Ashton 
Crowther 
Currie 
Dufty 
Fitzgibbon 
Harrison 
Holroyd 
Irwin 
King
Musgrove 
Philbin 
Powell 
Ratchford 
Russell 
Sneyd
Tai
Thewlis
Vaughan 
Walker 
Wood 
Yates 

Dufty
Ashton
King
Tai
Thewlis
Ratchford
Sneyd
Vaughan
Walker
Harrison
Holroyd
Fitzgibbon
Currie


Powell
Philbin
Musgrove
Yates


Not keen with Walker at half back, get a recognised half in there.

Why not give Irwin a run out, nothing to lose now and it?s an opportunity to see how he goes at this level.

It will be interesting to see if Irwin gets a game.

He would be opposing the Saints halfback Whitby, who is a year older than him.


Both very young at 18 and 17 but great prospects

I haven't seen Irwin play - but he's thought of very highly at the club.  My concern would be throwing him in at 17 against a team like Saints who will play with lots of intensity.

Burgess played Lindop at a similar age away in France, so he isn`t scared of selecting players when they are so young, if he considers that they are good enough and can cope with the associated game pressure.

If he has the talent Irwin should be ok ,there were a lot of young lads who went into a very intense situation in 1939.
I see Leyland is out in the cold again.

Saints did it against Wigan last week with Whitby. Maybe that's what we need to do from time to time instead of giving 35 year old Stef Ratchford a new deal and playing him.

When we signed Leyland, Burgess said: "Oli is a great young player who we were keen to bring to Warrington. I'm excited to see him develop with us next year." So how is being at Widnes helping him to develop with us? He is still very new to our club, so surely it would be better for him to be with our group, learning our systems and forging better relationships with our other half-backs, rather than being up the road? You have to wonder what's going on. With Williams and Hayes both out injured, how is a kid like Irwin getting into the squad ahead of Leyland? What must that be doing to Leyland's confidence? It would be nice if the WG could ask these type of questions on behalf of the fans, instead of just acting as the club's mouthpiece.

The WG interviews are about as incisive as a junior reporter from the North Korean Gazette interviewing Kim Jong Un - and they have the temerity to ask you to pay to read them!

As I say, I haven't seen the kid play, just a comment really in terms of his size - Whitby is a year further on in terms of his physical development in a full time environment - which makes a difference.


I would always prefer a good youn'un to play than someone set to retire, the circumstances just have to be right otherwise it can be counterproductive. Maybe the cuircumstances are right, he plays and he blows us away - lets hope as from what I'm hearing there are question marks about Hayes.


Lindop had the size already, so less of an issue with him.