SAINTS will be hoping to bounce back to winning ways at Knowsley Road on Friday night when they take on a workmanlike Huddersfield side.

And although Sean Long limped off in the final quarter of the clash at Headingley last Friday, he has been passed fit to play.

Saints also welcome back flu victim Paul Wellens, who will add some security to the last line of defence.

Although Wellens' replacement last week, Ian Hardman, performed admirably at full back, there was a general shakiness in the way the team dealt with kicks. Four of Leeds' five tries came either directly or indirectly from the boot.

Ian Millward said: "Their first try was just a good kick and chase and they had us under pressure.

"The last one the kid (Hardman) should have caught it on the full. It was just a little bit of inexperience with his positional play, but he is only young. He will learn from that and put himself in the right position in future.

"We will have to be good under the kicks on Friday, because Huddersfield are a team that kicks a lot.

"Huddersfield are a very workmanlike side and they always give us a tough game.

"This is a tough league. You can't turn up to any game and expect to win."

20-man squad: Wellens, Gardner, Jamie Lyon, Willie Talau, Albert, Roby, Long, Fozzard, Higham, Anderson, Gilmour, Graham, Sculthorpe, Wilkin, Cunningham, Edmondson, Bennett, Hardman, Fa'asavalu, Viane.

Friday night's game is not televised and Saints will be hoping for another five figure crowd.

Millward has said he believes the pre-season transfer wrangling at Bradford may have unsettled them.

"It unsettled us when Martin Gleeson was sold. So what is it going to be like when you put seven names on a table, with two of them meant to be sold? Imagine sitting there now saying, 'I was not wanted'," he said.

The Saints boss has poured cold water on talk that Kiwi teen sensation Sonny Bill Williams could be joining Saints.

"I did ring his manger and have a chat. The figures were not in our league. We do not have that sort of money.

"This kid will stay in Australia.

"We enquired, which was our responsibility to do, just like we did with Jamie Lyon last year," Millward said.