Standoff. Wellens is fullback. Howarth hooker.

I wotldnt let Nathan Ashe play u19s, never mind first team. He's rubbish.

Here's the team, as per Saints on Twitter:

1. Paul Wellens; 2. Ade Gardner; 3. Jordan Turner, 30. Mark Percival, 21. Tommy Makinson; 23. Nathan Ashe, 12. Jon Wilkin; 8. Josh Perry, 36. Stuart Howarth, 33. Luke Thompson, 4. Sia Soliola, 13. Willie Manu, 10. Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook.
Subs: 11. Tony Puletua, 14. Anthony Laffranchi, 19. Josh Jones, 25. Alex Walmsley.

Seems like Brown's ignored you, Pete, and put Ashe in at 6.

The only place Wello can play is fullback so it makes sense to have him back there even though I didn't ever want to see him back there.

Incidentally, our under 19s beat Leeds 24-26.

Leeds:

1. Zak Hardaker; 25. Joe Vickery, 3. Kallum Watkins, 4. Joel Moon, 5. Ryan Hall; 13. Kevin Sinfield, 6. Danny McGuire; 8. Kylie Leuluai, 7. Rob Burrow, 16. Ryan Bailey, 11. Jamie Jones-Buchanan, 15. Brett Delaney, 18. Chris Clarkson,
Subs: 17. Ian Kirke, 19. Mitch Achurch, 21. Richard Moore, 26. Liam Sutcliffe.

We need to target Vickery in my opinion, he's been useless whenever I've seen him this year.

Leeds backline is is frightening compared to ours

That's a very good result. Leeds first defeat of the season.

Is Danny Yates back playing yet?

Yes. He played.

Our bench looks pretty strong with Walmsley, Jones, Laffranchi and TP.

If we look at the players we have out (roby, lomax, wheeler, hohaia, Meli, walker) shows we've a pretty decent 17 when all fit.

Well, what a start..

Fairly predictable I'd have thought. We are rubbish really. Hopefully we will get less rubbish as the match goes on but I don't hold out much hope.

And Howarth is getting on my nerves. Neither he nor Ashe are showing very willing in defence.

Both poor players. As is Wellens with ball in hand.

We are not that much weaker on paper than we were for the same fixture last year. Something has gone out of the window this year, and it smells like team spirit.