WITH play-off chances blighted by the double defeat by Wigan, fifth-placed Saints will be anxious to get back into winning vein when bottom club Huddersfield Giants visit Knowsley Road on Sunday, Kick-off 3pm.

Coach Shaun McRae will have to find a replacement for the suspended Bobbie Goulding, but Julian O'Neill is expected to return after missing the game at Swansea due to a back injury sustained at home.

Former Saints star Phil Veivers will make a nostalgic return as Giants' caretaker coach, as will free-scoring full-back Danny Arnold, who moved to the McAlpine Stadium in the close season. The Academy team will meet Featherstone in a curtain-raiser, kick-off 3pm.

Re-arranged kick-off times for Saints matches are: Warrington away, Sunday, August 9. 6.35pm. Bradford home, Sunday, August 16 7.35pm. Leeds away, Friday, September 4, 7.30pm.

Saints Alliance side travel to Huddersfield tonight, Thursday, kick-off 7.30pm.

Saints are reported to be interested in Penrith Panthers prop Phil Adamson.

Chairman Tom Ellard and football manager Eric Hughes will hold an Open Forum with the Supporters Club members in the cabaret room on Monday, August 3, from 7.30pm.

Apologies to former Saints' star Austin Rhodes for failing to supply the Knowsley Road side which defeated Australia 44-2 in 1956. The local line-up was: Moses; Llewellyn, Greenall, Finnan, Carlton; Dickinson, Rhodes; Prescott, McCabe, Terry, Silcock, Gaskell, V. Karalius.

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