This year people were moaning that the team didn't train enough together as a unit.
But now it seems many of those same people are very happy that not only will the team train even less together but will not have any idea of who is available until a couple of days before a game. Its funny how people's attitudes change just because the name St Helens is added.
The availability of the Saints players will not be known until they name their squad for their own weekend game, after which both us and Rochdale will be allocated players. Those players will not have trained at Haven all week and, in some cases, never trained at Haven at all. I also understand that any Saints player who is sent up here must be guaranteed a place in our team that weekend.
It kind of makes a mockery of Woods' comments about all players attending all training sessions. How would you feel as a Haven player who attended all sessions and suddenly get dropped on Sunday because a Saints fringe player has become available ? I can see this causing even more disharmony in the squad to be honest.
Like I said, I don't understand how some people who were unhappy with this year's training arrangements are now seemingly very pleased with this.
