I'm concerned about this one - Saints seemed to have flown under the radar despite hitting form;

Wigan 16 Saints 20

Hope I'm wrong.

+1

Wigan 28 16 Saints

1st try finch

Mom Sam

I'm confident going into this one

Wigan 32 Saints 18

I too am concerned with the feeling that Saints owe us one. It may be their turn to have a day in the sunshine after a few years of disappointment.

But having said that as Maguire constantly says, it is all about performance. If our boys perform as they can, we should win.

Saints 28
Wigan 24

Not feeling too confident about this one. Also we have never won a Challenge Cup Semi Final at the HJ Stadium

We'd never won a game at HJ until Maguire



IN MADGE WE TRUST!!!

If you just look at scorelines then there is no way that Wigan would beat Wire. They are handing out 50 point hammerings to half the SL. Saints have a bit of a role on and have Pryce back.

On the plus side the Wigan defence is the best in SL; its how teams react when every pass they throw or every break they make(sounds like a song) does not result in a try. Its also how they react when the other team will not give in. Wigans pack and defence to give them the edge. The fear factor when playing Saints has been taken away; a couple of years ago the thought of a game against the Saints was enough to put the team on the back foot.

Hopefully now it's the opposite and Saints are on the back foot before we begin. They've been soundly beaten a couple of times by Wigan recently including the Grand Final and then when they did turn up and play very well we pipped them in the last minute which must mentally be very tough.

On the plus side for Saints though as that they had a couple of big players missing in all those games and now they're back. That in itself should be enough to outweigh the fear factor of playing Wigan.

I'm just happy we can go into this game as favourites. 5 years ago I'd have settled for losing by less then 20 points against these men but things have changed.

I'd go with (fingers crossed):

Wigan 32
Saints 18

1st Try: George Carmont
M.O.M: Brett Finch

Wigan 18

Saints 25

1st Try - Puletua

MOM Roby

In all honesty, I don’t have a great feeling about this one but I never do against Saints, they are a quality team who can punish us. We just need to perform like we did against them at Widnes and we win though. Shutting down Roby again is the key. We know we can beat St Helens, we know how to beat St Helens, it’s just a matter of doing the business.

Predictions:

Wigan 22 – 18 St Helens

1st Try – Pat Richards
MOM – Sam Tomkins