We certain leroy is out? Any news on nature of his injury?

I think it's highly likely you will face the same back line that Leeds did last week. Walsh is rumoured to be improving quicker, but nothing certain yet about him playing.

The Forwards for Saints should be bolstered.

dont expect to hear good news later today about his ankle...but heres hoping



you would have to go a long long way back to find out when cudjoe missed a game through injury...he last missed a game just to be rested last season when we played the youngsters at bradford.

before that i think he had the longest run of games in super league

Hope to see a good crowd on sunday infront of the BBC.... club certainly pushing it with the cheap tickets and saints will bring a good 3k... shame we are having a poor start to the season.

line up id go for..

Grix
Mcgillvary
Murphy (harsh being left out in the first place and solid defender like cudjoe)
Connor (if saints can play matt dawson then surely we can throw our youngster in too)
Broughton

lunt
brough
robinson

Kopczak
Crabtree
Ferres
Lawrence
Chan

bench-
Kaufusi (went well last week from the bench)
Faiumu (playing very well at prop)
Taai (impact from the bench)
Wood


one thing saints will be good at is defence coached under nathan brown so we need to add something extra to the attack and this is where bailey could come in but i just cant put him ahead of lawrence.

maybe switch robinson to hooker when lunt comes off and bring bailey on instead of wood, this could work well

Dawson has given a fair showing so far. Looks quite solid in defense.

Only 2 matches so far though.

ticket sales poor according to club,less than 5,000 sold!

like what I said in Warrington game topic !

Its not just LOST points!
Its lost support and lost revenue also!
Some aspects can be retrieved a lot easier than others!

(and yes -I Know this is slightly different as its the CUP --but it still carries on AFTER!)

yes he looked decent enough but we didnt see much of him here, down the pecking order, brown obviously rates him as he brought him here then taken him again

To be fair you had a pretty good threequarter line last year, so he would have struggled for game time anyway, barring injuries.

Amor and Walmesley back for Saints, should be a great forwards battle

Looking forward to this one, hopefully you'll have a good crack at them. However:

Giants 11/8 underdogs for the win , saints odds on

When are squad announcements due on this one??

Friday?

Yes, world class.

I rate Shaun Lunt as 2nd best hooker in the English game when fully fit. And Luke Robinson is lethal when used as an interchange hooker. Are each of those players world class in those positions, I'm not sure, but I think if Lunt were given the opportunity on the international stage he would thrive, but as a combo then yeah, I think they are potentially a world class combo.

Yep. Saints squad has now been announced. Includes all the injured except Percival and of course Wilkin is still banned.

I just can't see how Walsh can be fit to play given his original prognosis of 4 to 6 weeks? I hope he IS fit, and is not being rushed back because it's a Cup game.

If Walsh isn't fully fit and he plays then Anderson has to tell our big guys to run at him, he's a danger and if we can wear him out by making him defend rather than attack that has to be a key for me.

He would be defending on the wing if he's carrying a knock, so your big men would have some lateral running to do in order to achieve that.

...any of our men then

Alternately well leave him in the sidelines while defending and he can run on when we have the ball on the last to do the kicking, American football style

Even better jerry can run at him then!!!

I think it's quite likely the original prognosis was exaggerated

I do hope they target Walsh. Because Roby and Lomax and Lance will have a field day.

I'd hope as a team we'd be a bit more tactically astute than "Let's run our big guys at their halfback cos he might be a bit injured." I'd rather we ran hard at Walmsley and Amor and try to wear them down a bit so they don't run through us like Warrington did for most of the second half last sunday.

i would like to see us tackle amor and walmsley so they don't tear us a new un!
i would also like to see us close walsh/lomax/roby/wilkin etc down so that reduces their options in attack
i would also like to see us improve 100% from what we have seen for most of the first 7 games!


failing that, a dodgy win will suffice

wardle back

only other week was out for 4/6 weeks

so we have one centre back at least and he normally does a job on soliola.

wardle and murphy the centres i would think.

looking forward to the game, underdogs tag seemed to suit us well last season