I wonder if Davis will get the nod over Walker on the basis of defence?

He'll get the nod on the basis of a weaker pack bench between the 2.

Ashton

Charnley
Gelling
King
Lineham

Austin
Ratchford

Philbin
D. Clark
Cooper
Currie
Murdoch-Masila
J. Clark

Davis
Akauola
Burrell
Johnson/Robson


Danny Walker to miss out. Need some size out on the pitch in the middle and Davis can do a good job at DH if needed.

Saints were putting all their emphasis on going down the middle Vs Salford. They were defending extremely tight, their wingers defending on the 20m cross for the vast majority. If we're going to beat Saints we'll have to move them around the park and get them on the edges. This is the sort of game where we need to let the ball do the work for us.

Well that's us snookered then

I can't see us winning this one, then again we very rarely beat saints at home. If we can keep 13 on the pitch we have a chance. We should keep our indiscipline to eye gouging, there is no punishment for that.

I'd say it's a 50:50. We're without Coote, Makinson and Roby. You're missing Widdop and Hill.

I'd say we're a better side, but we're missing an extra player and you're at home so that balances things well.

There's going to be 3,000 from St Helens there, presume the game will be close to selling out which would be good for a Thursday game.

Pretty sure it will not sell out; its on Thursday and available to watch on TV I believe. Perhaps 14k ?

Saints are at peak minus long term injured. They've had to peak for the world club challenge....we rarely if ever beaten a team in it, ahead of the game from memory.

So history tells us a Saints win....if Wire win Thurs...Wire will win every piece of silverware on offer.

What does history tell us about the track record of duckie's predictions?

Pretty good last season.

Sad getting a weak excuse in early.

It's not an excuse, we're perfectly capable of beating Warrington with 6 or 7 missing if we play well. You're also capable of beating us if we were full strength if we don't.

I'm hopeful of a win, but wouldn't be a massive surprise if we didn't.

He's terrible anyway. What's up with him? I hadn't noticed he was out.