Gonna presume ratch Hughes and charnley are fit

Ratch

Lineman
Goodwin
King
Charnley

Austin / currie
Patton

Hill
Clarke
Cooper
Hughes
Currie / Clarke j
Sita

Bmm
Philbin
Clark j / davies
Westwood

No backs on bench as enough utility in the team to shuffle

Hughes and currie can play centre
Goodwin can play wing
Charnley or lineham can slot at fb
Davies and Clark j can play hooker

Charnley and Hughes fit...Austin wont make it. Halve options will be intresting. I think youll see Currie potentially named there with J. Clark starting, giving us an extra forward.

Other option is Harvey but heard he wont make the 17.

How much would I win for Dec as Lance Todd winner?

That's a big blow.

If Saints don't beat us they'll never win it again.

More chance of Westwood winning it.

Dec 16/1 to win lance Todd so if you bet £10 you lose £10

i did wonder who would be first!

To be fair to him, I have had no issue with Patton he has done what is required not flash but not bad either

I think he has been playing how he's been told to play by Pricey

1. Ratchford
2. Lineham
3. Goodwin
4. King
5. Charnley
6. Austin
7. Patton
8. Hill
9. Clark D
10. Cooper
11. Currie
12. Hughes
13. Clark J

14. BMM
15. Philbin
16. Akualoa
17. Mamo

18 Davis.

Westwood to miss out of the CC and to be saved for the one thing he wants...GF.

Imo

Ah well, it was nice taking part . . .

I'd play Ratchford in the halves and pray Mamo has a good catching day. Only way we'd get any creativity.

Badly?

Tony Smith must’ve told him the exact same thing too.

Shades of '09 final if Currie starts in the halves. Difference being we had Briers where as this time we've got the much maligned Declan. As long as we give it our all along with one of Wembley's kitchen sinks I don't think we can ask much more. Unfortunately this Saints side are the best SL outfit since ours in '11 imo.

And all we had for the show was a hubcap too.

No one does glorious failure like us.

Yeah this is what i would go with, but i'd be 50/50 between Mamo or Davis on the bench. Only doubt for me is Austin but even in his Sky interview he said theres no way i'm missing that. If Austin doesn't play lets dye Smiths hair and paint a goatee on and put him in a number 6 shirt

Davis on the bench 100%. We need a forward and someone who can come on at 9 if for any reason Daryl has to come off.

I’m waiting for some good news.

Maybe an interesting tactical team selection to sow the seeds of doubt in the opposition. Maybe a big signing announcement; but looks like I’ll have to stick with my daughters GCSE results as the only piece of positive news.

Good luck to your daughter for her results!

We're away in Spain so have to wait for my daughter's till we fly back Saturday night coz she won't let her brother open them for her!!

You should have registered for email delivery and reduce the painful wait

Was thinking how many of these need to happen to give us a chance

1- Austin plays and performs like the first half of the season
2- The props all lift their game and rip into Saints, Hill plays like he wasn’t the Captain (remember those days), Cooper offloads, Sita plays long minutes and skittles the defence
3- Ben Currie reproduces his form of yesteryear
4- BMM plays like his Salford days
5- Patton plays like he did in his early games following his debut
6- Clark performs at his usual standard
7- Discipline is spot on
8- Saints have an off day

19 man squad to be announced at lunchtime - we can start the discussions all over again after that.

Even then there can be late changes!

I'll go and clean my boots just in case.