Good point.

If that's true they will break 100. Flannery is so flat footed when defending at centre and with Soliola also prone to being stepped it wouldn't work.

Come on you Saints!!

Sia marked Shenton in the Exiles game. McBanana played shenton at left centre and Sia was on the right with Meli

Wilkin?

Yeah I realised that shortly after posting it, couldn't be bothered to edit.

I reckon the team will be:

Wellens, Makinson, Flannery, Meli, Foster, Gaskell, Lomax, Graham, Roby, LMS, Soliola, Wilkin, Puletua. Subs: Moore, Perry, Magennis, Eastmond

woops, next to sia.

I'd line up like this

1. Paul Wellens,
28. Thomas Makinson.
13. Chris Flannery,
5. Francis Meli,
22. Jamie Foster
20. Jonny Lomax,
25. Lee Gaskell,

8. Josh Perry,
9. James Roby
10. James Graham,
4. Sia Soliola,
12. Jon Wilkin,
11. Tony Puletua,

14. Scott Moore,
15. Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook,
7. Kyle Eastmond
21. Shaun Magennis,


To me we are still lacking another prop for rotation here. Playing with TP at loose may give Saints a strong pack to start with, but then when we start to rotate the props there is only 1 prop on the bench, meaning Graham and TP are having to play longer than needed.

Basically unless we beatup the other side when we start subbing players we are changing props for 2nd rowers or less. The prop at loose is an interesting tactic, but against sides that can't been blown apart, it would seam more reasonable to rotate the props like other teams do.

But Royce is Royce and will probably stick with it, hence naming TP at loose, although I would still like to see Wilkin there instead playing a traditional loose position, and let Moore and Soliola start in the 2nd row. leavingLMS and TP on the bench to rotate with Graham and Perry.

He started the season playing Wilkin at loose. Maybe it is just that he has spotted something in our young and inexperienced line up that meant Wilkin was needed elsewhere or to play another role? It's like he said in one interview that Flannery gives Roby a rest sometimes during matches (or did, back in the days before our injury crisis got ridiculous). I started to get confused so I didn't bother thinking about it too much!

Did you know that Wilkin made 60 tackles in the match against Wigan btw? I just read that today. 60 tackles! Bloody hell. The man is a machine!

But obviously that isn't relevant to the team for Warrington.

Yeh I think playing Wilkin at loose and Flannery in the 2nd row gave both players a new lease of life this year, but that seams to have fallen out of favour now.

But based on what I see on the pitch, Wilkin seems to be playing loose. He's all over the bloody place and he chimes in with his kicking game.

Maybe now that Flannery is back Simmons will revert to what appeared to be a successful set up. If he hasn't done already. (Would we really have noticed amidst that awful performance on Friday night?)