Indeed.

I'd send Stains back to Wire (or vice-versa) for a hum-dinger of a semi final every day of the week!!!

why? We've had 3 easy wins against Saints and would have made it 4 but for MM's sending off, whereas Leeds have shown they can beat us.

catalan might have a say in whether or not leeds are in the shake up..providing leeds managed to beat an in form Wakey

I'd imagine that with it being a semi final that the Saints players wouldn't need too much motivation anyway, but then picking them ahead of a team that finished 5th could be the extra that they needed to beat us. Why do their team talk?

I'm not saying they would beat us because I don't think they would, but it's setting yourself up for an almighty fall imo. Unless there are mitigating circumstances such as injuries (and even then I'd be sceptical) I would always opt for the lowest ranked club.

True, it's just my personal feeling that I'd be a lot less confident of beating Leeds. Long way to go yet, though, there might well be an upset or two in the next games.

If we play to our potential then as May and June showed, we'll beat anyone.

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its sept--you wont

Looking forward to all the matches and hope there are no run away victories in the games this weekend - we enjoyed ours last night but in fairness nobody else did as one sided victories are only ever good for one side and in the play off's they should all really be close games and need to be to make it interesting for everyone else. Much as I always want to beat Saints my heart says I hope they do turn Wire over tonight as it will be interesting to see if Smith's squad rotation is all it is cracked up to be however my head says Wire will win comfortably. Jury still out on Wakefield v Leeds and Hull v Huddersfield but certainly looks like some good viewing this weekend

It will be great to sit back and enjoy every bone crunching tackle. It would be nice to see a few punch-ups too so I can laugh at the following RFL’s lack of action.

Personally can see them playing each other twice in the play offs, as can't see us picking either in club call even if we have had the beating of Saints in 3 of 4 games so far. I think Saints are capable of beating them once and after the two performances we've had against Wire so far I'd rather see a Wire win tonight then send Saints to the HJ in week 3 and then there be a Saints win. Can see us beating Saints at Old Trafford but not as optomistic about Wire.

Saying that though despite our performances vs Wire in the league when we played them in the cup last year we beat them, so maybe I should be abit more optomistic about our chance vs Wire in a knock out game.