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Pryce: Included in St Helens squad

St Helens will have stand-off Leon Pryce back from injury for their Super League play-off semi-final against Wigan on Saturday.

The 29-year-old veteran has made only sporadic appearances this season and was absent from the Saints' last two matches through injury.

But he has been included in coach Royce Simmons' 19-man squad for the rematch from last year's Grand Final and the first week of the play-offs this season.

St Helens' victory a fortnight ago gave them home advantage for this weekend's showdown and Simmons has stuck with largely the same squad that was responsible for that 26-18 success.

Scott Hale, who did not make the match-day selection last time out, and Tom Armstrong drop out to make way for Pryce and utility back Gary Wheeler.

Achievement

St Helens are bidding to reach a sixth straight Grand Final and NRL bound prop James Graham is hoping to end his career at the club by bucking the trend of four defeats in a row at Old Trafford.

"It would be an achievement to reach a sixth final, but I'm not going to lie - I would have liked to have come back with more winners medals than the current return," he told the Saints' official website.

"Teams can have two or three good years and have a couple off whilst rebuilding. But we have consistently reached every Challenge Cup semi-final and the Grand Final for how many years.

"It is an achievement for a club to maintain that level of consistency. At the end of the day though, we want a bigger return than we have."

Joel Tomkins has been passed fit to play for Wigan after being taken off injured in the last round of the play-offs against Catalan Dragons.

Prop Lee Mossop returns to Michael Maguire's 19-man squad and is set to make his first appearance since the Challenge Cup final after recovering from shoulder and hamstring problems.

Cross out

However, fellow front rower Ben Cross will miss the contest after fracturing his forearm for a second time since August.

The rival clubs have already faced each other five times this season and Maguire says the outcome of the sixth contest will be all down to the players' performance on the day.

He told Wigan's website: "Both teams know each other, all the ins and outs and it comes down to the performance on the day.

"I am sure both myself and Royce will be looking at how we can change things and do things a bit better than we have done in the past, you always have to be aware of everything that is happening because right across the park they have very capable players.

"You can always tinker with a few things but it all comes back to the performance of the players on the day."

St Helens squad: Wellens, Shenton, Soliola, Meli, Pryce, Roby, Graham, Puletua, Wilkin, Moore, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Clough, Wheeler, Ashurst, Dixon, Lomax, Foster, Gaskell, Makinson.

Wigan squad: S. Tomkins, Carmont, Richards, Deacon, Leuluai, McIlorum, Coley, Hansen, J. Tomkins, O'Loughlin, Prescott, Lima, Hoffman, Finch, O'Carroll, Mossop, Farrell, Tuson, Charnley.