Tell you what I am doing though..........ignoring all these Saints fans or other clubs fans who are saying it's our time, we'll batter them etc, they've got all these players out, you must beat them.

Well I only caught the tries in the Crusaders game and, of course, all generalisations are subject to exceptions, but, unless you've never seen a KR game on TV, you have to accept that there is more booing from the home fans than at any other SL ground.

Actually, I disagree. There was a fair bit of booing from the Wire fans last night. I think all fans boo the ref when he makes a decision they don't like or that is patently wrong and against their team. Saints fans are no different from any other set of fans in this respect.

If you had been at Knowsley Road on Friday night and had asked the Saints fans what they thought of Crusaders and the match they gave us, especially in the second half, you would have heard a lot of compliments to the Crusaders side and a fair bit of criticism of the Saints players who presumably decided that they didn't have to bother defending anymore as it was all in the bag. Or something. Thankfully, Kyle was wiser than that and dropped a goal to save us.

Will have to look to quick play the balls and make sure the ruck is clean when defending because if Silverwood referees this game like he did in the WCC, there will be penalties galore. He'll try and pick up on every little thing like he normally does, so I hope we don't give him an excuse to blow up every 2 minutes.

As I said, there are exceptions, but there is a well-known RL expression along the lines of 'Saints fans would boo their grandmas' which hasn't become common parlance without some cause. Fans do boo the ref, but Saints fans constantly boo the opposition for flat passes ( 'cause they didn't get a forward decision from the ref - and don't start me on shouts of 'forward' at Saints - ) tackles and PTBs, etc etc.

The way I see it, we've nearly won there a few times under Cull, when we couldn't defend for toffee. Now, we're awesome, it's a formality.

Tough ask for Saints this one, if they can't beat us in the first 20 mins they're buggered as all teams in SL now know, Warrington don't concede again after the twenty minute mark, awesome.

you speak too much sense

Don't forgot with Lowes last season we blew a 14 point lead.

Did you concede after the 20 min mark at home to wigan ?

Didn't we hear all this last year when we was due to play you at your place?

were going to do this, were going to do that, were going to smash you was all i heard, up pops a young lad called eastmond.

You've not earned you right to be cocky yet, i'd keep my mouth shut if i was you lot, it could come back to haunt you.

Fair enough you've looked good this year but don't count your chickens yet

Is there any irony that both sides have kicked drop goals over the weekend?

Lets look at all the Saints and Wire players that played against each other last year and compare said players to themselves this year.

Last year it was close but this year our players look like they have jumped up a notch.
The big ginge is the same all be it very good prop and maybe Eastmond might have improved slighty but other than that man for man we do look stronger than saints this time round.

Not much in it mate, if we have our full team out and you have full team out, it will be close game.

to be fair i think it will come down to fitness levels and the last 10 minutes