The funny thing is if we do lose on Thursday we will have fans of all and sundry on here saying what a disaster of a season etc etc,
if you asked any of them at the start of the season if winning LLS, knocking Leeds out of CC To reach QF and a GF semi appearance would be a good season most would probably say yes!

You're probably right but a few things are going on here.

1. Everybody likes to reckon they are underdogs. Leeds say every year "nobody gave us a chance, everybody wrote us off, we shocked Super League".

2. At this stage of the season everybody reckons they will win and the other clubs won't. I'm sure if you ask most Wigan or Leeds fans if they think Warrington will win the Grand Final they will struggle to suppress a giggle and say "yep...it's always the Wire's year....just like the last one"

3. Because Hudds haven't won a major trophy in a long time probably fans of the other clubs think Hudds are a good team on a good run, rather than a great team. Meast is right about people expecting Hudds bubble to have burst midway through the season, because that's what they've seen in the recent past. They've also seen Hudds have a good playoff win (like when you blitzed us at the HJ in 2010) and then not been able to back it up by going all the way. So its always hard for people outside the club to imagine you doing it in the way that, if Warrington win, people will not believe we can go on and win the big one as we haven't done it yet.

I doubt there will be complacency though from anybody, although if Hudds win I bet the media brings up the complacency card because the implication will be if Warrington had taken the game seriously we would have won and Hudds were only in the GF because of us being complacent.

They will SC but they haev to sell a story, so make more of minor stuff and blow it up into a story.

Apparantly according to some fans winning the LLS means nothing and they would have won it, if it meant anything.

The wins against Leeds and Wigan during the season mean nothing as it's a different competition in the play offs, yet we have people from Warrington saying we picked Huddersfield because of our record against them 3 wins out of 3, yet the former 2 clubs fans say it means nothing.

Apparantly we have a team of no stars, and Warrington have the best team in the land and their players are all better than ours, but one could say Carvell and Morley are past it and will soon be on the road to the back pasture, Hodgson, Myler and Waterhouse are coming back from injury and could break down, M Monas too with his dodgy knees, Hill been hyped up on his form from last season, this season he's been good but not like last season. Riley prone to mistakes, knock ons and poor choices when under pressure, Briers with his petulance , very lucky to stay on the pitch in his last match, a repeat of that and he could be off. Many things can happen during a game, and people are very confident of writing us off.

In fact all season we've had the same arguments that we will fall off the wagon, bubble will burst, we're a flash in the pan, fact is we're here, we're competing and if we do beat you in your backyard, we will have such a boost of confidence we may just go a step further.

Not a cat in hells chance.

Nope, never in a million years.

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Oops mummy should keep you off the apple juice in the mornings

Yeah right.

That. for the uninformed, is two positives making a negative.

Two positives make a positive.

Two negatives make a positive
and there is imaginary mathematics which is based on the entire philosophy of i[squared] = -1

Nice one pal

Not from me though since the league was decided I've put acknowledgement of this in my sig.

Hudds fans had a banner saying Well Done Wire when you came to play us in the playoffs in 2011 after we were League Champions so I am happy to acknowledge also who the League Champions of 2013 are.

Like it or not you can't make honours up, finishing top of the regular rounds does not make you league champions

Looks like a long night in the offing here (hope I'm wrong).

That intercept was much needed there and will hopefully turn the tide now with the Brough try.

Complacency justified.
Finishing top means feck all in play offs....ask Leeds
Maybe you'll save something next year for when it matters.
Enjoy the hub cap

Great game, not much between the two for mine, some better calls from the ref and you could have been in the GF, I would be proud of my team tonight if I was a giant.