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Sat 17th Aug: SLMW: Wigan Warriors v St Helens KO 17:00 (Sky)

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  1. 1. Who will win?

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Sat 17th Aug: SLMW: Wigan Warriors v St Helens KO 17:00 (Sky)

(at Elland Road, Leeds)

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Waynebennettswinger
Waynebennettswinger

As a Saints fan I feel his best position is on dual registration. 

latchford albion
latchford albion

Your optimism strikes me like junk mail addressed to the dead.

DavidM
DavidM

That young fullback is gonna be a bit special I reckon 

FearTheVee

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Will be two pretty weak teams facing off this weekend. Probably a game neither club would want at this point.

Interested to see how Farrimond and Robertson go but not sure there'll be too much to read into the play-offs.

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Harry Stottle

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Usually when this fixture is played at Magic it is for bragging rights to see who is best, will this game be to decide who is not worse on current form?

If that makes sense.

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Father Ted

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Wigan have French, Smith and O'Neil out of their spine. Saints have the whole of their spine missing. Weslby, Lomax, Dodd, Knowles & Clarke all out.

Wigan's advantage, slightly. 

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FearTheVee

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1 hour ago, Father Ted said:

Wigan have French, Smith and O'Neil out of their spine. Saints have the whole of their spine missing. Weslby, Lomax, Dodd, Knowles & Clarke all out.

Wigan's advantage, slightly. 

When you add in both centres out injured also (Percy/Hurrell) I'd say it's more than a slight advantage to Wigan.

Can see a 16+ point Wigan win.

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Loiner

Loiner

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Hoping for a Wigan win, both teams missing quite a few, can still be an entertaining game could go either way.

JohnM

JohnM

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Difficult to predict. 

Our discipline remains a problem, as does Smith's three-game ban. Really need Farrell to drive his team, because no matter how bad Saints are, especially without Welsby, they'll be highly motivated.

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colin galbraith

colin galbraith

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Eckersley full back, Field and Leeming in the halves, Forber at hooker? By the way, what is the situation with Mike Cooper, not appeared since his HIA, I would have imagined him playing a role over the last couple of weeks?  

EagleEyePie

EagleEyePie

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Wigan look stronger in terms of personnel but I wouldn't say we're favourites by much. The Saints pack is still very strong and games like this are often decided by the packs. Dominate up front and you can mitigate the lack of experience in the halves.

As Wigan don't really look for offloads and play a more pattern based attack I think we have to compete well down the middle in order to win. It's all about getting into the right positions and keeping the opposition where they don't want to be. Unfortunately a lot of that comes through Harry Smith's kicking. It can help to negate our discipline issues because at least we're conceding penalties in areas we can recover from. If we end sets badly and compound it with ill discipline Saints will find it easy to keep us contained.

I think Saints will be much more adept at taking advantage of moments. There are some weak links in the Wigan side that can be picked apart as many teams have shown over the last few weeks. It's just a case of being patient and waiting for the mistakes to happen.

Even with inexperienced halves I think Saints will win this.

graveyard johnny

graveyard johnny

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shaun wane looks like a drunk dragged out of the local pub 

I know Bono and he knows Ono and she knows Enos phone goes thus 

Futtocks

Futtocks

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Shaun Wane on crutches?

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graveyard johnny

graveyard johnny

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1 minute ago, Futtocks said:

Shaun Wane on crutches?

coaching all those international matches  takes it toll

I know Bono and he knows Ono and she knows Enos phone goes thus 

bobbruce

bobbruce

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4 minutes ago, Hopie said:

England coach keeps saying "we" for Wigan, glad to see his years in the job haven't changed his loyalties...

Doesn’t he still work for Wigan. 

Futtocks

Futtocks

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No Liam Farrell. 😞 

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Futtocks

Futtocks

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Brian, I don't think it'll be a 13 minute round of applause.

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graveyard johnny

graveyard johnny

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no traditional kits in sight or even traditional kit colours - an instant turn off

I know Bono and he knows Ono and she knows Enos phone goes thus 

Dunbar

Dunbar

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Don't really understand the pundit analysis on this one.  They are talking as if Wigan are the ones with no spine and yet Saints have none of their spine available either.

Wigan look stronger to me.

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DavidM

DavidM

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4 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Brian, I don't think it'll be a 13 minute round of applause.

Saddam Hussain got applause like that because  noone wanted to be the first to stop 

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