Quote Cruncher="Cruncher"It's possible that old St Helens big game hoodoo could kick in again, but I can't see it.
The amount of whining coming over the bump last year, when they were nowhere near as good as they are this year, would be drowned out massively if they were to reach two finals in 2019 and lose BOTH of them. It would be ridiculous by almost any standards, let alone for a team of such quality.
The other thing is, I have a concern that Salford are being a bit too cocky. A couple of Salford fans I know are really confident they are going to win. I'm not sure where this stems from, but I'm seeing it replicated on Twitter as well. If it's the same story in the Salford camp, they are in for a big wake-up call. Reminds me of us in '84, when just getting to Wembley was such an achievement that realism fled the scene. We rolled up at the Twin Towers in our noisy thousands, and were taught a savage lesson by a team who were treating it as an actual match rather than a carnival.'"
If Salford have any chance of winning they will have to withstand the early onslaught from Saints that is going to come at them. Saints will be very fresh and ready to go and will throw everything at them from the kick off in the hope of draining Salford so badly that they cant recover. It remains to be seen if Salford can withstand that early onslaught, i certainly cant see it but if they can get through it and force some Saints errors then you could see Saints start to panic out of fear of losing 2 finals. I just dont see it and i think Saints will win fairly easily.
As i said last week, im just glad its not us that are facing Saints tonight. At least we wont have the double gloating of them being champions and beating us in a final.
