May be just precautionary. I'm sure Saints still have niggling doubts over Makinson, Ritson and Batchelor. We're in for a cracker no matter who plays.

As the weather will be a major player in the semi as well as at Old Trafford, this good news from BBC Cricket (yes, Bongser is stuck at work)brightening up in Warrington and over towards Liverpool, so it's looking better coming into us...

Good luck, very much hoping you win.

In the wet conditions use the big boys. Fight fire with fire and put Ava and Big Ben on the bench.

Come on Leigh hang on

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... dium=email For a man trying not to sound bitter, Wellens appears to be failing quite spectacularly. Asiata appears to have mowed down the Saints team single handedly, by tackling big men round the legs. Several teams have deployed this technique against Walmsley and he goes down like a sack of spuds. Saints seem to be against anything that stops them being the dominant team in the league.

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/ru ... dium=email For a man trying not to sound bitter, Wellens appears to be failing quite spectacularly. Asiata appears to have mowed down the Saints team single handedly, by tackling big men round the legs. Several teams have deployed this technique against Walmsley and he goes down like a sack of spuds. Saints seem to be against anything that stops them being the dominant team in the league.

Bongser has just run Wellens' statement through Gobbledegoogle Translate which came out as:

"I am Paul Wellens. I took over as head coach of St Helens from the perennially successful Christian Woolf. As The Saints' hegemony crumbles in front of everyone's eyes, I would like to put on record that IT IS NOT MY FAULT!. It is everyone and everything else's fault and I feel sure that very few people from this suburb of Self-Pity-City will disagree."

Wellens or Wilkin - who's the biggest W?

Aw diddums Paul. Were we physically stronger than the Saints? Are we better coached? Get over it, you were beaten by a better team in every department. We repelled everything you threw at us and then hit you with 2 tries in 10 minutes. There was nothing wrong with the tackles. Asiata was going for the lower leg because the bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Taken from Twitter. He needs to stop crying along with all the saints fans.

Sky have the double-dealer whinging in the bottom right of this screen. Sound is off and will stay that way.

Admin (good evening, how are you? Well, Bongser trusts). Can we have a pernanant "Ignore" button for this loop garbage, pretty please?

The irony is that SkY try very hard to pretend that the Challenge Cup doesn't exist but as soon as this clown starts moaning about it (waving a pen as if he can form his letters), they are all over it like Hello! magazine.

Next week: Knit your own sour grapes!

Wellens should be fined for bringing the game into disrepute. Moaning Minnie he's nowt else.

https://twitter.com/sethbarnes3_/status ... 1803110401

https://twitter.com/sethbarnes3_/status ... 1803110401

Will a ban for John bring Wellens' players back? No.

Will it save Wellens' job? It shouldn't.

Have Saints got a massive extended squad? Yes, that's what it's for!

Wellens wasn't calling for a change to tackling technique here was he? https://twitter.com/DevlinDaryl/status/ ... 7519563779

Wellens wasn't calling for a change to tackling technique here was he? https://twitter.com/DevlinDaryl/status/ ... 7519563779