Coote
Makinson Naiqama Welbsy Grace
Lomax Richardson
Amor Smith Ashworth
Batchelor Peyroux
Paulo
Roby Knowles Lees Walmsley (or Thompson)
Would be my choice
Good to see Batchelor featuring in the 19. I more or less expected Costello or Bentley in the 19.
It will be interesting who goes into Percival's place, Peyroux, Batchelor, Welsby or a re-work of the 3/4 line and Swift on the wing? That left hand side missing Percival and Taia will look a bit strange.
Presumably Paulo to left SR? Be interesting how he'd go there.
There's 5 props in that 19. Assuming Smith gets one bench spot, will we really go with 3 other out and out props on the bench? (I know Ashworth has played some SR, as well as centre in his early days, but he's nowhere near got the versatility of LMS). Then again, it's going to be another warm day, so spelling the big men more (even with reduced interchanges) might help stave off inevitable exhaustion.
Think I'd go with Makinson to left centre and Swift on the right wing. The alternative is Welsby at left centre; with Oaulo filling in on that side and Grace still not exactly experienced, the experience and leadership of Makinson would help.
Hull are rotating too.
Houghton, Griffin , Paea and Ellis those of not eleft out from Friday among others. Possibly targetting games they think they can win?
Interesting ideas Webbo. I wonder whether Walmsley and Thompson can play 50 minutes. If so I would pick them. The big issue for me is left centre and left second row. I would put Bachelor and Welsby there
I don’t think Makinson is a centre and I would leave the right side alone. Smith on the bench so Roby plays 50 minutes. Knowles at loose forward for me. Paulo Lees and Amor on the bench. Maybe Bachelor and Welsby next to Grace is too big a defensive risk. I don’t know
With Fages, Percival, LMS and Taia already out of the side I wouldn't rest anyone because Hull are challenging for top 5 now so if we consolidate that top 2 early then we've got no pressure. Most of our hard work is done and our next 5 super league games 4 of those are home games, so we could start to look at rotation in the month of May.
Congrats to Makinson top metre maker now in Superleague.
At least they are getting some game time. This time of year must be quite a worry for the dual-reg clubs, not knowing which players will be available to them due to the quick turn around. Did the clubs agree who would be available before the Good Friday game or are they able to utilise those not in the 19?
According to Mike Latham (Chairman) we get told by Saints before EACH game which of your players are available for selection.
Would have loved to have Costello & Bentley for the Good Friday game at Widnes, rather than the Dewsbury one....but still grateful we can borrow them on Monday.
I am sure that Smith has played centre for you how did he shape up.?
Thought we had stopped putting square pegs in round holes with the Cunningham area. There is a reason Hull keep attacking down our left hand side and we keep attacking down our right, replace injured players with like for like.
How did Bachelor go today. And Paulo starting.
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screaming in the family corner, scaring the kiddies
Any obvious injuries from today?
Can I just say that was a fantastic team effort today.Easter Monday games are usually very flat and with 10 mins gone, down 0-10 and with Thomson going off I feared the worst but hats off to that team for playing with such flair and energy today. We absolutely blitzed Hull for pace, energy and invention. All the newcomers payed well and Ashworth, Knowles and Lees lead from the front with really strong performances. Add to that the class of Lomax, Roby and Coote along with the power and speed of Naquama and Swift and what you got was an afternoon of brilliant running and ball handling in the sunshine.
Richardson has just shown why we're a better team with him in for me. I've never seen Jonny with as much space in my life and each time it was off the back off Danny going to the line and finding the right man. 9 tries down our right
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A great performance. Hopefully Thompson is okay. Holbrook did say LMS and Percival would be out for a while then said a few weeks so hopefully not as bad as it sounds.
Shows that we can attack down the right hand side.
Thought our middle was absolutely outstanding again. Read Lee Radford’s comments before the game today and I read Adrian Lam’s comments before Friday’s game, both highlighted it but it’s one thing talking about it and another thing stopping it. 10/15 minutes into the game our forwards stepped it up and Hull just couldn’t live with it. They aren’t a bunch of no hopers either, even though they had a few missing Sika Manu, Minichello, Taylor, Westerman, Matongo etc aren’t poor players and have played at the top level but the energy that Lees, Ashworth, Amor, Knowles, Thompson, Roby etc played with just blew them away. Teams just can’t live with those blokes at the minute. We didn’t even have Walmsley and LMS out there today which shows just how strong we are in that department.
On the back of that I thought Jonny Lomax was on another level again, absolute masterclass. Again though, it’s so much easier for the likes of Coote, Lomax and Naquima when they’re facing a defence that’s going backwards and is out of position because they’ve just been bent early on in the set. Those tries on the edges came about because of what our forwards did prior to that.
Great to see Swift in such good nick as well, took his tries really well and carried the ball well too.
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Yes Richardson's passing and second phase was excellent today, lots of players running off him, KN seems to like early ball for that extra second of space.
Morgan Knowles workrate was outstanding this afternoon, very Robyesque performance. Thought Batchelor went OK for the first 60 mins and didn't look out of place.
When we went 10 points down I wasn't particularly worried because I could see we were quite capable of creating gaps with the tempo and energy of our forwards.