SAINTS will have Regan Grace, Will Hopoate and Jon Bennison all fit and available for Saturday’s trip to play Toulouse Olympique in the south of France.

After the previous meeting in March, when they slipped to their first Super League defeat of the campaign at Stade Ernest-Wallon, Saints will have a different approach.

For a start it will be a stronger team being sent over on this occasion, and the club have also tweaked the travel arrangements after flying there and back in a day last time.

Coach Kristian Woolf confirmed that Grace and Hopoate have all trained this past two weeks or longer and are in the frame for selection.

Bennison has been cleared with his facial fracture sustained in the opening minute of the Castleford game in Easter week. He, too, is right to go and available this week.

Woolf explained why the club have taken their time with bringing those back in the fold after learning a harsh lesson from Hopoate’s previous hamstring re-occurrence.

He said: “Will has been training really well for more than three weeks now and moving really well and Regan Grace has been the same.

“We have been quite cautious and taken a bit of extra time with both of those blokes to make sure we don’t end up in a predicament again.

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“We are really confident that they are not just going to be able play this week but be in a position where they will play well and confidently too.

“If you look over the last seven or eight weeks we have had a really disjointed period where 13 or 14 of our top 17 have missed two weeks or more somewhere in that period.

“It has been disruptive and we have been chopping and changing every week with blokes playing out of position but now we are getting a bit closer to what is our strongest side.

“We are not quite there – but it is not too far away.

"If we can stay injury free, then outside of Doddy we should be able to get everyone back in the next few weeks.”

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Saints will travel in a similar fashion to the most recent Catalans game – going out the day before and coming back the next day.

“We are confident that we have got a bit of a formula that worked for us earlier in the year and it will work for us again,” Woolf said.

Toulouse scored the first of their two Super League victories with a 22-20 win over Saints on 19 March. Since then they have defeated Wakefield, and lost by a single score to Catalans, Hull KR and Huddersfield.

They have also strengthened the side with quality NRL recruits that Woolf has first-hand knowledge of.

“Toulouse played really well last time we played them – and if you look how they have gone through the season they have been competitive in most games, losing tight matched to both Warrington and Wigan the week before we played them so we knew what sort of game we were going over for.

“They have been quite good since and their last game was a one-point defeat by Huddersfield.

“I have worked with new signings Daniel Alvaro and Corey Norman, who will help them with some quality.

“Norman in particular will help them put some play together,” Woolf said.

The game marks the first of second half of the Super League campaign, with Saints two points and a healthy points difference ahead of second placed Catalans.

Refreshed after a post-Warrington break, and bolstered by the return of key players, Saints are not in the mood to let another one slip.

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“We did get caught out last time, even though we had spoken about and looked at their results beforehand,” Woolf said.

“But we had also come off the back of a couple of big games – with the one preceding it being a really big one against Warrington and we had five blokes who couldn’t back up.

“There was a fair bit of disruption there.

“This time it will be different as we know exactly what to expect, we are getting the travel arrangements different and better and we are taking over a stronger team.

“It is up to us to make sure we put all of those things together and play well.

“We know what we can do when we do that.”