Alex Neil has explained the absence of both Danny Batth and Callum Doyle from the team sheet yesterday at Wigan…
BATTH
"Danny's has been rumbling on, really. It's just on the bridge of his foot/ankle, and it just keeps swelling up and then going down, and swelling again. That's just really unfortunate. I don't think it's going to be anything long term.”
DOYLE
"With Callum, we've spoken about how knackered he is. He was feeling a little bit of an impingement on his hip, nothing too significant, but I just basically said to him to go and have four or five days off, chill out, and we'll see you next week. Listen, could he have played a cup final? Probably, but the kid needs a rest, so that's where we are."
ARBY
"Arby has not played for a long, long time so I was delighted for him that he got an opportunity, and he put in a real, solid performance for us. Arby is hungry to play, you saw at the end there he went down with cramp and that's always the concern. I'll think he'll be OK. It's just trying to get people up to speed. What I will say that is because we didn't deploy a man-for-man system like we have done in one or two other games, that backline was protected. We played solid and narrow, and our two wide players and forwards did the bulk of the running."
