In league express he says he will be available for semi-finals if picked.

think he may be rested for the final me i would play him in a heartbeat but imagine a fresh westwood with 6 weeks of tackling pented up inside him tearing it up in the final mwahaha ha ha

Who would you drop? I'm scratching my head & the only name I can come up with is Riley

Drop Cooper to the bench and keep Bridge at 13. I think a bench of Wood, Cooper, harrison & Solomona should have enough back up power. If one of the backs is injured, move Bridge back into the back line.

Hodgeson

Riley
Atkins
King
Monas

Briers
Myler

Moz
Monas
Carvell
westwood
Anderson
Bridge

Harrison
Cooper/Grix
solomona
Wood

Quite remarkable the lack of injuries down Winwick Road. Anyone would think you were destined to finally do it.

We have to [ireach[/i the final first. If he's fit for the semi then he should play.

Great conditioners doing their jobs well,it all looked a different story 7 months ago 1st game of the season 5 bodies trying to get on the treatment table at the same time..

Yeah, we've had no injuries this year!
We only lost 5 in one game, and lost some of our most influential players for big chunks of the season.

Quelle surprise, Saddened playing the injury card. Whodavthunkit.

You've not had a bad time with injuries. Going into the game before the Grand Final with so few missing is quite something. When we've had a good 6 or 7 missing every week for a whole season I think I'm entitled to remark on your relative fitness.

And I'm not a millionaire and I haveb't received the nobel peace prize

!!! Oh guess what! I'm not qualified; just like the sts conditioners! No surprises.

I know you're trolling but if you employ shoddy conditioners (too many muscle injuries) and broken bisuits (leon pryve and biscuit wheeler) don't be surprised they don't make it in the long haul!

Warrington have had worse luck than sts in terms of injury, sts have just been incompetent. Don't be too disheartened though many teams on the decline struggle to attract top talent. It's okay try again in a decade or so

To be fair, they've had to play Wigan five times. Joint injuries pretty much inevitable.

Hmmm and eye injuries, dob't forget!

have missed watching westwoods no-nonesense performances! would have been a shame if after the year he's had he had to miss what the club could possibly achieve!

Personally i wouldn't change a thing, bringing back a player that won't be upto speed for a while could have a detrimental effect on the side. It was quite a bad injury that Ben Westwood suffered, at least while Moz was injured he could keep up his running and fitness.

Look at the results we have had since the Wakefield game which i think was the game that Ben Westwood suffered his injury, we have beaten Catalan away and thumped Wigan, Hull and Huddersfield.

Were obviously a better side with a fully fit Ben Westwood but how long is it going to take before he regains full match fitness ? Its a tough one for Tony Smith, does he keep the faith with the current starting 13 or does he try to accomodate a player coming back from injury that won't be fully upto match speed or fitness yet.

I'd start him from the bench and see how it goes, he can gradually build up his fitness that way and it will tell us if he's fully recovered from his injury.

We've not been too brilliant as far as injuries go this year and have had a fair few ... Last season was the real freak season re: relative lack of injuries, it was quite unbelievable in fact. There was a good story on the Warrington Guardian last year actually on the injury situation and how it had been improved, let me see if I can find it.

Here we are www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/wol ... r_crashes/

Here we are www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/wol ... r_crashes/

Sorry but if we are at full strength Riley unfortunately doesn't get in any first choice 17 Bridge is best at centre not in the pack Grix at 13 if we are at full strength it's harsh on Riley but unless theirs injury to Hodgeson or either winger he won't get in IMO !

I'd still go with Grix at 13 but Bridge certainly gives us a different dimension.

Remember 2008 or 09? At one stage that season we had 10 injured first team players! We ended up in tenth. You just have to deal with it. Forunately for Saints, you have some fantastic players in reserve. We might not have seen some of them had everyone been fit. We had Kevin Penny in reserve for us. He's not quite Lomax standard is he?

Kevin Penny was the greatest Wire player ever!

That was in the days before Chris Baron

Saddened, the difference is that Smith won't play injured players. Look at the number of times that Saints have brought people back into the side and they've broken down.

What he said !!

Hodgeson

King
Atkins
Bridge
Monas

Briers
Myler

Moz
Monas
Carvell
Westwood
Anderson
Grix

Harrison
Cooper/Clarke
Solomona
Wood/Clarke

I think, fully fit, the starting 13 almost picks itself - it's just the bench - do you have a replacement hooker on there - I think Tony would rather have one there!

bennie_westwood Bennie Westwood
right guys bennie is back and now wondering which player to take out in trainin to get back a spot any ideas @briers6 @TykeMc @ryanatkins85

You at least have to name him in the 19 man and go from there you would think that wood and westwood get in the 19 ahead of higham/clarke and mitchell
You would think he has a chance of making the bench i think you can't drop cooper at the moment I think if we are at full strength coops has good chance of starting at 13

Hodgson
J.Monas
Bridge
Atkins
King
Briers
Myler
Morley
M.Monas
Carvell
Anderson
Westwood
Cooper

Grix
Wood
Solomona
Clarke/Harrison