How the desk appears may change drastically by the top of the weekend, with Leeds capable of reclaim prime spot in the event that they beat York Knights on Sunday, whereas a 3rd successive Trinity loss has them at risk of dropping to fifth on Saturday if defending champions Hull KR beat Toulouse Olympique.
Either side had early possibilities to take the lead, however French was the rationale that neither of them managed to open the scoring within the first 10 minutes.
First the Australian wasted a golden alternative to ship Zach Eckersley over with a ahead cross, however inside two minutes he got here up with a surprising try-saving intervention on the different finish by holding Max Jowitt up over the road earlier than the full-back was controversially judged to lose the ball in his try to landing.
Finally, it was French himself who broke the impasse, pouncing on a stray Wakefield cross inside his personal half earlier than sprinting 65 metres untouched to go in close to to the posts.
Two tries in 5 minutes from Marshall out broad put Warriors in a commanding place earlier than the half-hour mark.
Wakefield head coach Daryl Powell known as on Emre Guler for the primary time quickly after that, with the prop coming off the bench simply two days after his transfer from NRL aspect St George Illawarra Dragons was introduced ahead by Trinity.
It was solely 5 days in the past that Guler, who had been attributable to make his Tremendous League transfer subsequent season, had began for the Dragons of their win in opposition to Wests Tigers.
Wakefield threatened to reply quite a lot of occasions earlier than Corridor plucked a looking excessive ball from Jake Trueman from the sky to dot down for the guests within the 53rd minute.
Corridor very almost linked up with Jowitt for an additional Wakefield four-pointer quickly after, however the centre was compelled into contact by Eckersley as he dished the ball off for the end.
The sport’s definitive second got here within the sixty fifth minute when Discipline swooped on a knock-on from Mike McMeeken, who was inside barging distance of the tryline, permitting the full-back to race away within the different course to attain his fifteenth Tremendous League strive of the season.
Wigan Warriors: Discipline; Eckersley, Keighran, Wardle, Marshall; French, Smith; Havard, O’Neill, Thompson, McDermott, Partington, Ellis.
Interchanges: Mago, Kerr, Cartwright, O’Connor.
Wakefield Trinity: Jowitt; Myers, Scott, Corridor, Pratt; Sinfield, Trueman; McMeeken, Lipowicz, Storton, Rodwell, Smoothy, Lolesio.
Interchanges: Hamlin-Uele, Faatili, Smith, Guler.
Referee: Chris Kendall.
