Andy Goode

Imagine if Anton Dupont had done what Archie McParland did.

Do you reckon Archie McParland's close to a call-up?

Yeah.

He's got to be in the mix, yeah.

His performances over the last few weeks while Mitchell's been injured have made you think, well, actually, we haven't missed Mitchell from a Saints point of view.

Well, this is the thing.

So I messaged Max DiGiomo in the week and we started to hear snippets of the team coming out.

And I'm like, why are you rotating for a quarterfinal against...

the best or the second best team in England, if that's the way you look at it, right?

I understand rotation sometimes, but Van Graam's done this thing where he's rotating all year round, but then in big knockout games, you just expect your gun 15 to be picked, right?

Which I don't think anyone can argue that you put...

Max DiGiomo at 12 as your best 12 ahead of Cam Redpath.

Cam Redpath's a great player, but he's not played masses recently.

And it was a bit of a risk to bring him in.

And he played reasonably well, obviously got bounced off for a tackle, made a couple of errors, but did some good things as well.

But you're always going to expect when you're...

making these changes and coming into a game on a Friday night and yes it was a six-day turnaround so maybe that was why he lent into a bit of rotation but you're not going to have the connections as slick as a Saints team who when you got Hutchinson and Dingwall playing together in the centres you got Finn Smith back at 10 you know these guys are used to the fluidity of how they attacked and weirdly I went up to watch them train on Wednesday Saints and

I interviewed Fraser Dingwall, and the first thing he said to me, he goes, oh, mate, sorry about how bad that session was.

And I was like, what are you on about, lads?

The ball's flying everywhere.