Saints because Leeds have been GF winners for the last 3 years for a reason! Plus would I rather get beat by Saints at OT or KR... KR everytime coz I've got used to it now!!

Why is it bottle? Leeds have just beat (statistcly) the best team in the competition on their own ground. Leeds are also (statistcly) play off specialists. Write Leeds off all you like, but the added spice of a backside slapping at Wembley might just spur them on to another winners ring.

It just has the added bonus of my personal vendetta against St Helens, I'll make no apologies, but i f*cking hate Saints!

We have no say in the matter, so pointless thread. You just want us to say we'd rather go to Headingly.

I'll take one for the team..."We'd rather play Leeds because St Helens are soooooo good!"

Now jack off back to your own board nugget.

I'll go where Saints send us. Not fussed either way. It's more of a question of who YOU want to face, not who WE want to face.

It made sense to me.

Saints.

I'll be happy if we are one of Saints options regardless of their choice.

Correct, that's all that matters

How are your injuries - were the Higham and Hicks absences short term (can't remember the reasons)?

Not to me. I'll be absolutely gutted if we're an option and Saints don't choose us. For that reason alone I want Wigan to win on Friday as I would expect Saints to choose the lowest ranked team which from those currently remaining is Hull KR.

I'm not saying we will definitely win the last game at Knowsley Road (in fact they'll be odds-on for very obvious reasons) but I'm absolutely desperate for the opportunity to attempt to.

Should have ended my post with "to me".

I always say a weekly round loss to Saints means nothing if we end up with a trophy at the end of the season.

Which sounds better? Beating the defending champions to reach a grand final, or beating the defending runners up?

I would hope Saints would pick us. Get one more crack them and to break this stupid hoodoo infront of there own fans plus there's a bonus of knocking them out of the play offs on there own turf

how ever i know people are saying Leeds will be the easiest but after watching them last night im really not sure.

But like i said i would play Saints, if we get beat again then we get beat if its a win its a bonus but the one thing i will not like is if we get them in the final and they beat us, we wont hear the last of it from them.


But we have to get past Huddersfield first.

We'll play Saints if we beat Hudds
we'll beat Saints then beat Wigan in the final.

Saints. Next.

Saints. One win there in the final game would wipe away every pain from previous losses. A defeat would just feel like it normally does, win win situation.

Pretty much my assumption. If we and Wigan do the business this weekend, I'd be quite surprised if they picked Wigan. Considering, 1. Wigan finished above us in the league and 2. Our ridiculously poor record against them.

talk about confidence, id be happy to beat udders 1st!!!

I've filed any plans I had to go up to Old Trafford to watch Wire in the GF under 'highly unlikely' after this weekend.

Should we beat Hudds, then Leeds or Saints away will be too much, I fear. I would have fancied us to turn Wigan over had they got through and picked us, but now, I believe, we're not going to the GF.

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expect nothing, anything more is better

And there is the Warrington motto in a nutshell. No wonder we were dog dirt for 20 years

It would look well down the side of next years shirts.

'Specto nusquam, quisquam magis est melior'.

I would cry if Saints picked us, that answer your question

Lol its got more meaning than a wolf does not bite a wolf

read the initial question.

Asssuming that we beat Huddersfield, which will be very tough, then I think that Saints would be very likely to pick us in the semis. The only two possible scenarios in which I can envisage Saints not picking us would be:

1) Hull KR turn Wigan over. Surely Saints would choose Rovers over us if things panned out like that?
2) Wigan squeak past Hull KR in unconvincing fashion whilst we give Huddersfield another Challenge Cup Round 5 special and Saints therefore think that Wigan have "gone" whilst we look back to top form.

In the bigger picture, would Saints also like to avoid meeting Leeds at Old Trafford, you know, because they've nobbed them there the last 3 years as well as knocking them out of the semi of this year's Challenge Cup? By that logic, Saints might fancy giving Leeds a tie that they're more likely to lose, which after the Challenge Cup final, would be us. They take care of business against Wigan/Hull KR, hope that we dump Leeds out then they get a bye in the final.

Going to Headingley would be very, very tough though and I'm not sure we'd come through that anyway.

I'm resigned to Wires not lifting the trophy this season, so my default setting is anyone but Saints. Alas, I fear that they're nailed on to win it this time. The try that never should have been v Crusaders, the last second Cunningham try v Cas and the unbelievable Wellens try against us on Friday just serve to underline that for me.