Would be conclusive proof that there is a god...

As I've just said on the Sts board, I still don't feel confident of a win on Saturday. I'm just hoping for the same grit, hard work and determination we've been seeing these past few weeks. I'm at least starting to feel confident that at the very least we will see that.

It shows the importance of Roby to Saints. I couldn't call either game just gone & I am struggling with this one. At the moment I will go with Bulls in the prediction league, if you win would it be curtains for Simmons?

How ironic that it could be the much maligned (by Saints fans) Potter that puts a final nail in the coffin of the current incumbent?

Think you'll find it's a 7 game losing streak unless draws are counted as losses now. Think it could be Sts worst run off results since SL started if it happens.

its great to actually be looking forward to going to odsal again last few years its been an absoloute chore! might not be expecting a win but if the boys put in the same effort as recent weeks we will run them close for sure. hopefully we will continue to get the ball out wide we looked dangerous on saturday and we have some real pace and size in the backs this year.

Very sadly, we won't have Soliola running anywhere for us this week.

I am hoping we come with the same attitude as the last few weeks, if so we should give Saints a good game. I fully expect we will be underdogs with the bookies, despite the fact it is a home tie. If Purtell and Elima are passed fit then that will be a huge boost, lose Sammut and we could struggle.

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whilst it makes our task on saturday a little easier cant say I'd want a opposition player missing a game for reasons like this. hope they catch the perpetrators and put them in a locked room with saints pack for ten minutes.

Agreed. Would have like to see Nas go up against him.

Hope Sammut doesnt get a ban. If he does, its got to be Addy though, not a fan of Heath at HB.

Again, I'm in agreement.


Addy showed some nice touches at 13 against HKR and he has a decent kicking game. Whilst Heath does have a great passing game and can run well from DH, he's not got the vision to play in the halves. I can see him making a cut out pass straight from the PTB, but not running in open play.

Maybe he might play Bateman there if Elima and Langley are fit. Although hopefully he can continue doing what hes doing on the flank?

Just posted same think on your Sykes thread.

I think one of Bateman or Addy should be at 13 then the other in the second row or at 6. Both have to play. Langley if fit obviously gets in the side for his work rate, but not sure if it should be at SR or 13.

Not convinced by Meli or Foster in defence. Not sure which side they are on, but I hope Lulia and Crookes try to expose this. Sooo excited by this partnership.

I'm anticpating a tonking on Saturday. We really are crap. You are looking a lot better (based on watching you against HKR). We hadn't adjusted to Jammer's loss and then Robes got himself injured and now Soliola has a bashed up face. In addition, we have a left partnership that can't defend to save their lives and halfbacks who panic at the first sign of winning a game. Lomax handed the ball to Hull five times. Five times!

Last year when we were struggling there was a reason: we had terrible injuries from early on, we were at Widnes, we had lost Cunningham, one halfback was injured and the other useless. This year though there are no excuses. We are just s h i t e!

So ... I can only see a big loss for us this weekend.

I hope you're wrong. I can't cope with another loss :/

Don't worry Cummings is sending special operative Silverwood to your rescue.

We are the team with the least number of penalties awarded in our favour so I very much doubt he will be sending anyone to our rescue!

Besides, even if he did, Gaskell will kick into a Bradford player's hands* or Lomax may pass to your fastest player**. And then the whole Saints team will amble back to their defensive line, backs to the ball, while whoever happens to be playing in your no.7 spot this week taps the penalty and races off towards the line without a Saints player even noticing!**



* true scenario from the Hudds game two weeks ago
**true scenarios from the Hull game on Friday night

We have the most given against us so it makes for an interesting situation.

I assume that is fact Mick? I was aware that we seemed to behind in the penalty count in almost every game this year. It's something we'll need to improve on to have the best possible chance of a play off spot.

Team I Would Put Out - providing Purtell and Elima are fit:

1. Kearney
2. Crookes
3. Lulia
4. Purtell
5. Ainscough - (although lacks physical presence of he has pace, I can see Foster/Makinson run ning riot against Pryce)
6. Addy
7. Jeffries
8. Hargreaves
9. Diskin
10. Manuokafoa
11. Elima
12. Whitehead
13. Bateman

14. L'Estrange
15. Burgess
16. Joseph
17. Walker

To be fair Lomax played with an arm injury the whole of the second half. As soon as he got the ball he passed it on to prevent being tackled. He should never have played the second half Royce should have put Wheeler on.

Foster couldn't run rings round Douglas Bader.

While obviously I sympathise with Lomax carrying an injury, he should have at least passed to a Saints player. I think he could have managed to do that even with an arm injury!