At that time wasn’t it Powell in at Loose? Leuluai was at hooker with Sammut & Williams in the halves. It worked quite well too!

You could be right there actually looking at the highlights, cheers

I don’t think Sarg should come back in for either Hankinson or Hardaker. Both are playing well in their best position and Hank’s goal kicking is invaluable.

I like Sarginson, particularly his work rate but just because he had two good games at full back we are discussing displacing one of the best full backs in the league.

If he comes back in its on the wing for Marshall/Burgess.

So how would you cover the loss of SOL and Greenwood on top of Flower, TT and Hamlin? For me it’s Hankinson to cover second row (tough on him) and Sarge returns to centre.

Hank’s defence is superb and he certainly wouldn’t let anybody down in that department. I’ve suggested this a few times because of the number of times play breaks down when Isa is involved. He works his plums off but Isa bombs chance after chance on that edge. I’d definitely be happy to try a right edge shift of Williams, Sammut, Hankinson, Sarginson and Marshy. If Hardaker launches himself in at the right times it could be very fruitful.

Leave Hankinson at centre. Sarg makes the bench at best but is a waste of a spot really if he just there to cover injuries.

The backs are not the problem at the moment. We are going to be horribly light weight up front again without pushing Powell into 13 but it might have to happen.

Who would have thought that we stick 52 points up against HKR watched the matches previously against the Broncos and Hull thought it would have been much closer than the score that it was.

Clubb went off after 8 mins Naverette had an awesome game and played a lot of minutes helped by his 10 mins in the sin bin .Smithies gets better and better each game Farrell had a stormer in fact the whole pack out played HKR pack .

I agree. I think that having Smithies pack down at second row but having him, rather than Powell, filling in for SOL in the middle allowed Powell to continue his fine run of performances. The pack was immense but HKR played into our hands by being so one dimensional.

Tony Smith has apparently turned HKR around but nobody has mentioned our form.....

I thought we would struggle even before Clubb left the field, Navarette had a good game the sin bin was stupid one, the hit looked like payback for something.

An intriguing game in prospect this weekend. Big change in mindset amongst your fans on this board and clearly some better form.

My gut feel is that you've had a pretty kind fixture list, with the upturn in form coinciding with that before what was obviously a commanding performance against HKR but it could by my saints-specs again!

Will be very interesting to see how the form holds up on Friday - I worry that derbies are about who wants it more and Wigan are more desperate for the points, but then I thought that about going to Hull at the weekend TBH.

No argument with anything you’ve said here. I suspect a fairly comfortable Saints win though. Let’s face it, your pack will dominate against ours missing Flower, Clubb, Tautai, Hamlin, & Greenwood and O’Loughlin who all would have been in the 17 at the start of the season.

You will not miss TT. The rest you will - are they confirmed absentees? There is usually a long Wigan injury list in derby week, with SOL always on it then always playing!

Watched the highlights of your game at the weekend and good to see Liam Farrell seemingly hitting some form after a tough time with injuries.