Devious.

As for predictions, I'll go
Saints 18 - 16 Wigan
23500 or whatever capacity is permitted
Mom Roby


and me to have a very sore head on saturday

It will be more than that, we'd sold over 3,000 last Thursday (based on what was left given Wigan sales & unreserved capacity)

As to selling out, that is going to be down to the currently undecided...

Watched the highlights of last years game at the DW, it got the hairs up on the neck when Gidley puts Foster in, it also shows how useful Pryce is - hope he comes back playing like he was last year!

His try from the scrum was fantastic to watch. That game was on my birthday; what a great present!

Think there will only be 6 points in it, if we keep our attack going like the last 3 games we should win it. Got a feeling Eastmond will be on the bench (won't start) with Wheeler at 6 if Meli is fit. LMS, Roby and Big Tony are on form so these should give the Wigoons a good test in the front row.
Wigoons are struggling to score points lets hope it continues, like to see Sia put a massive hit on Mr S Tomkins and hopefully Lima will be a penalty machine.

Lima is on report for another third man tackle on the legs, this time after the hooter had gone, so i doubt he'll play!

That knocks a leg off the table then, thats a shame eh!

Now then, let's get onto the more important subject....

Where's everyone drinking pre-match?

Hope you two knock ten bells out of each other, seriously.
Dont forget the mighty Cas!! are in town on monday!!.

Don't you have a little derby of your own to sort out first.

Who? never heard of em!!

I can actually see us losing to Cas more than losing to Wigan. All the players will be up for the Wigan game and I expect it to be a right ding dong. But Cas , well I think they will stroll it against Wakey and be ready to go on Monday.

If we pick up anymore injuries it could be the under 18's v cas on Monday. I would expect Eastmond to play cas though, Can't see Simmons risking Lomax in back to back games with the rest of the season to come.

A true believer, couldn't have put it better myself

From a Wigan point of view, this is the game of the season! Glad to have a good Friday game at home for a change.

I'll stick my neck out and say Wigan by 12. This IMO will be the game that gets our season going.....hopefully!

I'm kind of relieved you managed to beat HKR last weekend - I'd be extremely weary of the wounded beast if you were going into the derby on the back of a losing run.

If we can get 2 of Jammer, Perry and Clough on the squad, then I'll be happy, although I'm worried about our lack of long kicking without Gaskell - look out for Roby taking sme of that responsibiilty and kicking out of dummy half.

Its a strange one for me. We've been playing very well, but I can't have faith that we'll be able to sustain our high level against one of the top teams until I see it. I can imagine it going a few different ways on Friday.