Since they beat us, Hull have been abysmal - you could argue they played well above their weight against us and, of course they are capable of doing it again but I don't think lightning will strike twice.

They were garbage v Catalans on Saturday, and only a woeful knock-on-a-thon display by the French, complete with another display of lazyitis by good old Leon kept them in the game and the cup.

Warrington, on the other hand were imperious on Sunday, and probably did the decent thing in clocking off 10 minutes early and saving a few blushes.

Honestly expect us to win. I was iffy going into the Quarter, then I thought Hudds desire would perhaps see them home, but for all the will in the world we still blew them off the park. I feel we could well do the same to Hull.

you need to watch the game again, the hull defence was excellent and catalan had only 1 chance in the second half despite a load of possession. that said we coughed up a lot of ball as did catalan, and there were issues with the humidity making the ball slippery. our attack was limited but we took most of our chances, a classic away performance really. one things for sure if we cough up a lot of ball against you and give you field position we will lose. holdsworth will be back for us and he'll make a difference to our overall play. my other worry is how our forwards will match up, we have been poor in this area recently but against catalan there were signs of improvement

Everyone knows that Warrington are the favourites in this game. However, we've already beaten you once this season and so won't count ourselves out of it just yet.

When we beat you earlier in the season it was due to some fantastically tough tacking and a great kicking game by Holdsworth which kept you pinned back. If we want to be in with a chance of winning then we again need to be on the top of our game. It's a one-off match so anything could happen.

Hopefully there aren't any serious injuries in this weekend's SL fixtures so that both teams are at as close to full strength as possible for the semi final.

Wouldn't be surprised to see an odd Warrington team this weekend to avoid possibility of injuries - no Atkins obviously, no Myler, I wouldn't be shocked if Hodgson, Ratchford, Joel, Waterhouse were all missing. Bring in Williams, Harrison (played for Swinton?), McCarthy, Laithwaite...

Not quite true, we also beat Hull Kr and Leeds after you. Catalan was the turning point. Since then we've had 3 narrow losses. 9 points being the total difference in those three games. At one point this season we were on fire, playing with confidence and being expansive with the right edge of crooks and Lineham in sensational form. If you play like you did against the Giants and we play like we did against Leeds, its going to be an epic game. Whoever wins I fancy to lift the trophy, may the best team win.

The obvious choice for a rest in the Halves is Lee, but Ratch has played nearly every game this year. Lee has not long come back from injury so he may not get a rest. Can we recall GOB back from Saints? Would TS consider resting both Lee & Stefan & put Bridge & Grix in the halves? We couldn't put Monas M in the halves because that would mean no interchange for Higham. Trent played some big minutes on Sunday & I thought at the time is he playing 70 minutes & then getting a rest against Rovers.

With Myler & Ryan both injured & GOB at Saints I can see TS having to play Ratch, Lee & Brett. With Tyrone, Ben H, & Big Riley resting the forwards. Before last seasons Semi we rested some players against Salford & got tonked, but last year we were clear 2nd and could 'afford' to lose the 2 points but this season we need every point we can get to finish 2nd .

Hodgson
Williams
Bridge
Grix
Riley
Lee
Ratch
Woody
Monas M (to do 60 minutes giving Mickey H a rest of sorts)
Moz
Ben H
Coops
Ben Currie

Carvell
Big Riley
Mickey H
Tyrone


To be rested
Hilly
Monas J
Trent
Super Ben

Is 2nd that important in the big scheme of things? As long as you're top 4 I would have thought the rest was irrelevant.

Will be interesting to see the team selection, We tend to gauge Wire games on the Briers factor, he plays we lose, he doesn't we win. No doubt that statement will be proved wrong one way or another this weekend

Ben Currie getting a rest as well Russ?!!!!!!!!!!!

Both semi's will be great occasions, I fancy London in the other, Soward is a proven matchwinner

Opps, not had a drink either so no excuses.


I've put Ben in at 13. Where hopefully he will play for the P & B for the next 10 + years

I think top 2 is very very important. I know what you will say about Leeds being 5th for 2 years on the trot. But in the history of Super League apart from Leeds, only Bradford have won the G/F from outside the top 2

Hull are the best visiting side I've seen this season.

fc will turn up in big numbers hope you do too

Hull were excellent at our place and beat us hands down. If we play to something approaching our best however we'll win the game. We have better players and are better coached, regardless of the gnashing of teeth that took place after that loss.

Us and Wigan couldn't sell out the 2009 semi, which was played on a Saturday afternoon in a stadium with a capacity roughly half that of Huddersfield's, in a town no more than ten miles from either Warrington or Wigan.

There's not a chance this will sell out, and it wouldn't no matter when it was played. It will be well attended though. I reckon about 13-14,000 which is hardly a bad crowd.

Grix is top of my list for a rest, but unfortunately I don't see it happening. He has already played 23 games for us and has only missed the Keighley match and Exiles weekend. With the injuries to the 3/4's, he is a key man.

I am not sure how adventurous TS will be with his team selection. He will definitely wan't the points as we are only a couple away from Wigan, so my guess would be two of Tyke, Harrison and Laithwaite to come in and two of Woody, Waterhouse and Westwood to have a rest. But who knows.

I think I will get the bus up for this next Saturday, mainly to see Soward.

I wouldn't rest Westwood as I feel he is now hitting his best form after a slow start to the season by his standards.

Completely agree with this. Back to his best for the business end of the season. Also great to see a good performance from Bridge on Sunday.

I can't see M Monaghan playing, we need him for the bench against FC and he can't string 2 games together usually. Dwyer is back from his loan deal now so I think he might play.

Agree, with Ryan out we need Bridge to turn up for us and he's not disappointed. Even though we could play Ratchford there it's a bit of a waste of his talents to be at centre. I think Bridge sometimes gets underrated, but he's a really good combative player who never takes a backward step.

Wigan couldn't sell it out, we sold our allocation, then several lots more, then some tickets we got off Wigan, then we started buying them directly from Wigan, hence lots of warrington fans in their sections.

when it kicked off a good 70% of the crowd that day was wire... with 5 mins to go it was 100% wire

10 minutes to go. It was 109% wire with 5 mins to go, and that's not even possible.