Wigan will not give them space we gave them - their defence is far more energetic than ours.

Cas will not lie down but realistically you can't see them beating Wigan at Wigan in a game Wigan are desperate to win

Anything is possible. They've just beaten Leeds at Leeds in a game Leeds really needed to win.
Mind you, it is their cup final, and they'll probably be spent this week

wigan will win with plenty to spare. cas are done. won their final, season over

Wigan thought they'd beat Hull comfortably the other week and almost blew it with poor defence that saw Hull cut them open a number of times.

IF Cas go there and give it a go then it's possible they could win.

there's no pressure on us at all, if anything the pressure is on Leeds, because they have been the outstanding team this year and have led the competition for so long that it would be a travesty if they finished 4th after all the bigging up an hype they've had.

we have always assumed we were going to finish 4th and go to Leeds in the semi, then we beat saints and it looked like we would finish 3rd and go to Wigan.

now, we have a (slim) chance of winning the LLS and a home semi! so no pressure on us, but i would like a home semi!

A chance of home field advantage means that their is pressure on Hudds. Of all the teams they're the one who is least likely to go away in the playoffs and win irrespective of their current form. So their GF chances massively alter based on Friday's result.

I don't think at this point in time after the last 3 games, where Leeds finish is the primary concern for the Leeds players right now, they'll be more interested in finding form.

Hudds are suddenly thinking about home field advantage and possible LLS. Leeds were but will now be more interested in playing well. If we lose but play well, it'll be some encouragement we need ahead of the playoffs.

Maybe the "Ape" can actually coach?

yeah i realise that, i was meaning more what the expectations were a few weeks ago, we couldn't have expected to be playing off for a home semi, that's what i was saying, until last weekend we were expecting to go to wigan.

"Few weeks ago"
"Last weekend"

Past expectations, not new expectations.

My criticisms of Wane have never been about his abilities to get the best out of his limited charges. There is only Burgess, Bateman, Williams & possibly Flanders & Tomkins I would take from your team the other night. A remarkable effort.

One game at a time is how Anderson looks at it. We don't have a particular problem with playing away from home- and have no crowd advantage at home- in fact the crowd are more vocal away- so I'm not sure they will be too fixated on a home tie tbh with you. No one wants to go to Wigan due to their record- but the pressure would all be on Wigan to keep it.

Yup. I expect Cas to roll over to have their belly's tickled.

As well as Saints, we should thank Hull FC for not folding like a house of cards when they played at Wigan a couple of rounds ago. With a weakened team, they looked certain to get a massive hiding, but made it a close game. If they hadn't then coupled with our abject display in France our points difference advantage would be gone already.