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Quote: who needs flankers? "You win. Millward has backed us to win and his prediciton record is awful!'"

Chris Irvine of the Times has also backed you to win. I would imagine everyone is backing you to win!
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Josh Jones as never played Stand Off. I can assure you about that! Trust me.
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Quote: Obsessive Saint "Josh Jones as never played Stand Off. I can assure you about that! Trust me.'"

Well, I copied and pasted the piece from the Saints website which specifically includes stand off in the list of positions he has played. No offence, like, but I would believe the Saints website on this occasion since they have been training him for a few years now.
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Quote: The Chair Maker "Your all forgetting that Cas will be in exactly the same boat, and infact will have it tougher, as they will have a long tiring coach journey prior to the game and will be facing an hostile away crowd.

I personally expect Royce to rotate some of the forwards. For example i see no reason why the likes of Hale and Dixon and Ashurst cant form the starting backrow. Two of these three players will be fresh.
I would look to rotate the props heavily, so would start with Graham and LMS but have TP and Mcgennis on the bench.

The backs shouldnt really be that beaten up compared to the forwards, so they should be able to handle another 80 minute slot. Though i must say I suspect Jonny Lomax may get rotated at some point.


Overall i think the team could look something like the following

Makinson
Gardner
Shenton
Meli
Foster
Moore
Lomax
Graham
Roby
LMS
Hale
Ashurst
Dixon

bench

I totally agree with all of this. Its more about fatigue management more than anything else. Great Post.
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You can't rotate the squad at this stage if there are no senior players to bring in. Losing a game on purpose would just be a waste, given the run we've got where wins are going to become a rare thing one would think.

This mess just highlights how poor the recruitment policy is at Saints. Sure it's nice to have local kids when the squad is healthy, but when it's not there is no papering over the cracks like other SL clubs can, ours are laid open and everything crumbles rather quickly.
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Quote: Saddened! "This mess just highlights how poor the recruitment policy is at Saints. Sure it's nice to have local kids when the squad is healthy, but when it's not there is no papering over the cracks like other SL clubs can, ours are laid open and everything crumbles rather quickly.'"

I don't think the problem lies in local kids but in the number of players we dispatched at the end of last season. They might have all wanted to leave for all I know but at the time it appeared to be reckless and I think that is proving the case now.

Various websites are saying that Jon Wilkin is going to partner Lomax in the halves, with Andrew Dixon filling in for Wilkin. I guess we have got to that point when poor old Wilkin has to do a job he has expressly said he doesn't feel he is best suited to doing!
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But they'll still be wearing Saints colours, so they still merit some support. icon_biggrin.gif
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Quote: SaintsFan "Well, I copied and pasted the piece from the Saints website which specifically includes stand off in the list of positions he has played. No offence, like, but I would believe the Saints website on this occasion since they have been training him for a few years now.'"


You really think it's Eamonn writing the squad info? It's sone guy with alot time on his hands who obviously as wrote down the wrong info. I've Bern watching Josh since the age of 15 for England and St Helend and I can assure you he as never played Stand off. The lad also played centre for Chorley before moving to Blackbrook, where funnily enough he also played centre.

For England U15 and U16 guess where he played? Centre. For Saints U18 guess where he plays? Centre. He as filled in on the wing for the U20's so I guess they've got summat right.
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Quote: Obsessive Saint "You really think it's Eamonn writing the squad info? '"

No. I assume the people writing the squad info are given the squad info by people who train the squad. Why should I assume it's Eamonn? 2.31298828125:10
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