It's 3 games that can turn things around.
It's 3 games that can redefine the season.
It's 3 games of knock out Rugby.

Saints.
Wigan.
Catalan.

Go out there. Play your hearts out.
Go out there. You have nothing to lose.
Go out there. Who knows what will happen.

Yes. I'm under no illusions that this is a stupid post.
Yes. I'm under no illusions that this is the most outside chance of victory ever.
And yes. I'm under no illusions what our potential path is to the grand final and how formidable our opponents are.

But......

Stranger things have happened.

Only Leeds, saints and Wigan have won it from current superleague teams, we have a chance to guarantee that changes whether its us or not.

This is very much a free hit, zero expectations of getting through next week, massive bonus if we do.

Fly Steve Price back over for the first two games and if its catalans in the final put Powell back in charge for one night only. Absolute doddle

Seems an awful lot of effort just to make sure Vaughan is able to play in the first game of next season.

In the build up we'll get all these Churchillian speeches and hype that we are going to beat "the bottlers" from Saints.

Then after the game there will be loads of posts analysing why we are permanent also rans.

The reasons which will be discussed will include

4) In amongst all the poop being dumped on Karl Fitzpatrick, someone will bring up whizzy rascal.

5) If we had played Riley Dean as starting halfback from week 1, instead of farming him out on loan, we would have had a more successful season.

6) Some woke hippy will say "you guys are all too serious, most teams would love to be in our position, how many teams apart from Wigan, Saints and Leeds have won as much as us"

Tune in to this forum in a week's time for full discussion of these issues.

All true. And yet... it's sport. We could win...and then...

On the other hand SC , if we actually got to Old Trafford ,the forum would be deserted .

The big question is ,have we got 240 minutes of heart stopping rugby in the squad ?

….and once again, when we beat Saints, I won’t say I told you so to save your blushes so you can keep on liking those anti-Duckie posts.

(Although I do think Saturday will be the tightest and toughest of all the knockout wins)

You couldn't beat Saints when we had half a team missing earlier in the season or when we had four props missing the other week what makes you think you can on Saturday?

The 3 previous play-off semi wins, cup QF win and cup final win and the fact you’ve not beaten us in a knockout game for a LONG time….that’s what,

I’m sure you’ll be fair minded and lovely whatever the result.

I'm just glad its on C4 as I cant make it in time.

All runs come to a end

And all three of those semi final wins led to the same thing...a Grand Final defeat and another year of it not being your year.

Talking of a LONG time, 68 years without being Champions.

We've been Champions more times since 2019 than you lot have been in the entirety of your mediocre history.

History is a very funny thing, five grand final defeats in a row that's an interesting piece of history.

The fact that Saints fans like to look at the Super League period as a starting point of history, that's interesting, otherwise, their success looks mediocre compared to the crust munchers.

History is written on Saturday and the past counts for nothing and I'm hopeful it can be the start of a new era and we won't have to put up with the bleatings of the most ungracious winners in the history of Super League.

Saints had plenty of history pre 1996