What about the late hit on the passer. Williams got a ban for that.

I had a nagging familiarity about this game and couldn’t work out why. I think it’s because Wigan & Saints have put this kind of performance on us so often, us close to full strength, them full of kids, and the kids almost or sometimes pulling it off. Great to see a Wire side doing that. I don’t know if that’s a Burgess effect or a good academy side coming of age - probably a lot of both, but shows the importance focusing on youth.

Well done Wire. Buzzing for Wembley, let’s not kid ourselves, we go in as underdogs, but we were in that position in 2019 and put in the best performance in years to pull it off. I know now this team will never let us down in terms of effort and with Williams & Dufty we can cause problems - it’s a nice place to be.

Musgrove as per usual, bang average and disappointing and shys away from work quite alot.
Bullock definately played his way on to the bench for wembley, he has the ability to play like that all the time but just doesn't.
Max Wood i'm gutted for as he was playing really well until his injury, him and bullock are better than Musgrove.
Halroyd had a good solid game, like someone said i just hope he can put a little bit more size on.
All the youngsters did really well and i'm absolutely buzzing with them all.
Yeah if Keighran doesn't get a ban it will be absolutely shocking.
Dupree i completely missed that incident, i feel he'll get away with that though.
All in all we'll be really confident going in to next week

Redvee style “Drinkwater banned, Dupree slap on the wrist, Keighran a bit of a talking to and £5 from the poor box”.
I t actually think Keighran will be the only ban.

This. Exactly the same thoughts i had. Years gone by we would have been mauled by Wigan with that many first teamers missing. How times have changed. Thankfully, for us , for the better.

That was a terrific performance and great effort shown all round. Most pleasing part was that we didn't buckle in the second half, and we didn't concede any soft tries. Burgess should be happier than Peet, after yesterday, as he's got a win from handing debuts out who didn't look out of place, and has our strike players fresh and free of the disciplinary panel for Saturday. Underdogs is fine, it's just a label that doesn't stop me being quietly confident about the final, as were shaping up to be a very competitive team.

Personally I think Drinkwater might be in trouble and, if so, it’d be a huge blow to how we play and the form he’s in. Much bigger blow than Wigan losing Keighran IMO. Just can’t second guess this panel.

When I saw the team, I thought it was a risk playing Drinkwater, given that we had taken the rest of our spine out of the fixture.

I too don't trust Cullen et al.

What did Drinky allegedly do and when?

I think it was a high shot?