St Helens welcome back NINE for their semi-final clash

St Helens head coach Kristian Woolf has welcomed back nine stars to his side for their clash against Leeds Rhinos in this Friday’s semi-final play-off.

Lachlan Coote, Tommy Makinson, Kevin Naiqama, Mark Percival, James Roby, Morgan Knowles and Joe Batchelor are all back in the squad.

Sione Mata’utia is also fit and returns after hobbling off against Leeds in our last home game. Agnatius Paasi has served his two match suspension and is included.

The players to drop out are Josh Simm, Josh Eaves, Dan Norman, Sam Royle, Jonathon Bennison, Shay Martyn, Taylor Pemberton and Reece Sumner.

The St Helens squad in full:

1. Lachlan Coote, 2. Tommy Makinson, 3. Kevin Naiqama, 4. Mark Percival, 5, Regan Grace, 6, Jonny Lomax, 8. Alex Walmsley, 9. James Roby, 10. Matty Lees, 11. Joel Thompson, 13, Morgan Knowles, 14. Sione Mata’utia, 15, LMS, 16. Kyle Amor, 17. Agnatius Paasi, 18. Jack Welsby, 19, Aaron Smith, 20, Joe Batchelor, 21. Lewis Dodd, 23, Jake Wingfield, 29. Ben Davies.