In recent weeks we've seen Morley, Briers and Harrison rested so Smithy is not afraid to rest anyone. With the semi round the corner, with it being all Catalan are playing for, I worry they will try to injure our key players on Saturday. Any thoughts as to if we should rest anyone in light of this?

if anyone deserves a rest its westwood

I suppose if anyone needs to be rested, probably the next in line after Morley etc would be Monaghan.

No - Catalans won at Saints 2 weeks ago & historically have beaten teams that took them too lightly (Wigan on at least 2 occassions). We should play strongest possible side and look to get a psychological advantage before the semi.

Skents asked him about this. I'd guess from his answer that someone will be "rested". However, it's more with a view to getting the best out of players over the rest of the season and nothing to do with the semi final specifically. We have a maximum of 11 games left....

ive already said this somewhere,id like to see mona's and westwood rested,just my opinion. them to rested for saints game would be a big boost.

Westwood and Monas both been outstanding in recent weeks!

The result this weekend will have nothing to do with the Semi.

rlLouis and Wood outrl

So I doubt Westwood will be rested.

Lets hope its nothing serious and hope that they are just being 'rested'.

If Evans plays and without those two, there is still a remarkably strong team....

Riley, Evans, King, Atkins, Hicks, Briers, Myler, Morley, Monas, Carvell, Westwood, Solomona, Grix; Clarke, Vinnie, Harrison, Cooper.

No arguments about that squad. Only slight worry is if Mathers is dropped it may hammer his confidence for next few important weeks although thats if he returns to the side?

Hopefully they just have minor knocks and Smith wont risk them at this stage of the season.

I was just trying to fit Evans in. Could "rest" Riley instead.