I don't think Saints would agonise too long over that decision to be honest.

The past in no way influences the future. Saints will make the decision based on which they percieve to be the lesser threat. With a minimum of 80 mins of hard knockout rugby to come, it would be foolish to make a decision yet. Warrington's squad IMO is the stronger, and do have a good run of form and big game experience behind them. Wigan's form has been patchy over the last couple of months, and have fewer game breakers IMO.

Regardless of the hoodoo - I'd be more confident of beating Wigan in 2 weeks time than Wire.

Must admit i wouldn't fancy meeting warrington at any stage now after the cc final.

Given Saints 41-2-1 SL record against Warrington during the SL era, that ought to be the rational decision.

I'm just not ruling out an emotional decision given that Wigan beat Saints at KR on their last outing and they may want to put that right in their very last appearance at KR.

They may also want to avoid Leeds in another GF and hope to face Warrington instead.

I wouldn't rule out HKR or Hudds winning.

neither have the attack to score enough points in playoff rugby against a top team.

although hull kr have a very nifty kicking game and a good set of forwards, so it should be a very tough tense game for wigan.

i think the ref tried hard for wigan last night, but justice was done when richards missed the kicks! on the night the best team won and i am proud of the lads! i think wigan fans just expect to win things

All that effort and no one can be ar$ed to read it!

And actually I think he was accusing our fans of being arrogant. From what I've seen of his/her posts making the connection between the realtive spending of two clubs 20 years ago is well beyond him/her. In fact beyond grunts and tactless cobblers, almost everything is beyond him/her.

Read what?

Wigan spent near enough the same on Offiah as we did on Hanley, Schofield and Crooks put together. If you add the other signings around that time Cowie, Panapa, Botica, Connelly, the Iro brothers, Billy McGinty, Mark Preston, Adrian Shelford, Kelvin Skerrett, Tuigamala and Gene Miles, it really is quite astounding.

It should be noted that the above excludes the likes of Lydon, Goodway, Gregory, Hanley and Gill whom were all signed by the happy Mr Lindsay three or four years earlier. It also misses out the amateur talent they hoovered up such as Forshaw, Betts, Hampson, Myers, Radlinski, Robinson, Stazika, Byrne, Dermott et al.

Leeds spent a fair bit in the same period, most of it on crap but, in no way did we even come close to Wigan.