Quote: NickyKiss "Woods played pretty well but in fairness to Powell I thought he was ok at Saints. He did a great job down our right in bottling Barba up and he really got stuck in to him. He’s never going to be more then a stop gap option for this season imo but Powell was apparantly superb the week before against Huddersfield (I was away) so I wouldn’t write him out.
Maybe Escare to get a start against his old club with Powell to have a week on the bench to cover the halves and Leuluai.'"
If I were going to have Powell covering the hooker I’d probably start him at 9 and have Ganson on the bench leaving TL out. I think Woods had a pretty tough game v Saints and in hindsight it maybe wasn’t the game to play him in. I’d like to see how him and Williams go together in the halves for a sustained period - it may even change my mind on putting Tomkins there!
I don’t think we’ll go full strength v Catalans but I’d still expect us to win by 16-24 points.