Plenty of options there, from that I'd say there's 5 nailed on in the 17. O'Neil, Leeming, Walters, Nsemba and Ellis.

You pays your money and take a chance with naming the rest of the team

Wire are resting everyone, I expect Vaughan/Dufty/Drinkwater/Nicholson to miss out from their 21 so that’s pretty much 14 players rested.

Warrington resting at least 8

Given Wires squad I’d go



French

Douglas

Keighran

Eckerlsey

Marshall

Hampshire

Farrimond

Havard

O’Neill

Byrne

Nsemba

Walters

Ellis



Hill

Cooper

Leeming

Mago



Rest Dupree, Field, Smith, Wardle.



After seeing Wires squad, shame Eseh/Forber aren’t in our squad.

I don’t think Forber is fit but I am surprised that Eseh is not in the 21.

Blooming heck Stu, it should be a good/tight game, it is after all a Challenge Cup Final. Warrington have improved ten fold under Burgess and I do agree that Williams is pure class.

I'm leaning towards including Smith and one of French or Field. Outside of the cup, we're in a fantastic position to finish in the top 2 if we win this game.

Same team for me as well. Looking forward to seeing how the younger lads go.

Hmm, if I was a Wigan fan, I wouldn't want French being risked this week, mainly due to the possible impact of the HIA rules, which I have alluded to on the Wire board. It's a shame we've ended up with a diluted game this week, but it will still be interesting. From a Wire viewpoint, a chance to see a few of our young lads in action and assess where they are at.

Wonder what the gameplan from the weakened Wire team will be? They will have a dig no doubt early on but wonder if they will try rattle us into a ill-disciplined performance hoping we may get a ban or two?



If we can get through this game injury free with a win and no bans we will have done amazingly well.

Out of every player we have named he's the one I wouldn't risk. If he does play I'd be tempted to haul him off if we take a healthy lead early on.

Totally get your point but I think there’s an argument about being over cautious. We’ve played about 13 games this year and French, Smith, Field etc have all survived without getting bans or HIAs.



Wire have wrapped everyone in cotton wool but Paul Vaughan could suffer a HIA in the first contact at Wembley and miss the whole game. Anything can happen.



Thompson missed the WCC but Harvie Hill game in and had a blinder.



If worst thing did happen we’d just play Hampshire and the rest of the team would have to step up.



Sound arrogant but Wigan are trying to win the quadruple, putting a score on a young Wire team would go a long way to securing along Way to securing the LLS.