This really should be a win for Warrington if you consider we have home advantage and are building a winning mentality despite not always playing great. We will lose Morley, Westwood and Smith to England while Bradford will only be down Burgess.

Looking at the league table it is really important to carry on winning to cement a top 8 finish before worrying about attacking the top 4.

Everything points to a Warrington victory, but why do i have a feeling that this is just the type of game we will lose?

Because Jimmy Lowes is in charge this week?

this is a big game for us points wise,i hope we put in a convincing display for the full 80 minutes,we have done brilliantly recently where we have recovered for a poor opening 10/15 minutes without really hitting our straps.
bradford will be no pushovers but if we move the ball out swiftly we should score enough trys for the win,i think the pack should cope even without mozza as collectively all our props have impressed.
looking forward to the game as my 5 year old son is coming and we have never lost when i take him,unfortunately my wife is coming too and her last game was at wilderspool about 8 years ago when we were 20 odd points up at half time against huddersfield and promptly lost the game with a no show second half display!
wires by 11/15 points.

I can understand if Morley and Westwood not being there, but there's no reason I can see why the boss man can't be I'm sure they will be back by dinner Sunday

First BA flight out of Paris on Sunday would see him land back in London for 8am. With a car waiting for him there is no reason why he couldn't be back in Warrington for lunchtime. [size[i(Other airlines and services are available)[/i[/size

Fair enough, so we can assume that Smith is back. We also need to make sure McNamara is back for Bradford aswell.

According the the League Express (apparently, I havent got my copy yet), Smith will be back in time to watch the game. McNamara isn't going to France though.

Oh good , Should Win it comfortably ,, Wire by 16

Should beat Bradford with double figures, we have good enough replacements for Moz and Ben to beat the Bulls who haven't been playing that well for a number of weeks.

Before TS your last sentence could be correct but I think we're a much tougher and resourceful outfit now. Wire by 20 for me. (even without Moz, Benny and Mick H.)

Expect the attendance to be up given the need for non-season ticket holders to buy a Bradford ticket to get a ticket for the semi-final.

Does anyone know what the attendance was last year?

My only concern with TS not being here is if the players need a lift at half time. Will Jimmy know what to say?

Hopefully TS will leave him a crib sheet failing that he could put him on speaker phone.

As discussed above, Smith is back for the game.

He was due to see a specialist today, fingers crossed for good news.

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