Warrington v Wakefield preview
Warrington forward Ben Westwood is expected to be out for around a month for treatment on his ankle.
Warrington Coach says Tony Smith “This week, it looks like we are going to welcome back Stef Ratchford, Mitchell Dodds – to play his first game for the club – and Ben Evans – after a long, lengthy lay-off for him. They will all return to the Reserves grade this week as we welcome them back into the fray and hopefully they’ll have strong and successful returns to playing which will further boost our squad.
“Unfortunately we’ve lost Bennie Westwood for the next few weeks. He’s got a little floating bone in his ankle so will have an operation on Wednesday on that. He’ll be out for best part of a month, so we lose one but hopefully welcome back three this week.”
Nick Scruton returns to the side along with Anthony Walker, they will replace Bill Tupou and Scott Anderson who picked up a knock against Hull KR last weekend.
Head Coach Brian Smith said, "It is great to have Nick Scruton back especially with his experience, he will be captaining the side on Friday night, it gives us an extra boost on top of the boost from last weekend when we got the win. Last weekend was a hard fought under difficult circumstances with the weather however we conceded 15 penalties in that one game so we need to make sure they are not repeated on Friday."
Warrington (from): Atkins, Clark, Cox, Currie, Dwyer, R Evans, Gidley, Hill, Hughes, Jullien, G King, Lineham, Penny, Philbin, Russell, Sandow, Sims, Westerman, Wheeler.
Wakefield (from): Annakin, Arona, Arundel, Ashurst, England, Finn, Hall, Howarth, Jones-Bishop, Johnstone, Lyne, Miller, Molloy, Scruton, Simon, Sio, A. Tupou, Walton, Walker.
