Dom Manfredi is first choice at Wigan and currently fit?

Major blow for us, and were doing it tough at the moment.



Think promoting from within, with very little game time, and given how tight the league is looking right now, I think its a huge gamble, throwing someone in for 3 months solid. We are 4th, but what 4 points off the relegation spot. We have lost our most dangerous wide channel, both our left wide players.



Personally, if the funds are there to bring someone in, i wouldnt be wasting time until after Easter. Other clubs may have the same ideas, and beat us to signing the right player

How do you know that 'person' will work? You don't anymore than promoting from within won't. This is how many players get a chance, why rob them of it.

When you think last season, between them, Bill and TJ attained about 40 tries between them. That's approximately 160 points. Hell of a high proportion of the season's total and instrumental in us finishing in 5th position. Whoever replaces them, I can;'see them amassing anything like that number of points. Hence, do we finish outside the top 5 on that basis??

Well, maybe we do maybe we don't, who knows, no point in obsessing over it, it is what it is.

I'm quite happy with the cover we have, I mean who the hell can replace Tupou and Johnstone anyway, who in the league could ??

Doesn't matter which way you cut it, its gonna be a compromise.

If I had to wet my knickers over something, it would be the wing berth, I'm not so concerned about because we have Arundel, I reckon Reynolds could make a go of it and be useful if Joe hits the skids.

No its that wing, no out and out specialist with SL experience.

Having said that, we could try Kershaw for a bit but after him its make do and mend.

We can't just rock up with a bag of cash and replace 2 of the best players in SL like for like, its not possible, so we have to accept we may not be as effective, but its a team game and we have to, and will.....adapt

We will have to adjust our style of play no doubt about it, that said BJB is yet to score this season and he's normally prolific himself. Maybe we need to look right a bit more

Agreed! we need to get BJB away a bit more and play out towards the LHS a bit. I think this must be his leanest spell since he started with us.

Personally I'd give young Kershaw a chance. There's loads of experience in the team to help him learn his trade.

Reynolds to me is an unknown but if you don't play these guys you never know how they will go.

Sorry!! That should be RHS, of course>

No one know whether it will work or not, and if we could all predict whats going to happen in the future, we'd be winning the lottery.



However, giving one of the kids 13 or so games, more so to replace TJ, and filling such big boots us a huge gamble, for someone with little game time.



Although Max improved during the Warrington game, he struggled at first, and Kershaw did not look ready in the friendlies I saw. It could be a weakness for us, for the rest of the season, and other clubs, with smart coaches and players will exploit that.



No problem for a few games, but a block of games like that. Huge gamble, and with automatic relegation this year, though call to make.



On top of this, whos to say that over the next three months or so, Lyne, Arundel or Bish, dont end up injured. We are stretched.

Forgive me was Tom Johnstone not a young unproven player once? Did he not have minimal game time before he became a regular, did we not give him an opportunity in a much weaker team than the current lot we have now? If you never play them they'll never be good enough. Drop Kershaw in, see how he goes, if things look like they are getting on top of him then pull him out of the line up to recuperate.

This is shattering!!!! 2 out of 3 best players are gone for the season.



we are seriously struggling in the outside backs now

voice of reason as ever, spot on.

He was Khlav, you are right.



I think what happened with him though was he scored a few tries in pre season, so he was ready, and then when he first came in the side in 2015, he was blooded in gradually, with a few games here and there. What they didnt do is play him for a long consecutive stint of games.

Kershaw was out of sorts on Boxing Day, but the previous year he was outstanding. Rather than judge him on the one poor game we’ve seen him have, I’d rather focus on the two or three decent ones. And he looks to have been doing okay at Oldham as well.

It is a blow Bill being out for so long but people are getting carried away, in my opinion Bill was out of sorts last week and was taken off injured, we've still got Arundel in the centres so only have to replace TJ, it's not a great position to be in but in effect we're replacing a winger.

To be honest we are going to need a refresh at Easter anyway.

I'd rather have an inexperience winger who knows his game than an experienced player playing out of position.

It's important to give him and Jowitt a chance from the terrace too.

Too many players are given a chance only for the crowd to get on their back on the first mistake.

Huddersfields biggest threat is their right edge - I'm happy with Max and Joe to contain this. It certainly dulls our left side attack - we'll just have to go down the right and the middle. Concentrating on that might even open up the left a bit, and both Joe and Max have scored there recently.

Saw the Tupou injury incident last night on Trin TV. Adam Walker responsible.

I agree and Joe had a good game last week. He's bit of a class act himself and reduces the loss of Bill.

As for the loss of Tom, give youth a chance!

Noticed the same. (edited. You know you can't say that. ....Poptart)

If you'd asked me who did it before I'd seen it, I would have guessed Turgut because he really was.....pushing the envelope

Nah, Turgut was going for the heads, must have been an executioner in a past life.

Gill Dudson did a good one on Jordan with his forearm, must be a Wigan thing.

Jordan was Dudsons target all game....its a physical size thing