This thread is strictly no Clubcall moaning please.

Should be a great game on Thursday.

I can see a fired up Giants destroying a tired and ageing Wolves to set up a show down with the Rhino's

Simply need to get a good start and keep up the pace.

Warrington clearly fancy their chances too.

Time for Danny Brough to show he is the true man of steel this year.

Lunty needs to play the full 80 as neither Wood or Faiumu are quick enough at the play the ball

Looking forward to this one big time.

Can't really 'see' it but i will go there in hope as we are playing well and have to beat them sometime, also as their board has deemed us the 'easy route' to the final maybe their players might be a little bit complacent following recent games there.

I believe we have a very good chance and have learnt lessons from the defeats we've taken over there.
I will go full of genuine hope and confidence on Thursday.

Tired & ageing Wolves??? We're at peak form and had a week off. Hand on heart could you have lived with us last week when we best Leeds? It's silly quotes like this that come back to bite people on the bottom.
I think it will be a close game that could go either way with a possible 8 point margin.

Law of averages says Giants win on Thursday night for my money.

Of course what noone else has mentioned so far is although we have been beaten by wire this year we have had the opportunity to improve week on week since then, as we keep being told, its all about peaking at the end of the season....
Wire have had a week off after playing a below par Leeds whereas after being berated for giving our players a week of we have gathered momentum and after destroying hull who have had wires number all season confidence will be good.

Lunty should not be playing 80 for me. But 60 yes. Think it will depend on how taai shapes up as faiumu could well be needed as his replacement.
Weather forecast is showing light rain for the day but clearing up by evening. Lets hope conditions let us play our expansive game.
Leroy and Wardle are going to be our key players in attack I feel, our forwards key to defence.

Gutted I can't make this game because of work, already used all my Thursday favours up. Will be glued to my mobile for updates.

I think this will be a fiery game with one or two brawls. Players have nothing to lose, but go out and put it on the line. If we shake them up and get on top then we have a chance, if we freeze or wait to see what Wire do they will blow us off the pitch.

This is going to be a full blooded encounter, make no mistake.

One team's fan has different opinion to another team's fan - hardly surprising.

It's good to be confident and I feel a win coming on.

It's massive game and Wire will try and smash us off the park from the first whistle. They'll try and physically dominate us and, like Wigan, get under our skin. Briers will try and ref the game and we'll have to absorb all of that and bite back with more.

Controlled mongrel. Obstinate, controlled aggression. And the forwards must not yield. It's all about the forwards winning their battles and giving the backs a platform.

I would not disagree with those who have suggested replacing Fooey for Wood. It gives a bit of versatility although Fooey can be a bit sloopy with his DH passes at times. Lunt was excellent on Thursday and will hopefully play big minutes.

It's a huge game. The politics of the decision for Wire to play us is meaningless and not worth bickering over. All that matters is winning one more game. Then, on Friday, with luck and a fantastic performance (because that's what we'll have to produce), we may have one game left to play.

Sure is, and that's where I think we've had you in recent matches. Our pack makes lots of metres even when we can't finish off moves and have a high error rate. Normally up the middle they are very solid in defence too, but can of course have off days. Who knows what will happen on Thursday, but it should be a cracker.

Agree with that, except I think the politics of the decision is worth something and that's the extra motivation that may be the difference, people say it shouldn't make a difference, well in the real world it does, if someone said I wasn't as good as the next man at something I'd be extra determined to prove them wrong.

Source of motivation for the players; yes. Reason to talk trumped up smack on a message board; no.

I would start with Faiumu at hooker with his extra strength it will help us in the opening exchanges then bring Lunt on after 20 minutes.

We need to hold their pack and get in their faces early on . If they get on a roll we will struggle. If we pressurise and create some doubts we have a good chance.

The second paragraph is spot on but totally contradicts the first.

With Faiumu there is no go forward from the play the ball at all. Warrington would be on Giants before a pass was made. Lunty has to start. For me Faiumu brings little to the party and should be (as he was on Thursday) be left out of the 17.

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Played Wire 3 times and let em do to us what they wanted, what we haven't seen is that if we come out all guns blazing and aggression a plenty can they cope?

Hope it is a fiery affair cos we gonna be wound as tight as an elastic band and as Hull showed in Semi Final Wire don't like taking the treatment they dish out and Higham and Briers start throwing their arms up in air looking for penalties on every tackle.

Way to beat Wire is to out Wire em, bully em and they don't like it.

Have you seen warrington record against saints in super league? Up until 2010 in particular?

It might as well have been 1 win in a 100.

Or what about saints record in grand finals against leeds?

Bradfords record in finals against saints? 0 from 5 in the space of about 6 years.

Son, law of averages means sod all in sport.