I agree, at the end of the day, this is a squad game and flogging your first fit 17 when you have other players available is ridiculous. The great team of Manchester Utd in the late 90s chopped and changed between the competitions to keep legs fresh. You have a squad, use them!

It's a squad game, Saints have got themselves in a position to be able to utilise that squad as Woolf obviously thinks this is giving them the maximum opportunity to do the treble.
He's also building for the future by giving the younger players a look at what a first team game day looks like whilst he also gets the opportunity to see where they are with their development.
Some of them might have absolute stormers of a game which in turn makes the current incumbents of that position have a bit of a think about their own motivation.
I'd love my club to be in that position.

Ha ha, the great m/u kept legs fresh. I could play soccer 7 days a week and twice on Sunday.

I guess we'll see how "stacked" it is after your game at Cas ??

I think it is a weaker side than it would have been, but with quite a few already injured there is little room to rotate.

Grace injured
Hopoate injured
Dodds injured
MATA’UTIA injuried
Sironen banned
Hurrell banned
Knowles banned or injured
Roby getting his OAP bus pass

He struggles with physicality at times so I suppose that’s why he is on the bench. Saints have 4 academy lads making their debut hopefully they do less minutes tonight.
We might see Bell at stand off and Moss at scrum half who played in our friendly against Leigh I think.
Not sure who’s full back probably Hill with Bennison going to centre.