Benefit of the doubt not required thank you, although I have thought about it and I stick by my original post, for 2 reasons, 1 been having watched the game back on tv, it really wasn’t that intense, 2 we lost, majority of poor performances after been in a so called energy, mental zapping game, Is from been on the booze a couple of days celebrating. If your theory was correct, surely no team would be able to string a few quality performances together in a row

Even tougher for us this time round.

Wigan won in a canter against Wakey a week last Thursday.

We won a very tight contest at Leeds three days later, no doubt had an intense weeks build up to the semi, anybody who thought it wasn't intense should sit closer to the touchline !!

Be tremendous if we can beat the pies, 6 points clear with 5 left but not disastrous if we don't. Then we can lick wounds and go all out in the last 5. I thought Savelio had broken his foot ? IF we let two go out to KR which looks like common sense, will that free up enough cap space to bring someone in for the back end ??

This is a pivotal game if we have any chance of achieving 2nd and with it the home game against Wire in the playoffs.

I don't think a loss would hurt our chances of 3rd too much as we have a run of 3 games against weaker teams after this.

With Wire having the distraction of the CC final coming up I'm still optimistic we can steal 2nd and maybe, just maybe get that elusive Grand Final place.

It’d be interesting to see how many times the same 17 players backed up a 5 day turn around for Saints and won both games.

Teams often complain the week off is actually a inconvenience. Anyway it’s only my opinion, but I’ll be disappointed if we can’t put an effort in Thursday night.

It will be interesting to see how the game pans out.

If it's nip and tuck until the last 15 minutes then we run out of steam then yes, that can be blamed on fatigue and the short turnaround.

I just hope the players show up and make a game out of it and don't go into the game thinking they're tired resulting in another hiding.

Why is it rubbish , we didn’t play that well, Warrington’s intensity was much higher than ours , we did well to stay in the game. Our intensity in defence was poor. I guess we’ll see Thursday night, but I reckon we will and should go ok

I have no doubt they will put the effort in, but when Wigan appear to be much fresher in the last quarter, I anticipate we will make a lot of errors and be out of position due to being knackered.

Well we best make sure we are 20 in front going into the last quarter, against a poor but fresher Wigan team at home

Your are right
Hull will lose heavily to Wigan and Warrington will get beaten at Catalan

Saints play a different style to us
They use the ball more across the backline to create the space rather than just cart the ball up the middle for 5 tackles.
This has two effects
much less work for their forwards
move the opposition around a lot more draining energy

similar style to how Castleford played when they were runaway league winners

Thats why to me it would seem stupid of the coach not to use Hadley,Green and Litten and possibly give one of the fringe props like Brown a run.
I would have Hadley at loose forward for Westerman who is just going through the motions at the moment and a good time to give Danny Houghton a break.
I guess Masi is not match fit but whats happening with Levy and Bienek?

In your opinion, what makes Wigan a poor team? They are on a great run at the moment.