I think it will be a really close game with us sneaking it with a Briers drop goal with twenty seconds to go.

TANCW, you are the most pesimistic (sp) man since Malcom Muggeridge, and I claim my £5

Personally i'd drop Mathers, he's making far too many errors of late, and i think Saints will bomb him at every opportunity, just like they did at Knowsley road.

Nearly all bases covered there then

Drop Mathers, tell clarke we are playing at Wilderspool, start with 12 players and 3 on the bench...and keep Solomona on the bench until the proverbial really does hit the fan.

Lets face it, they can't play as bad as last week - can they?

Mathers
Hicks
King
Atkins
Riley
Briers
Myler
Morley
Monaghan
Carvell
L.Anderson
Westwood
Harrison

Clarke/Vinnie
Wood
Solomona
Grix/Vinnie

We need to target there young lads like Maggennis, Ashurst and Dixon just as we did at Wigan and smash the sh*t out of them

We need to take out the main players like we did tried to at Wigan like Tomkins not the little ones. Take one of Pryce, Graham and KC early on.

Strong Wire side but I agree that Mathers will be bombed - I hope they've worked on that in the week and got the necessary cover in place around him.

Fully agree that Saints always 'up their game' against us and regardless of who's there they are capable of causing problems.

Plan should be to keep their big name players quiet and smash the younger lads.

Grix at 13 and Carvell on the bench with either Clarke or Vinnie to miss out along with Mitchell.

And it might be wet again....just like at Knowsley Road!

IMHO the issue here would be that Riley isn't really any better under the high ball (and his positional play at full back isn't any better either), and if we put Hicks there we lose his attacking threat.

You'll find them very resilient. They may be young but they've played against Leeds and Wigan, and I think Dixon played against you at KR. Ashurst and Dixon in particular have had almost a full season at first grade this year, with plenty of experience last season as well. They aren't pushovers at all. Nor is Emmitt if he plays. And Magennis is not afraid to tackle or take a tackle. And young Foster is very, very capable of catching a bomb.

I'd go with the plan to disrupt our experienced players. Where Gardner and Meli are concerned that is easy: just bomb them. They can't catch a cold, either of them! But that's a tactic that all teams have known about for years.

Ashurst and dixon are preety experienced now, just keep cunningham out the game and bomb gardner like an above poster said he could not catch a cold