You forgot Monaghan btw. And yes our pack can and will compete with yours. Just wait until 8pm on Saturday and you'll see just how well our forwards will have competed.

If are pack can at least match the wire frontrow, it'll go along way to winning us the game. Are backrowers are at the moment far superior to those that wire have to offer, and should compensate for what were missing upfront.



With are much increased fitness levels, a good way of beating wire would be to simply play the game at a faster pace than they can, by constantly making Morley and Carvell work hard around the ruck and scrambling back, we may be able to take a little sting out of their tails.



I sure are messiah (McGuire) will have a plan on how to handle Morley and Carvell.

If our pack plays as well it has done this season we've more than enough to beat the Wire pack. Wigan win by two scores.

They're only two men! They are good but they're not the greatest players ever to play. If we shut them down early with our IMMENSE tackling and superior ruck speed we will run their 30+ year old props ragged. Then when they go off for their spell having been throuroughly run off their feet for 15-20 mins, Feka comes on and punches holes in their defence like the wrecking ball he is.

When it comes down to it, there are 17v17. All across the field is very evenly matched. I reckon it will be won and lost on tactics. Tony Smith is a bit of a whizz. Even if we are being dominated across the field in the first half we tend to come out in the second half with a different game plan that saves the day. Mr Mcguire is a bit of an unknown entity for me. He's certainly created a well drilled, fit, confident side during the off season. The test is whether that is enough to see you through or whether he has the nouse to change things mid game and have his players stick to it. If he manages that you will win. Me personally, I have faith in Tony fix the issues if and when they arise.

Thanks for coming on and offering some decent insight into the match. The fact that since, well, Sunday both sets of fans have been sniping back and forth about each of their teams pros and cons just shows that Warrington & Wigan are on the up. We have shown over the first two games we are the two teams to beat. With Saints and Leeds losing to teams you wouldn't expect them to lose to early on, we are currently the benchmark of the league this year. The game should be a blackbuster and is genuinley too close to call. We both have decent forwards, a young superstar in the making HB & a genuine belief we can do it this year. He's to October 2nd, May it be a Wigan vs Wire final.

I take it you didn't go to the 2008 World Cup then, Unlike some!

I honestly believe it will be won by the side who has the better discipline.

I think the kicking game will have more of a bearing than that. Ours has been superb since the addition of Deacon to tutor Sam - His kicking was awesome in the HKR game.

That will be a big part of the result but unless its unbelievably one sided, I can't see how the pen count will pick a winner.

What was the Wire pack in the pre-season defeat to Wigan?

We could give the credit to Briers if you prefer, he's our 'thinker' on the field. Just think what could have been on that tour if Briers had gone.