SOARAWAY Super League leaders Saints will be seeking to maintain their 100 per cent record when they travel to Huddersfield's McAlpine Stadium tomorrow (Friday) kick-off 7.30pm.

Kevin Iro (ankle) and Paul Davidson (neck) will miss this round nine clash, but there is a good chance that Tommy Martyn and Vila Matautia, who have been sidelined with shoulder problems, and Apollo Perelini (dead leg) will be fit.

With just two wins, the Giants will bid to get away from the lower reaches of the table, and former Saints' stars Bobbie Goulding, Danny Arnold, Jonathan Neill, Paul Loughlin and Ian Pickavance will obviously not be short on motivation.

Nor will Huddersfield assistant coach Phil Veivers, who wore the Knowsley Road jersey with distinction for 12 seasons, and the scene is set for a battle royal which will be screened live on Sky.

The referee is Stephen Presley, the Academy curtain-raiser starts at 5.30pm, and Supporters Club coaches will leave Knowsley Road at 5.15pm, price £6 and £6.50 non-members.

Admission prices are: Batley upper stand adult £14, concession £7; lower stand £12.50, £7. John Smith £11, £6. Parking at ground £2. Route: M62 to Exit 23. Follow signs for Huddersfield town centre. Then signs for McAlpine Stadium for 2 miles. Left turn onto Castlegate ring road. Left again onto A62, right onto Thistle Street. Right at bottom and left at traffic lights.

Swamped by telephone calls! That was Supporter's Club chairman Gerry Moore when he appealed in the Star for fans to sweep the Knowsley Road terraces after the Liverpool Reserves v Everton soccer match on Bank Holiday Monday. The Reds won 1-0 before a 4,000 crowd.

The Alliance team earned their seventh successive win with a 44-6 success at Widnes. Tries were scored by man-of-the-match Chris Newall (2), Nick Camman (2), Danny Pimblett, Gareth Price, Steve Hall (a field-length effort) and Mark McCulley, who also kicked six goals. Prop Phil Adamson had his best game since arriving from Australia in a Saints' team which read: Camman; McCulley, Hall, Cross, Pimblett; Johnson, Braddish; Adamson, Hamilton, Edwards, Stankevitch, Price, Newall. Substitutes Holdstock for Price (22bb), Price for Edwards (48), Butler for Cross (53), Capewell for Johnson (54), Bennett for Holdstock (60), Johnson for Capewell (75).

Scott Gibbs is reported to be joining Leeds when his contract with Saints expires on June 30.

Answer to correspondent Sam Leyland of Blackbrook: Saints defeated Leigh 12-3 in a Challenge Cup third round tie at Hilton Park in 1953. The crowd was a record 32,050. Glyn Moses and Don Gullick scored tries for Saints and George Langfield kicked three goals.

Saints' team was: Moses; Llewellyn, Greenall, Gullick, McCormick; Honey, Langfield; Prescott, Blakemore, Parr, Parsons, Bretherton, Cale.

The Leigh side included three St Helens-born players in the late Frank Kitchen and Harold Clough and Ted Kerwick, who are both still living locally. The full Leigh line-up read: Ledgard; Kitchen, Clough, Kerwick, McFarlane; Chadwick, Bradshaw; Edden, Egan, Owen, Pawsey, Mossop, Foster.

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