They’ve got French and Field out, but another stern test for us.

2pm kick off for this one for some reason. Maybe to allow more time to drown our sorrows.

It's going to be tough to keep this one respectable. Definitely need to maintain the good attitude seen in recent weeks but also need to be a lot smarter and disciplined.

It's pace and speed of ptb that kills us. Marginally better with no field or french but could still be a bloodbath

I do hope nobody dies!

Adam Keighran has won his appeal over his one match ban and is available for the game on Saturday.

Pretending I havent seen this so I arrive fashionably an hour late and get turned away by the stewards

Just watched the first half of SoO
Rovers started like an Origin team v FC for the first 10 mins
We need to play like an Origin team with the that intensity !!!
We have to play committed rugby or we could be in for a long arvo

The best defensive team in the league , We'll be lucky to get anywhere near their 20 meter line never mind the try line .

To even attempt to compare Dobbins to either of the teams in Origin is a total blasphemy. Wigan, our best team by far, wouldn’t compete.

I stuck my neck out last week and predicted that we might pull off a derby upset victory!!! Don't think I will be quite so bold on this one!!!

Obviously Wigan are the current benchmark team in British Rugby League, the best attacking side, the best defensive side, the best team to watch playing open expansive rugby, although the absence of their two star players blunts their excitement quota a little.

A win for us on Saturday will constitute the biggest miracle since Jesus fed the five thousand (and he managed that without having access to the craven park kebab vans!!). Anything below thirty points I'll take. Really hope we don't find ourselves back in the land of hammerings once more. Unless they pick up a couple of sin-bins through the game, think scoring may be a problem for us here.

Fingers crossed, we live in hope as always. Failing that, there is always the power of prayer to get us through the afternoon!!!

You could go further. No individual NRL team would get within cooee of either SOO side. Those teams are literally the best of the best.