I've never seen it rain as hard as I saw it at Wembley a few weeks ago, and we won against the World Champions, so theory doesn't and up to the evidence I'm afraid.

As well as playing in the wet at Wembley, the most fluent, error-free and cohesive 40 minutes of rugby we’ve played this season came in the first half of the Leeds game at home where it hammered down throughout. We were 30-0 up inside half an hour, but then when the rain stopped approaching half time we started messing up and didn’t score a point for 40 minutes and almost let Leeds back into the game.

So we can play wet-weather rugby when we have to (at least we can against Leeds), but obviously, our game is more suited to dry conditions.

This is the key - we stop playing as recklessly when it rains, because that's suicidal. Perhaps what we need this weekend is rain, to keep the silly plays to a minimum, and give us more Saints mistakes to take advantage of. It was very dry a week last Saturday, and look how much good that did us.

Fair enough comment Jay, although playing 'catch up' rugby might just be harder in the rain especially when it becomes "reckless" and then "suicidal"?

We need to stop panicking whatever the weather and try and control the game like our last visit to Saints when we were top notch IMO

I do enjoy watching the creative rugby we play, which isn't clear from my earlier comment, but we do seem to be panicking more easily this season (especially in the playoffs) which is when it becomes reckless. You need to be calm and aware to correctly judge when an offload or a long pass is likely to work, while desperately trying to offload from every tackle will result in giving the ball away as often as not, and put you further behind than you were already.

Think we will just play same as Saturday, basic rugby nothing fancy, Westwood and Carvell would make that job even more easy.

Here's hoping on all fronts

Super Benny Westwood. Get us into the GF with his usual heart and determination and he may even pick up MoS along the way.

cultered, educated and endlessly sporting..describes your bully of a coach in the sporting manner he congratulated trent robinson over in france and how he praised alibert in the handling of your defeat to wakey...pots pans and kettles spring to mind