Had we beaten Saints at home and had this weekend off I would be far from confident simply because I doubt that we would be capable of beating Saints in the playoffs twice (with Leeds they are the masters of playoff rugby). I do feel confident that over two games we have a good chance of winning one and losing one, and if that is to happen I would far rather it be this way round.

I never thought we'd beat Saints twice.


Also Saddened; if we lose on Sat it will be nothing in comparison to you GF defeats to our confidence. We've been favourites and not reached the final just once before and that was last year where we lost with the last kick of the game.

And NS; coming on here and calling us graceless tells me a lot more about you than our fanbase.

find it laughable that a placcy scouser can call our fans graceless,when they have o levels in being graceless.as for the game itself it should be a cracker and the bookies are making wire favs but only just..saints are getting a 2 point start on the h,cap

My nerves are almost shot to pieces already. If Roby gets the space he will run riot .... again. If we are on our game and not overcome with nerves I see us reaching our first GF. Looking forward to it immensely. Come on the Wire !!!!

Saints fans setting themselves up with a nice get out clause....total BS

We are slight favourites with the bookies...so what. Everything in history both short and long term points to a likely Saints win...For Wire to win will be a massive achievement...massive ....end of.

We can win this defiantly. We just need to concentrate whilst having fun! I think playing away will work in our favor. Atmosphere in the away stands leak out onto the players as Wire are generally more vocal away rather than at home imo, a classic derby and going to be an absolute cracker! I think it's either going to be an extremely close game or an absolute whitewash, we shall see!

COME ON WIRE!!!

Do you mean defiantly or definately?

If you get benny and carvell back you should win and if so, most saints fans would IMO hope you beat the goons or Leeds.
May the best team on the day win and pray its not decided by some dodgy ref or video ref decision (like Cats vs Leeds).

I'm not sure. Which one is correct? Actually why does it matter? You knew what I meant...

I honestly think we could beat you (or come extremely close to beating you) without Benny or Gaz back. Obviously we couldn't first time round but I believe we lost more down to us bombing our chances. For the most part our defense was very good I thought. Against another team the scoreline would have been far bigger.

We certainly tend to have 'O' levels in English grammar matey unlike, apparently, other parts of ex-Lancashire

I look forward to the good-natured way your apparently cultured, educated and endlessly sporting fans will react to the final score on Saturday then - lots of generous applause and "well dones" for the opposition come what may, right?

--wrong-now feck off -

Errrrr.... who's setting themselves up with a get out clause exactly? I'm confused....



I must say the tone of things 'round here has changed a whole heck of a lot lately: from "who are we going to play in the WCC final given that we've already won the GF this season" to "we're rank outsiders to beat a limited Saints team and as long as we don't get beat by 50 then we've done great under the circumstances" threads in just a few short weeks. Amazing what a couple of characteristically bad playoff performances can do, eh?