Jamie Foster column

As a St Helens lad, it’s a pain to miss the Wigan game. It’s the one I enjoy playing in the most.

Make no bones about it, I’ve never enjoyed losing to them when I was playing for Saints. I also played against them for Hull FC last season and they beat us at the DW.

But my record against them has been okay. We have won some pretty important games against them when we’ve needed to.

St Helens beat them in the play-offs and when we did a year at the Stobart Stadium. I think I’ve probably won more than I’ve lost against them.

But I would love to have been involved on Sunday, especially with the form we’re in at the moment. It’s a pretty disappointing game to miss.

We’re playing some really good stuff and I don’t think we’re a club that have to just talk it up any more.

We don’t just say things to the papers when we know we’re going to get rolled over by 30 points. It’s not like that here any more.

We’re training well and I think we’ve got a good chance. It’s a shame I won’t be out there but I’m just concentrating on getting myself back as soon as possible.

It maybe a week or so before I’m training fully again but I was absolutely over the moon with the news about my ankle.

I really did fear the worst because of the size of it when I was sat in that changing room after the Salford game.

It didn’t sound too good when I went down. I heard a bit of a crunch and I was in a bit of a bad way.

But there was no break or any fractures and the MRI scan came back as a grade two tear, which is the best I could have hoped for.

I knew there was going to be something wrong with it. I’d not just rolled my ankle and there was a lot more pain than that.

But it’s only a three to four-week job and I’ve missed a week already, so hopefully I should be targeting the Warrington game.