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For those moaning, ask yourselves a question - your team is top of the league, being asked to play 3 games in 8 days. You have a cup semi final the week after the third game. Would you be wanting your coach to rest the majority of the semi final squad for the 3rd game, regardless of the opposition, or would you want to flog your first choice players and risk injury/fatigue potentially costing you a cup final spot? I guarantee most would rest their first choice players. Saints have earned the right to do as they please in my opinion. Plus, anyone thinking it’s gonna be an easy game for us needs to think again. Young, fresh legs, from the best side in Superleague by a mile (and have been for the last few years) against a, potentially, fatigued side that couldn’t hold the ball on Monday if their life depended on it? I’m hopeful we’ll get the points but it’s gonna be far from easy. There’s probably a fair number of future England international players that we’ll see at our place tomorrow.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.
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It's a squad game, Saints have got themselves in a position to be able to utilise that squad as Woolf obviously thinks this is giving them the maximum opportunity to do the treble.
He's also building for the future by giving the younger players a look at what a first team game day looks like whilst he also gets the opportunity to see where they are with their development.
Some of them might have absolute stormers of a game which in turn makes the current incumbents of that position have a bit of a think about their own motivation.
I'd love my club to be in that position.
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For sale thirty brand new suits, made in 2007 never been worn but rather tear stained.
Apply to Wigan warriors rented accommodation.
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30 nil will get you a win
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| Quote: Karen "I agree, at the end of the day, this is a squad game and flogging your first fit 17 when you have other players available is ridiculous. The great team of Manchester Utd in the late 90s chopped and changed between the competitions to keep legs fresh. You have a squad, use them!'"
Ha ha, the great m/u kept legs fresh. I could play soccer 7 days a week and twice on Sunday. |
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| Quote: TheWarringtonWolve69 "The only world class coach in SL is protecting his players from an absolutely shocking decision from some nobodies who run SL who have no care for player welfare. As for a virtual academy side (sic) pretty much most of them are in the first team squad
Don’t blame Saints for having such a stacked first team squad'"
I guess we'll see how "stacked" it is after your game at Cas ?? |
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I think it is a weaker side than it would have been, but with quite a few already injured there is little room to rotate.
Grace injured
Hopoate injured
Dodds injured
MATA’UTIA injuried
Sironen banned
Hurrell banned
Knowles banned or injured
Roby getting his OAP bus pass
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The new young dynasty of super saints is coming to a ground near you.
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| Quote: Saddened! "Highly rated Pemberton isn't he? Who would you play in the halves then, presumably you're moving Lussick to 9?'"
He struggles with physicality at times so I suppose that’s why he is on the bench. Saints have 4 academy lads making their debut hopefully they do less minutes tonight.
We might see Bell at stand off and Moss at scrum half who played in our friendly against Leigh I think.
Not sure who’s full back probably Hill with Bennison going to centre. |
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