Lomax is comfortably a better player then McDonnell when both are fit. If he comes back anything like from his injuries he'll walk the fullback spot.

Would they start in the same team? (just curious)

As for Mossop, I wouldnt have him in the 17 at the moment, fit or not

I think that has been answered by Cherry_, saints have struggled in the halves for far too long, so Lomax at 6/7 with McDonnell at full back would not unbalance the team.

On your second point, we are all entitled to our opinion and I respect yours.

If Tomkins was playing I think we would have nicked it. As it is, I'm just not sure what we're going to hurt them with at this stage of the season, unless we pull some new tricks out of the bag.

Add to that our defence in the game last year was phenomenal, the best display of the year in that regard. We'll have to match that and then some as they now have a better surface to play on.

Would be great to win but can't see it and I'm afraid looking at it objectively all the signs point to a bad weekend for the Super League.

Looking forward to the games though and really hope I'm wrong.

Has their been any announcement of who is reffing your game? Silverwood is doing Leeds and Thaler the Saints game but yours is still TBC on the RFL site. Matt Cecchin from Australia is reserve ref on Friday and VR on Sunday and I can't imagine they've brought him over just for those roles so my guess would be that he'll ref your game providing he doesn't have to come off the bench as reserve ref on Friday night.

Yes it's him.

Wigan had a first team vs reserves training run with him reffing the game the other day to get used to his refereeing style.

Wane confirmed this on Wigan TV.

Only on rlfans , a multi page pi$$ing contest on who has got the most injuries

Good luck to all three English clubs this weekend , lets hope we all at least make it competitive .

Hello there. But OT here but I won 2 tickets for the game tomorrow but can't go. Seems a waste to let them go unused so if any of you guys want them please PM me and I'll give you the pickup details.

Think you guys have the best chance this weekend against Oz. No doubt you'll be chuckling all the way through the Cowboys annihilation of Leeds as much as you did last night in the Saints match. We (SL) are so far behind Oz it's embarrassing.

From @CherryWhiteZine on Twitter

"So Charnley out of tonight's game with facial injury. Gildart coming in to replace him."

That's no loss, Charnley couldn't tackle a hot dinner at the moment.

What's changed in the last 3 years, surely neither competition has change quality too much?
2012 beat pretty much a full many team
2013 lose by a couple of points to a full Melbourne team, in a game where we actually bombed a couple of tries and was missing Hardaker
2016 SL teams dont have a chance??????
Saints were beat before the whistle blew you could hear it in the stands that no one thought they were going to win
Us fans have to back our teams fully and try get some positive atmosphere going
If the players believe they can do it they can

I hope we really go for it tonight, full throttle aggression right in their faces. Niggling, wrestling, punch ups, the lot. Unsettle them early on and get the moaning barstewards rattled.

Standard Wane performance really

I don't mind if you win or lose...but if you lose make it a valiant loss going down at the last minute by a dg or penalty or the freakiest try known to rugby, don't embarrass a whole RL nation like Saints have done 2 years on the bounce.