Is Hohaia back for Wire?

I would not drop Hohaia in the starting 13, unless we were going for some revolution of Roby at halfback.

Id go with:

Lomax
Gardner
Percival
Jones
Meli
Hohaia
Wilkin
Laffranchi
Roby
Puletua
Soliola
Manu
Flanagan

LMS
Walmsley
Greenwood
Clough

Lomax
Gardner
Jones
Percival
Makinson
Gaskel
Wilkin
Lms
Hohia
Laffranchi
Sia
Meli
Manu

Roby
Tp
Flanagan
Clough

Give many free reign to choose his moments.
Bring Roby and tp on around 15-20 mins in to cause chaos.
Then bring on clough to do that spiny in the tackle thing.

Yes he is, but I'm more excited that Flanagan is back as well TBH.

If Lance is fit i'd be tempted to try him at full back, lets see what he's actually got, if anything.
But then i wouldnt want to take J-Lo out of FB as it seems a much better position for him
A conundrum

He's played at fullback for us before and he looks good there. He has bucketloads of pace plus a great step. He can catch a bomb too. I can't remember whether he had any last ditch defending to do at the time though.

I think he got his world cup winners medal there, defending against the Aussies, so he's clearly worth a shot there

Totally agree, not been given a chance in his world cup winning position.

Question is though, who is the better half back between him and Lomax? I'd be tempted to say Lance offers more control in the halves and leave Lomax to cause havoc from full back

Neither of them are half backs, this much is clear!

If NB is going to continue with Wilkin at #7, then it's got to be Lomax - would complement each other far better than Lance and Wilkin would.

Lomax has been poor for a season and a half at 7, he'd been worked out. Since his move to full back he's rediscovered some of his mojo and looked dangerous again and has made the team look more dangerous. Leave him there.

Spot on - Lomax is a dangerous runner with the ball - we've spent 18 months trying to get him to put others thru gaps . We did the same with Eastmond for a while.

Give Lomax space and he will cause problems - from FB he gets that space. He could play in the halves if we had a creative 6 or 13 - as Mcguire does at Leeds or Pryce was when we had Long/Scully.

If we had an experienced, crafty and consistent organiser to play alongside him then Lomax could be a very good half - alongside Lance, Gaskell (at this stage of his career at least) or Wilkin he just isn't. We need to leave Lomax at #1 or move him to #4 where his skill set is maximised in impact and try and beat whoever else we can find and stuff into the #6 and #7 shirts into some level of effectiveness. Moving Lomax back into the halves until we have a suitable partner for him would be an enormous mistake.

1 Lomax
2 Gardner
3 Percival
4 Turner
5 Meli
6 Hohaia
7 Wilkin
8 Walmsley
9 Roby
10 Puletua
11 Laffranchi
12 Manu
13 Flannagan

14 LMS
15 Soliola
16 Clough
17 Jones

As balanced a team I could think of with what we have . having said that ~I expect Sia to start instead of Walmsley and our bench to be weak again

quick question.
Jones vs Turner for centre?

If Percival continues to be an option at centre, then I think Turner could really offer us something on the wing. Couple this with the fact I like Meli in the centre, I definitely think Turner should be an option on the wing.

My heart says Jones, but Turner did score a peach of a centres try against Hull. I was impressed.

I'd like to think Turner would use his size on the wing close to the line, much like Meli does. Good shout there.

Competition from 3 actual centres for the centre spots at Saints? Is there something I'm missing here?

He's a good finisher, but, going back to the subject we've covered a lot, oiled be effective taking the ball out of our own half on the 1st 2nd tackles.

Whilst being oiled up probably would allow an easier bust of tackles, you'd just slip straight through, I'm not sure the RFL would agree to it's use.

iPad auto correct or Freudian slip - you decide.