As I work in Warrington, the first hour off work today, was me being subject to alot of ribbing from all the Wire and Saints fans. For some reason though a lot of the Wire fans seem certain that if the choice comes down to either us or Leeds, they will pick us. Personally I hope they do as this would provide us with extra motivation ......... thoughts?

I'd love a crack at Wire in the playoff semi...
If we can't beat them then fair enough, the better side will go through.

Much prefer to face them at an away game in a knockout scenario.
Backs against the wall is what we seem to like

Well i work in Stains so you can imagine the stick ive taken today!!!. Give us the scousers if we beat catalans, save the pedigree chum boys for the final

they CANT pick us.
top cant pick 2nd.

interesting though if last 4 are wire, stains, us and whinos...which is what i expect.

will wire choose saints at home, and send us to headingley, hoping they face a beat up wigan or whinos at OT?

You sure? I think losing to us means they can pick you. Our victory means we gain a week off and home advantage

Wire can pick Wigan. It's Saints we can't pick as they won the match yesterday and are guaranteed a home game next week.

doesn't really matter who they pick

a Wire team with 2 weeks off will comfortably beat Saints/Wigan/Leeds at home, of that I have no doubt

The week off can sometimes work against you though! Even though we desperately needed it !

Yes they can. If they cant pick us that would mean that they would have to pick leeds/hudds because Saints are guaranteed a home play-off after beating us. So that would hardly be a 'club call' would it?

Anyway we've got the big task of beating the only team we havent beaten this year or else were finished.

Dont count your chickens etc.

It would certainly make it interesting if we scrape through the Catalans game and Leeds pump Hudds (which I think they will BTW). Who do Wire choose, a confident in form Leeds or a potentially "battle weary" Wigan?

Has anyone read the comments regarding club call by Tony Smith in todays League Express? Arrogance has to be the blokes second name!!!

If we do scrape through against Catalans and Wire do pick us , it will be a short turn around as we will play Friday night!

If we do get past Catalans i hope Warrington do pick us. I would much rather lose to them in the semi than the final at OT If we won then the final would be there for the taking. Lets be honest though they wont, they will pick lowest ranked side end of imo.

I think Wire are more than confident enough to pick Leeds, regardless of their form if we beat Catalans.

The last thing Tony Smith will want is to cause any controversy given his opinions on the whole concept.

I think they'd most probably choose us tbh, If we win next week we will still be shattered etc and they will know we are there for the taking. Either way we are still their biggest threat so why not get us out the way early whilst we may be on the rack and let leeds/saints kick ten bells out of each other.