Is the squad announcement today?

I can't keep up with games being on a Thursday. Totally ruined my fantasy team selections.

Yeah today at 2pm.

I shall check back then.

Ref: R Silverwood
Vid Ref: B Thaler
Touch J: R Hicks
Touch J: J Cobb

Silverdud. That means half an hour per tackle, head high shots galore and a free reign with off side.

You,ve forgot to mention the imaginary ball steal and strip in the tackle and the compulsory couple of forward passes.

Silverdud is the equaliser for them in the slight advantage we had

Agreed. We have to start strongly and lay a marker down from the off. Line speed in defence has to be at its best and our kicking game has to pin them in their own 20 early in the sets. Its not going to be rocket science, seeing as this will be Catalans third tough away game on the bounce, with the amount of effort they are putting in coupled with the travelling, our week off last week must surely work in our favour.

The worry is that often the team who have had the week off start slowly and we cant let that happen. If we let them get into an early lead, their tails will be up and they could play the rest of the game on emotion. Kill them off with a couple of early tries and mentally, that will be a tough hole to pull themselves out of after the last 2 games.

I'd still much rather lose this game gracefully than get to the Final. I can't face another trip to OT and seeing them lose to Wigan, or especially Warrington.

Just think if we reach the final and go on to win, do you really want to chance missing that.

Save your money and watch it on Sky then.

But as roader says, a fan as committed as I cannot do such a thing. I've been to 91% of Saints games since 1984, we actually worked that out recently when we were reminiscing about my old man. I can't just not go to a final.. I suppose with such utterly low expectations I can't really be let down at OT. Oh for Walsh and Burns now

Careful, anyone could mistake that for optimism for next year!

Come on Saddened, Super Lance & the hotstepper JT are gonna lead us to glory!

I've mentioned previously that we should be ready for a war, especially after the damp squib of the last game. If we can perform like we did against Cas for the full 80 we will win comfortably, but it's going to be far more difficult to do so this time around. That said we are the much fresher team and Catalans have had by far the harder route to this point.

Wellens
Makinson Percival Jones Swift
Hohaia Flanaghan
Amor Roby Masoe
LMS Thompson
Turner

Soliola Manu Walmsley Richards

Happy with that!

Late prediction - Saints by 16

Doing just enough for at the moment. Feel like we could of blitzed them and didn't ... Frustrating so far...

Ps. Nathan, don't ever drop Swift for Dawson ever again...

As a neutral the most biased game refereeing I have ever seen towards Saints it's obvious they don't want Catalans in the GF .Even SKY picked upon this .

Well done Saints on making the final, but I did not enjoy watching that game one bit. Silverwood trending on twitter, the most bias and awful decisions. Catalan deserve and apology from Silverwood. Well done though on reaching the final just wish it was a proper contest. Silverwood man of the match

It was embarrassingly poor tonight, Silverwood should be dropped from a great height but will probably get the GF.

well done Saints....poor crowd though.

Well there was no way I was going to be able to get there tonight, then take out all the families who have a school day tomorrow.

Thursdays are just crowd killers.

Ask any club whether they would rather play Thursday or Friday/Sat/Sun and the chairman will opt for any other day but Thursday as the income gets killed.

nearly 9k in a playoff aginst Cats? thats pretty good IMO

Probably would have been 10k + if it was played on a weekend, Thursday night superleague is a bummer for a lot of fans. I blame the Wire fans they said they were going to turn up in numbers to support the cats.