will be a tough game.

Have to say, really pleased to get the win, but expect that you will win comfortably against us. Great pay day though.

Play like last night and its season over.

Stuck 40 on them in June but this is playoff rugby and our record is awful, be interesting to see what we can do, not confident at all.

Huddersfield have been a shambles.....Like Friday night, the game has been an embarrassment to the play-off system and all its hype.

Difficult to tell what sort of challenge Hull will put up on the evidence of this match - Even at our worst, we'll be nowhere as bad as Huddersfield have been.

Hull obviously have talent within their ranks, but I'd be miffed if we went out to them....I've often rejected the tag as play-off bottlers, but if we lose to Hull, I will happily accept any accusation that opposition fans throw at us.

hull are a decent team who can be a match for any team and they easily overcame a clueless huddersfield..be a toughy next week but given what we have in our squad im confident we`ll get thru..its the week after that i have concerns about

not expecting a win next week but we (fc) won't have the pressure of our own fans, press and tv expecting a win! pressure will be on warrington, not fc

This could be a big factor I think, most Hull fans are happy with a 6th place finish and a playoff win, as this season is a 'transition' year and Gentle hasn't brought his own signings in yet. Therefore anything that happens now is a bonus, and the players can just go out and play with little pressure.

Hull are decent and I think injuries (a ridiculous amount for a good while) aside they could have finished around third or fourth.

It will be a tough game. We must not once think about Saint Helens, Langtree Park, Old Trafford or the Super League trophy. There is only one thing we must think about for the next six days and that is Wire v Hull.

We must play with a determination, cut out the mistakes that have plagued our season and take what we learnt from a select amount of high pressure games that we've played well in and won (Wigan home and away, Saints away, Huddersfield semi-final and Leeds final) and get this very tough job done.

Going to be a good one! think we will have to keep the ball alive, to increase our attacking options, when this works we have a great chance if it goes wrong and we turn the ball over through knock-ons and the like we will get thumped. But like a previous poster said, you have all the pressure.

There are 3 future Saints players playing for Hull. Foster, Turner, Manu.

I'm sure all us Saints fans will be wishing them well with their future endevours

What's the verdict on the Bens and Carvell?

Every word (especially the soubriquet "play-off bottlers"icon_wink.gif.
Apart from I wouldn't be miffed if we went out to Hull. My emotions may be a tad stronger.

The decline of Huddersfield, is more than a little alarming. It's bloody frightening, and show's a weakness in our league, with no real "successor" to take their place in the SL standings.
At the mo, I'd expext Fev to beat them

on superleague full time tonight it said all 3 will play next week

Expect a reaction from our boys, they'll want to right wrongs, think London then Wembley.

I hope so because we'll need them against Hull's forwards. If we're missing these three, then there is the potential for the likes of Watts and Lynch to dominate our pack. Even more important is that Westwood is back to defend against Willie Manu on our right edge defence.

Hull are a quality side, and they will be inspired by a vociferous away following. Nevertheless I expect a much improved performance, and as long as our forwards match their, then the quality of Briers and Hodgson should see us through.

Prediction: Wire by 12

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well not expecting a win, but we are clearly a side in form scoring 150 points in 3 games and conceding 22. added to this is a lack of pressure as the away and lower placed side and no new injuries (for one of the few times this season), and it should be a close game. be better for us if westwood isn't fully fit and i think carvell will be out, and possibly hodgson.

Also not expecting to win, but hope we can come across and be competitive. Wire go in as favourites and rightly so, there is no way they can play as badly as they did agaisnt Saints and I'm sure they will come out all guns blazing. If we can keep you at bay for the first 20 minutes we have a good chance of producing an upset.

Brings back bad memories, us having Hull at home in the playoffs.

I still think my number 1 most disappointing moment as a Wire fan wasn't even last year against Leeds, it was in 2005 when we had Andrew Johns and lost to Hull in the first playoff at home. Hull then went and got smashed by 70 odd at Bradford the next week so it was a waste of time them going through!

Didn't Hull have a man sent off early on in that Bradford match though?

Kearney tired to decapitate Peacock.Iir.

I'm just hoping for a good game and for the ref to be invisible throughout.not much hope of that if I'm honest.

Anbody but Leeds or Saints in the final bored of them now.

that really was very disappointing....the hype around Johns had me believing we could go all the way....it made me totally forget that our pack contained the likes of Paul Noone.

It was Stuart Fielden actually, and having previously seen Jason Smith miss 6 months after Fielden raised his knee in a tackle Smith was attempting, shattering Smith's sternum, I didn't blame Kearney for the high tackle. Fielden was banned for two games, I bet Jason Smith felt happy with that after his season ending injury.

Anyway, back on topic.

Hope it's a good game and we manage to be competitive throughout. Wire have class all over the park but I think Hull's pack can more than match their's which hopefully will mean we have a chance out wide. There will certainly be a big Hull following so it should be a belting atmosphere.

See you lot on Saturday.

can see an embarrassingly low crowd on saturday. Only about 7500 home fans could be bothered to turn out last week.

It will be a decent crowd - I for one would like to run the rule over Smith's next club.