No Widdop but Daz Clark back

Matty Ashton, Blake Austin, Keanan Brand, Josh Charnley, Daryl Clark, Jason Clark, Mike Cooper, Ben Currie, Matt Davis, Anthony Gelling, Chris Hill, Jack Hughes, Toby King, Leilani Latu, Jake Mamo, Ben Murdoch-Masila, Declan Patton, Joe Philbin, Stefan Ratchford, Ellis Robson, Danny Walker

So

Ashton

Mamo
King
Gelling
Charnley

Austin
Ratchford

Hill
Clark
Cooper
Currie
BMM
Hughes

Philbin
Latu
Clark
Walker / Davis

This, except starting with J.Clark, and BMM on the bench.

So, where is Widdop?

Looks good to me. We need our big units on from the start to.keep Walmsley on a tight rein - once he goes off a big part of Saints go forward goes with him.

More than likely to be not recovered from Covid.
That's the thing about this horrible virus - it can affect anybody to any extent.

I just hope he recovers to 100% quickly for his (and his familys) sake.
RL comes 2nd.

Think we need Ratch at FB Ashton Wing. Not sure if Patton good enough for HB in important game as this but who else?

Patton on the bench?

Don't like Mamo on the wing - prefer Toby there because of his high ball ability.
Can't see Ratch starting anywhere other than in the halves for the good of the team, with Ashton at full back.

Bench - Philbin, BMM then 2 from Latu, Davis, Walker and Patton.

It's tough on the 2 that miss out because none of them have had bad games recently.
Latu possibly the least effective but he is a big unit so if SP wants it to be played in the forwards I guess he'd chose him
All of the other 3 can play at hooker as back up to Daz, but Davis has more size and more of a 2nd row than the others

Not keen on Ratchford at halfback, not keen on Mamo on the wing, but Patton as starting halfback isn't the answer in such a big game.

He started HB at Wembley

True, over twelve months ago. He wasn't in the starting line up last week, and is unlikely to start in our next game.

They'll beat us. They're due a win against us in a knock out game. We've been doing them over since 2012.