yes he looked decent enough but we didnt see much of him here, down the pecking order, brown obviously rates him as he brought him here then taken him again

To be fair you had a pretty good threequarter line last year, so he would have struggled for game time anyway, barring injuries.

Amor and Walmesley back for Saints, should be a great forwards battle

Looking forward to this one, hopefully you'll have a good crack at them. However:

Giants 11/8 underdogs for the win , saints odds on

When are squad announcements due on this one??

Friday?

Yes, world class.

I rate Shaun Lunt as 2nd best hooker in the English game when fully fit. And Luke Robinson is lethal when used as an interchange hooker. Are each of those players world class in those positions, I'm not sure, but I think if Lunt were given the opportunity on the international stage he would thrive, but as a combo then yeah, I think they are potentially a world class combo.

Yep. Saints squad has now been announced. Includes all the injured except Percival and of course Wilkin is still banned.

I just can't see how Walsh can be fit to play given his original prognosis of 4 to 6 weeks? I hope he IS fit, and is not being rushed back because it's a Cup game.

If Walsh isn't fully fit and he plays then Anderson has to tell our big guys to run at him, he's a danger and if we can wear him out by making him defend rather than attack that has to be a key for me.

He would be defending on the wing if he's carrying a knock, so your big men would have some lateral running to do in order to achieve that.

...any of our men then

Alternately well leave him in the sidelines while defending and he can run on when we have the ball on the last to do the kicking, American football style

Even better jerry can run at him then!!!

I think it's quite likely the original prognosis was exaggerated

I do hope they target Walsh. Because Roby and Lomax and Lance will have a field day.

I'd hope as a team we'd be a bit more tactically astute than "Let's run our big guys at their halfback cos he might be a bit injured." I'd rather we ran hard at Walmsley and Amor and try to wear them down a bit so they don't run through us like Warrington did for most of the second half last sunday.

i would like to see us tackle amor and walmsley so they don't tear us a new un!
i would also like to see us close walsh/lomax/roby/wilkin etc down so that reduces their options in attack
i would also like to see us improve 100% from what we have seen for most of the first 7 games!


failing that, a dodgy win will suffice

wardle back

only other week was out for 4/6 weeks

so we have one centre back at least and he normally does a job on soliola.

wardle and murphy the centres i would think.

looking forward to the game, underdogs tag seemed to suit us well last season

Does a job on Soliola???

yes, everytime ive seen them come up against each other wardle has come out on top, really gets stuck into him and smashed him a few times!

But Sia does not play centre!!

You not seen much of crabtree this year?

I think he means Meli. It is a hair thing

i know... but they play the same side of the field and wardle comes in alot for big hits...

no not meli, soliola.