Jordan Thompson was not a regular last season . Both him and Michaels need to be moved on . Michaels only shone playing outside Fonua . Thompson is average at best .

Shaul
Rawsthorne
Tuimavave
Griffin
Michaels
Connor if fit/Washy
Kelly
Bowden
Houghton
Watts
Manu
Mini
Green/Washy

Thompson
Fash
Turgut
Washy/Green

.... only 25 games last season.

Talanoa will come in for Michaels.
Thompson is better starting at 13
Need another prop coming off the bench so better to have Green off the bench
Until we can get round to having Ellis and Mini coming off the bench to give us some impact i think we will continue to struggle.
It should be an eye opener for the club now to see just how weak our bench is recently

Didn't our bench win in the 5 consecutive games prior to Saints, including with depleted interchanges against Castleford?

Radford strongest bench last was Bowden, Pritchard, Green and Washy, so although missing Frank, the bench is pretty much the same.

Buggest difference is we have more injuries and suspensions this year, IMO our best starting line up is better than last year if we can get them all on the field and fully fit.

We need need an impact forward though, imagine how much better we would be with Naughton and BMM instead instead of Michaels and Thompson

Castleford was the only standout.Warrington ok
The matches against Catalan reserves,leigh and Widnes were all Uninspiring and the previous 2 games before this run we were thumped by both Leeds and Salford.
The only way we can have bench impact is when Ellis is fit and he and Mini come off the bench.
Whatever fans think of Pritchard we definately miss him off the bench this season

Leigh have a few players out, Hock, Higham, Higson, Naughton and Tonga

Maybe not the quality of ours but still leaves them a big short.

Most weeks we've had 20-21 to pick from , similar this week

So who's out?

fonua
ellis
taylor (anyone know what's wrong with him?)
sneyd

It's not ideal but we should still be beating leigh with what we have available. Hopefully a couple of those back for monday

Have little sympathy when you choose not to have any youth teams.

We both have players out, we use our youngsters whilst you choose to sign a big squad including average journey men.

Thompson has made 15 apps in 2017 compared to Ellis 8

We can't really take the moral high ground on that one Dave when we have a shared academy with a club in the lower leagues.

Better than none and we are going a great job bringing players through and giving them gametime through the reserves, so I think we can.