Looks like Matty Smith is fine to play then.

That's still a good squad even with the injuries you have.

Will the match be streamed live,for those of us who can't attend ?

If it is I would expect an annoucement sometime next week

That's still a very strong looking Wigan pack.

Our record at your place is abysmal, however I'll travel with a bit more optimism on Thursday than we have done before after our decent start to the season.

i would not be at all surprised if some of those players are either going to play with a niggle, or have a late fitness test. if 2 drop out come thu morning, i would not have to get my surprised face out

I believe it isn't allowed under the current tv. deal.

Tierney
Manfredi
Gelling
Sarginson
Gildhart
Williams
Powell
Sutton
O'loughlin
Mossop
Bateman
Farrell
Flower

Powell
Tautai
Burke
Clubb

Smith is in the 19 so I guess he'll play.

Tierney,
Manfredi, Gelling, Sarginson, Gildart,
Williams, Smith,
Flower, Powell, Mossop,
Farrell, Bateman,
O'Loughlin.

Tautai, Clubb, Sutton, Gregson.

To say we've got a few injuries our side still looks strong. It'll be interesting to see how we bounce back and if we look mentally a little shaky.

Any sort of win would be a very good one.