Having a nose on Redvee and there is an O'Brien thread. One poster has mentioned that he won't play on Friday and that Cruz will play in the halfs. I hope not but looking at Rhys Evans' inclusion he could play at centre to free Grix for this. I hope O'Brien does play if he's fit.

I too would put Rhys on the wing instead of Riley, so my team would be ...........

Stefan Ratchford
Rhys Evans
Chris Bridge
Simon Grix
Joel Monaghan
Lee Briers
Gareth O’Brien
Chris Hill
Micky Higham
Adrian Morley
Trent Waterhouse
Ben Westwood
Ben Harrison

Garreth Carvell
Mike Cooper
Paul Wood
Michael Monaghan

Tyrone McCarthy
Chris Riley

I agree, no Riley for me

Stefan Ratchford
Chris Riley
Chris Bridge
Rhys Evans
Joel Monaghan
Lee Briers
Gareth O’Brien
Chris Hill
Micky Higham
Paul Wood
Trent Waterhouse
Ben Westwood
Simon Grix

Garreth Carvell
Ben Harrison
Adrian Morley
Michael Monaghan

Death or Glory, as Mr Strummer once opined.

Without doing Riley a disservice his positional play has been poor at times and efforts that he would have usually scored earlier this and last season he has dropped. I still think about the dropped effort v Hull in the Semi Final when I close my eyes to go to sleep. After the Grand Final defeat last year it took me till January to fully get over it. I never thought the Semi would still linger in my mind. "If if's and but's were beer and nuts we'd all have a happy Christmas"

Am I alone in not seeing what others appear to see in Rhys Evans?

Rhys has obviously been blighted with injuries this season. He's a solid young lad that if you remember when we wore that Brown kit v Leeds the other year kept Keith Senior in his pocket all night at Centre. He's got pace which we lack and he's strong in the tackle. My only concern is he is prone to the odd stint on the treatment table. Hope his injuries are behind him now.

Monster in defence and handy in attack. As soon as he can put together a decent spell without injury he'll be hard to miss out of the 17.

Again a good team, what a great bench.

Riley on the wing, Rhys to the centre, Tyke and Harrison to miss out. I think Saints will be playing a kick and chase game so I hope Ratchford is on form.

Nobody has mentioned Currie. Presumably they will be playing him in the U19's curtain raiser.