My first choice side when everyone is fit and healthy would be

Lomax
Makinson
Percival
Turner
Swift
Burns
Walsh
Walmsley
Roby
Amor
Greenwood
McCarthy-Scarsbrook
Wilkin

Bench

Fages
Vea
Tasi
Thompson

I know some of you will have your own prefences when it comes to team selection and that's normal. I do generally believe Cunningham has strengthened the squad well. The signing in particular of Theo Fages has impressed me and like KC says slashing Roby's minutes on the field is vital so we don't break the player and Fages can learn from Walsh for at least 12 months before he decides to go back to Australia. I don't know much about Peryoux so I really cant pass comment on him until I have seen him in the opening rounds of the season. Jack Owens will prove to be a great signing in my opinion, that lad has some serious potential and at a club like St Helens he can only improve and in time will become one of the best Full Backs in the league, I am genuinely confident of that.

My expectations are that we should be fighting on all fronts for the trophies on offer this year. We were desperately close to getting to two major finals last year. The Cup Semi-Final was of our own doing. We couldn't handle Leeds in the first 50 or so minutes and when we did start to play it was too late. The Semi-Final in the Super League we were truly outstanding from 1st minute to the 80th and one moment of complete brilliance from Kevin Sinfield took the game away from us and we all know what happened next. KC will be a better coach this year for last years experience, he will be more determined than ever to see us succeed this year and I believe with abit of luck, stay away from any serious injuries we could well do something special this year. We have a settled squad of players that will only improve, the vast majority of this squad has won a major trophy and knows how to win big games, In Cunningham and Longy we have two coaches that know how to win big trophies on the playing side and like I said before they will be better coaches from last years experience.

Lets hope for a great 2016

Foz

You could do worse than play Turner and Dawson on the wing

Big pack but also very mobile
Very young set of pacey backs for first match,average age 22.
Think Hull will come in under the radar even with Radford as the coach

Dont underrate Lee Radford, he's built the club up in all areas in his last 2 years. Only now are we beginning to see his side come together. He always comes across very well for me. Players love his honesty, no favourites, says it how it is. He was a rooky 2 years ago, I think he's about to lose that tag.

As with Cunningham its never easy and quite rare for a rooky coach to hit the ground running. But he did well for you in the final analysis and this year he can only get better.

Over on our forum there are still a number who wanted a proven coach, rather than a Super League rooky and they're still finding it hard to accept Lee. But the majority are with him now i believe, the team is definitely with him and we've all got our fingers crossed there at last will be some good times returning.

If we can compete consistently throughout each game for once, well be in the shake up this year.
I don't think Frank the Tank will be letting anyone clock off early.

I like Radford and I like his honesty but I question if he is smart enough .

There's still a big question mark over Radford, but he does appear to learn and to change things if they're not right.

2015 was a weird year for us. We had a pretty decent defence, bar a couple of halves of rugby where we went to sleep. With the ball we were pretty good too;
- 2nd for Tackle Busts (Leeds 1st)
- 2nd for Meters (Leeds 1st)
- 3rd for Average Gain (Wolves 1st, Saints 2nd)
- 3rd for Clean Breaks (Leeds 1st, Wigan 2nd)
- 4th for Offloads (Leeds 1st, Catalans 2nd, Wigan 3rd)

The problem for us last year wasn't getting into the oppositions 20, it was converting that pressure into tries. We're going into 2016 with a settled (and fit) halfback partnership for the first time in years, Houghton is at the top of his game, Shaul at fullback instead of Rankin which should play to Shaul's supporting game running off Pritchard etc, and two centres in Logan & Tuimavave with skill and guile (instead of Yeaman and Sa who had none of that).

Hopefully, that'll bode well for a decent season. We're just hoping for some decent rugby and to be in the mix for a top four spot up until the final rounds.