FORMER skipper Paul Wellens makes his first start of the year, coming in at stand off for the suspended Travis Burns.

Jordan Turner returns to the centre after missing last week with the effects of concussion.

Greg Richards starts at prop in a young pack in place of the suspended Kyle Amor.

Wakefield: Hall; Riley, Collis, Lyne, Owen; Miller, T. Smith; D. Smith, Washbrook, Scruton, Kirmond, Ashurst, Ryan. Subs: Lauitiiti, McShane, Simon, Paea.

Saints: Lomax; Makinson, Percival, Turner, Swift; Wellens, Wilkin; Walmsley, Roby, Richards, Vea, Greenwood, Flanagan. Subs: Masoe, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Thompson, Hohaia.