I see no reason to be a panic monkey about the 19 named. There is plenty in that team good enough to take on the goons. The back to me seem far better for Saints.

The young lads certainly manned up against Leeds, no reason why with less of them against a lesser team than Leeds they should not do it again.

A decent team, hopefully a decent outcome.

I see no reason to change my prediction of Saints 30 Wigan 14.

Wigan have not been blowing teams away. Just like Cas we will be a test for them.

wonder what the issue is with swift? unless its just squad rotation over easter

I'd doubt it's rotation. We gotta pick one game and go for it.

I would go:

Lomax
Makinson
Turner
Jones
Dawson
Lance
Walsh
Walmsley
Roby
Richards
Wilkin
Flanagan
Sia

Mose
Wellens
LMS
Greenwood

That should be more than capable of getting the 2 pts. Need to be defensively sound as we were at wire away and Leeds at home!

Where is this smugness coming from? A team missing four or five should be good enough to beat Wigan because we're so good?

It's the derby FFS. Wigan have won derbies with us at full strength and them decimated with injuries and that's with us having a better side than we've got now.

Who plays and who plays where doesn't mean a thing on Friday. It's 90% mentality and 10% ability. Kong will have whipped them up into their usual rabid frenzy and we've got to match that before the supposed superior ability becomes even slightly relevant.