Tough decision, probably with no obvious right or wrong choices.

For me I think since we are within sniffing distance of a Wembly final I would rest Coops and Clark. It's unlikely we will beat Saints at this stage of the season and since we will not be exactly disrupting an outstanding run of form with a settled side, I would rest the best deserving cases - probably in the forwards.

Of course we don't know what side Saints will put out. They are so far ahead of the rest of the league, they don't need the points to finish top so we can not assume they will play their strongest side either.


Perhaps give Justin a ring ?

"Gday Justin, we have a terrible bout of flu over here. Looks as though we might be 6-7 players down this week"

"Sheesh Steve, we have also had a bit of bad luck. I think we might have had some bad roo meat on the barbie at the weekend and half the squad will be out"

I think no team are highlighting the importance of consistently winning than Saints ,don't they only need 2 or 3 wins in the super 8s to grab the LLS. A couple of early wins & they can start resting players for the super 8 semis.

If we go into a game without big forwards we heighten the risk of injury having guys trying to play above their weight.

We go at it full on and stuff em.

Didn’t Redford admit “gambling” on players returning to get the 2 points this weekend? My view is try and win the next game, don’t bugg*r about.

Our form has dipped since the quarter final win, in order to regain it we need to keep our best team out there each week (barring injury / serious knocks). How many times have we seen a team, on the verge of a knock out match, rest players only to have it backfire the following week?

I doubt that we'll get a win at Saints but it is important that we put in a good performance - then who knows.