Evans doesn't need a wake up call, he is just rubbish.

So if you think he's Rubbish then why are you arguing about me thinking we should drop him for Blythe who you also claim is 'awful'? If they are both rubbish/awful then what does it matter who is picked?

I'd be very surprised if it wasn't

Gidley

Russell (Johnson if unfit)
Evans
Atkins
Lineham

Brown
Patton

Cooper
Clark
Sims
Hughes
Savelio
Westerman

Dwyer
Philbin
Westwood
Livett

if Ratchford was back I would probably look to give him a run in the centre ahead of Evans, but the squad just simply isn't healthy enough / big enough to make wholesale changes at this stage. Evans, for all his faults, is better than Blythe.

Hopefully that right edge defence has been doing plenty of work this week, Am I right in thinking Hughes is playing on the left currently? Is iot worth him moving over to the right?

Seriously? Missing more Strike power than :-

Sam Tomkins - Manfredi - Gildart - Tierney - Burgess - Bateman (Plus Sutton & McCollorum Which I don't class as Strike power but Experience etc.)

I agree to an extent about the centres needing a kick up the botty (well the whole back line really). However, you wouldn't have an inexperienced, or non match fit player against Gelling would you? So for me, Atkins has to stay in the starting line up. Also IMO, Livett has shown he can more than hold his own. Id swap him for Evans.

Looking at Wigans squad, this is a great opportunity to get our season back on track......by god we need to.

At least we will have the benefit of Russell's scoots from dummy half this week. He is surprisingly effective at breaking the defensive line.

Because Atkins is comfortably better than both whether in bad form or not... and livett is young, with potential, he would benefit from the experience, and cannot be any worse than Evans.

Whats the point in playing Blythe who is 28 years old and awful? He isn't going to suddenly improve.

Our backline worries me, on the defensive side, but I think we have the advantage in the pack and the halves. I'm getting the feeling of a high scoring close one.

Anything but a comfortable home win for Wire I will
consider as a moral victory for Wigan under the circumstance they are presently in.

A close win spells little or no improvement from the diabolical I've seen over the last 3 SL games.

We've lost 3 games by 10 pts or less, not pleasing, but far from diabolical.