Personally i feel sorry for Ainscough, was playing well last year right up until injury just a shame he hasnt been given a shot this year to prove his worth,

and TBH if purtell is fit id have Ainy outside him just for his pace as he showed last season away at saints !!

To drop Pryce after a decent first showing wouldn't be very fair either.

Because you are a typical paranoid Bulls fan? Despite you being the RFL's darlings.

With it being the standout fixture of the weekends games, I predict it'll certainly live up to that billing in terms of closeness of score and competitive nature.

Both sides are heavily handicapped in the playing personal stakes which is great leverage for another Saturday night classic.

Extremely close to call with so many key players missing see Luke Gale for Bradford, James Roby for Saints.

Losing Sammut to the arbitrary panel is a massive blow in terms of our ability to turn those ordinary ball handling plays into something with a bit of razzle-dazzle.

The key area to where this game will be won IMO will be around the ruck area. This is where I feel St Helens will struggle on Saturday when trying to close down/stop L'Estrange and Diskin.

Who are two very competent natural leaders of attacking Rigby League from the ruck into the heart of the opposition defence.

I'll say Bradford 26-22 St Helens but I wouldn't be at all surprised to see St Helens leave with an equally most narrow of victories.

Safe journey coming over.

Good post mick-hopfully Diskin and L`Estrange will keep up the good work of the last few weeks-on the goal-kicking, did Ben Jefferies kick goals for wakey against us a couple of seasons ago at Odsal? If not Addy to loose-forward and goal-kicker.

For me, keep as little disruption as possible, presuming injuries are what we think.

Keep BK at 1, Addy to 6, Whitehead & Bateman in backrow, Elima(if fit) to 13 to hopefully hand out some pain to the St's HB's.

Bradford crocks : Scruton, Gale, Kear, Kopzcak, Langley (poss), Olbison, O'Brien, Sibbit, Sammut (Ban)

Saints crocks: Lomax, Soliola, Roby, LMS, Flannery, Clough

Both will have patched up teams. but I'm still expecting a close tough game thats good to watch.

We are more crocked then them. Nah nah nee nah nah.

Nothing about me is typical

If Elima and Purtell are fit it massively boosts our chances of a win.

Is Langley likely to be fit then? Need to get the injured Westerman out of my fantasy team and with you guaranteed a win I should get good points from Langley

Seriously though you'd have to play very badly not too win. If you put in the same performance you did against Warrington and Hull KR you'll get the 2 points

As it's on TV I expect it to be very close on the scoreboard up until 65 minutes though - they need to keep those armchair viewers tuning in

So from what I hear from Mick its likely to be :

Kearney
Pryce
Purtell
Lulia
Crookes
Sykes
Jeffries
Hargreaves
Diskin
Nas
Bateman
Whitehead
Addy

L'Estrange
Burgess
Elima
Walker/Joseph