Nicky,
How do you guys rate Tierney? He showed he can finish well and is stronger than he looks
I'm relieved it's not Manfredi against Russell.
Same goes for the Lineham match up

Bailey & Flower on the pitch could lead to some colourful entertainment.

Yeah thinking this myself

Personally my heart is in my mouth whenever the ball goes near him but maybe that's a bit harsh. He has errors in him and physically isn't quite up to the task IMO.

I say all that yet since he had a stinker at Hull four weeks back he's been very good. He took his first try brilliantly against Hull and he is a good broken field runner. If I was Tony Smith though he'd be my biggest target to be truthful.

He's certainly not in his dad's class (but then apart from 7 or 8 in the last 100 years who is).

They do load up blind/open side of the play the ball when attacking from 30m out and we will need to number up correctly. Cost us at least one try in the recent games. The way we defend also makes us vulnerable to a ball that's shipped wide quickly and early in the count.

I hope Bailey plays as we will need his grunt. Philbin just won't do it.

I'm not sure we need to be as aggressive as them, we rely a bit more on agility and footwork at the line in attack, and good early set line speed.

The most important aspect for us is finishing on a kick, strong chase and reducing meters on the first 3 tackles.

This is what got away from us against Wigan recently, the Charnley try to make it 28-18 of a Sarginson 1st tackle bust and offload to FPN, and the Tierney try to make it 28 all off a break on kick return by Charnley if I remember correctly.

Lock them up down the top end of the field and make them use a clearance kick and we have a decent chance

Sandow should be no where near the team on Saturday. After 6 weeks he'll be rusty and not match fit and if we're honest he's last good game was Wigan. And even then he only lasted 25 mins. I'd stick with the team that saints and I believe that's the team which end the song "it's always our year"

Personally I wouldn't risk Sandow even on the bench. He won't be match fit, he isn't great defensively at the best of times, but what do I know...I didn't think we would beat Hull!

Can anyone confirm what grade Sandow MCL strain is?
Grade 1 recovery is 6 weeks
Grades 2 & 3 are 8--12 weeks so looking at this even if his injury is a mild one he possibly can't be fit for such a huge occasion
Best case scenario put him on the bench as a partially fit Sandow can still do damage especially later in the game when big forwards are tired
So I'm going with
Ratchford
Lineham
Evans Atkins
Russell
Gidley Patton
Hill Clarke Simms
Hughes Wilde
Westerman
King
King
Bailey
Sandow

From memory its a grade 2.

Grade 2

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