Easier to play Eastmond in the away game, based on the amount of stick he is copping at home. But then again this is no run of the mill away game.

I've been trying to convince myself that its just 2 points, but i cant. THE derby is much more than that

Agree 100%

Well, we have already come back to draw against one of the 'top teams'! We lost to Wire, granted, but I for one was relieved we did. We can now just view that as another fixture rather than the big hyped up hoodoo thing it had become. With our depleted resources, though, I don't hold out much hope for us. I think we could match them with a team just missing one or two (assuming they weren't all our halfbacks!) but not with eight missing as seems likely. We don't have the depth of squad even of last season and so a high number of injuries over a significant period this season will seriously hamper our ambitions IMO.

Our home form sucks, I think it's lost 6 of the last 8, here's hoping we turn it around on Friday but I'm not holding my breath. I wish we were at your place!

We don't have a place

With us just having won just 4 of 15 Easter Super League derbies against St Helens (1998, 2003, 2005, 2010) Its about time we started to pull this poor record back.

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sorry, couldnt help it!

Oh yes.

It's derby week, bring it on.

Yep, although you'd HOPE the fans would lay off considering we're playing Wigan. 20,000 Wiganers will be booing our lads, we don't need another 5,000 Saints fans doing it aswell.

I'm hoping Clough, Meli and Graham will be ok to play (and maybe Perry). Meli to Centre and Wheeler to 6 would solve the problem and we wouldn't have to worry about Eastmond playing and this potential issue.

No case to answer, free to play.

I think that's the issue.