This i doubt highly. Expect more of the same, unless we get some major motivation it will be a quick and slightly less painful exit to 2012.

There's a very, very good chance that we will have to play at the DW 3 times in 4 weeks - for me it would be a monumental mistake to approach this weekend's game with any great degree of seriousness at all or expend any great amount of energy on trying to win it. We should be resting a few players on Friday and keeping Rush's brilliant tactical plan (pfff) under wraps and then using the 2nd game the week after as a more serious warm-up instead so we are then ready and raring to go with all guns blazing at whatever meagre hopes of producing a performance we have for the 3rd game. And then we can go to O/T and get torn to pieces by Warrington. Marvellous.

Of course nothing of the sort will happen and the exact same 17 will turn up for all 3 games playing exactly the same tactics and exactly the same 1-up football and get mullered in exactly the same way each game.

Full strength team for this game, if there is a possibilty of Wigan resting a couple and there is a sniff of winning , I would take it. That means we finish 3rd and play Wire, winnable.

I'm old school. Every Wigan v Saints game matters at any level (and any sport) I don't care if both teams field reserve sides, the result will always be in the history books.

for one i agree with rouges, never field a weak team especially against wigan, every game against our main rivals counts

We should send in the Hit Man Magennis again to wipe a few of there players out by hook or crook.
Thus picking up bans and we can afford to do without him in the playoffs

I can understand what some have said here, that they don’t want to go to the GF this time if it means to lose again. I feel the same, to lose in the playoffs and not get there, or have your ar*e kicked in a humiliating GF defeat. It’s not being a defeatist (well it is really) but if Wigan got there and lost badly I too would sooner not go. It’s all down to what degree of misery and when, it's just when your team isn’t playing well, but you always hope the next game may be the big turn round.

Lots! Could be a bit of genius in that game plan!

I don't think even Hock is stupid enough to fall for that...............





Then again?

Yes of course...we all know if we had to go away to Wire we would have no chance!! Not like we have been there and won this season, and we all know how good Warrington's record is against Saints (and in playoff games in general with their 2 playoff victories in 14 years) - lets hope we get smashed on Friday and have to pay Wigan again or we might as well not bother turning up week after

Let's get it straight - if Warrington eventually have to play us in the semi to get to O/T then it will be [uthem[/u who will be bricking it good and proper, not us...

Agreed. All the pressure is on Warrington this year. The Pies have one SL title in the bag so they're not under as much pressure to acheive. Now Warrington. That's a different story. For many this may be their last ever chance at winning this title. Who would want that kind of legacy pressure placed upon them in such high pressure games? It's why champions are decided in the playoffs and not during the regular season. In our sport, not only do you need to win on a regular basis to stay in contention, you also need to win when it matters. Best of both worlds.

Prediction : Wigan will be fired up, we won't be. Expect embarrassment.

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============ you wont get to the semis so your point is somewhat irrelevent

We shall see... The ridiculous over-confidence of Warrington fans after past experiences just never ceases to amaze me. Those who forget the past etc. I look forward to spraying schadenfreude all over the Wire forum in a few weeks' time

Quite a few Wire fans early in the season were quite confidence we would not finish in the top 4, so thats one prediction thats failed.

And many Saints fans predicted Wigan would finish below Saints. It's normal pre season bravado.

Albert Einstein - "Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."

Serious question, would you guys rather come to us in the play-offs? Or another trip to the pie dome? Personally i think we are in great form at the mo, i would see a play-off game against Wigan as more preferable to you lot?! Wigan havent been as good of late than they have been earlier on in the year......................On paper it looks to be a Wigan v. Wire final, but i am a believer of 'never write off the saints' , only team that could potentially 'gatecrash' peoples final predictions, Leeds are gone IMO....

Personally, i won't believe the Wire hype until we got to the final, il admit (as alot of my fellow fans should), we got carried away last year, and took Leeds lightly and got burnt, cant see Sir Tony allowing that again, but il believe it when i see it!!

Intrested on your thoughts?

I'd rather go to Wire anyday - you guys are way above any other team in the competition at the moment when you're on form and would slaughter us wholesale if you turned up, but you're prone to the odd slip especially in the playoffs and the pressure will be on you big style to deliver in the semi - if we were somehow to score a couple of quick tries at your gaff for instance then I reckon your crowd would get on the team's back very, very early and extremely vociferously and panic could set in as it has many times in the past. With Wigan you pretty much know exactly what you're going to get every game however and even if they don't play well on the day then they'll still have enough to beat us more times than not.

Long story short - we've a better chance of both winning and being slaughtered at Wire than we have at Wigan where we'll probably just tamely lose by 8-10 points or something.

Prob my last post on here for certain reasons (I'm sure bewareofshadows will explain)

So for what is prob my last post:

Come on you saints! Come on you saints!

It's been emotional lol

Surely not banned for joining forces with Saddened! as there is room for only one such personality on these boards?

I think (well, hope) we'll throw a spanner in the works with the club call.

Thick as a plank that Einstein. Did he never toss a coin/roll a die?