SAINTS will welcome back Agnatius Paasi and Sione Mata’utia back into the fold for Sunday’s trip to Hull FC.
Mata’utia has missed the last three games with suspension, while Paasi sat out Sunday’s win against Castleford after suffering the effects of a head knock post-Salford the previous week.
Coach Kristian Woolf says Will Hopoate has a chance of a return – but he will be looked at this week in training.
Saints will be without Curtis Sironen, who has picked up a two-match ban from the Castleford game.
Saints have recalled Josh Simm from his loan spell at Hull FC after youngster Dan Hill injured his shoulder early in Sunday’s game. Hill will now be sidelined for between four-to-six weeks.
Woolf said: “Both Agnatius Paasi and Sione Mata’utia will be 100 per cent available.
“Will Hopoate we will have to get back into training and see where he is at.
“Will will have some chance but I won’t sit here now and say that he’s a definite.”
This is Saints’ last long trip of the season – and although Hull have suffered with injuries and hit a bad spell of games, they are still in the mix for top six which makes them a desperate team.
“You can’t go away from is that they are a team that still has a chance of making the six and are in a desperate situation and they are going to play their best game.
"They are at home and it is a case of now or never for them and that is how we need to prepare just as desperately as they do,” Woolf said.
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