dont expect to hear good news later today about his ankle...but heres hoping

you would have to go a long long way back to find out when cudjoe missed a game through injury...he last missed a game just to be rested last season when we played the youngsters at bradford.

before that i think he had the longest run of games in super league

Hope to see a good crowd on sunday infront of the BBC.... club certainly pushing it with the cheap tickets and saints will bring a good 3k... shame we are having a poor start to the season.

line up id go for..

Grix
Mcgillvary
Murphy (harsh being left out in the first place and solid defender like cudjoe)
Connor (if saints can play matt dawson then surely we can throw our youngster in too)
Broughton

lunt
brough
robinson

Kopczak
Crabtree
Ferres
Lawrence
Chan

bench-
Kaufusi (went well last week from the bench)
Faiumu (playing very well at prop)
Taai (impact from the bench)
Wood


one thing saints will be good at is defence coached under nathan brown so we need to add something extra to the attack and this is where bailey could come in but i just cant put him ahead of lawrence.

maybe switch robinson to hooker when lunt comes off and bring bailey on instead of wood, this could work well

Dawson has given a fair showing so far. Looks quite solid in defense.

Only 2 matches so far though.

ticket sales poor according to club,less than 5,000 sold!

like what I said in Warrington game topic !

Its not just LOST points!
Its lost support and lost revenue also!
Some aspects can be retrieved a lot easier than others!

(and yes -I Know this is slightly different as its the CUP --but it still carries on AFTER!)

yes he looked decent enough but we didnt see much of him here, down the pecking order, brown obviously rates him as he brought him here then taken him again

To be fair you had a pretty good threequarter line last year, so he would have struggled for game time anyway, barring injuries.

Amor and Walmesley back for Saints, should be a great forwards battle

Looking forward to this one, hopefully you'll have a good crack at them. However

Giants 11/8 underdogs for the win , saints odds on

When are squad announcements due on this one??

Friday?

Yep. Saints squad has now been announced. Includes all the injured except Percival and of course Wilkin is still banned.

I just can't see how Walsh can be fit to play given his original prognosis of 4 to 6 weeks? I hope he IS fit, and is not being rushed back because it's a Cup game.

If Walsh isn't fully fit and he plays then Anderson has to tell our big guys to run at him, he's a danger and if we can wear him out by making him defend rather than attack that has to be a key for me.

He would be defending on the wing if he's carrying a knock, so your big men would have some lateral running to do in order to achieve that.