Overall on paper the individual Wigan and Leeds players should be fairly evenly matched.

Where Leeds lose out badly by comparison is sat in the stands where there appears to be an absolute gulf in class.

The Challenge Cup always has been and still is about the performance on the day and the underdog tag has not always proved decisive at the final whistle. Perhaps the whole Wembley experience will effect Wigan just as it did Leeds last season, perhaps last year's experience will stand Leeds in good stead, perhaps I need to visit Tescos and stock up on straws.

Clutch these...

I'll have Richie Mathers printed on each one first.

Stick 'em in the ground so that Bailey can use them as a training exercise to bulldoze past.

You're a true gent.

Maybe so he can try to skittle him, like he did to Rangi yesterday.

Bailey - classic half back bully.

I take it you said yes?

can i watch i love all in wrestling

I too lean to the glass half full.

Wigan of course will be strong favourites with far more attacking class and tremendous defence....but our over the hill dads army could ....just dig deep enough for one last hurrah. For several of our players this is a last chance to get a CC winners medal (you could even say this game is our Wembley???)

Peacock certainly was motivated to lift his game on Sunday and others will want to erase the embarrassing performance of last year so motivation should not be a problem.

Our problem is our attack which appears to have got lost somewhere along the line in sorting out our defence.

Our game plan should be to keep Wigan from scoring too many in the first half as they always try to blitz the opposition early doors. However to win we will have to outscore an attacking side, which means we will need to risk an offload game in the 2nd half and keep our most creative players on the field for as long as possible. If we are still in the game with 10 minutes to go my monies on Leeds.

Despite the form book I will be very disappointed if our performance is worse than last year's debacle.

Not letting Wigan get a lead early will be important. We need to sharpen up our attack enormously, as we didn't break down a determined but limited Cas team until near the end of the game.

We will (hopefully if both fit) have a very quick centre-wing partnership in Watkins-BJB on one side and a big partnership on the other in Ablett-Hall. You cannot try to set the two sides up in the same way. Watkins needs to be given ball in space which means when attacking the line standing further back, giving him a chance to run at the opposing centre. He's not going to do as well with 'crash ball' close to the line.

Leeds' playmakers also eat a lot of space out wide before setting up others. Its been a problem for a long time which McGuire last season seemed to have started to change. The problem with your halfbacks continually taking the ball wide themselves is that it allows the defence to slide (that old chestnut about the ball going faster than the player is still true). They could all do with trying to stay a bit more central for more tackles, and trusting the centres and full back to make the width.

Bottom line is, for all our creative players - Burrow, McGuire, Sinfield, Buderus and Webb - we managed to score one try in 80 minutes against Cas. With those lot in there we ought to be able to structure every attacking set of tackles far better than we do.

Leeds gameplan should be what they've done twice this season to Wigan - play your sets, kick to the corners to prevent Tomkins getting too much ball in broken field and make Wigan play from their own half.

When you get the chance to attack their line, take it right then stack numbers on the left hand side and force Tomkins (J) and Charnley to make some difficult decisions. Saints did it twice to them late on Saturday and got rewards for it.

Manic offloads and high risk plays are not the way to beat this Wigan side IMO.