Do you mean Field Marshall French? If so I’m confident we WILL be able to stop him.

Hope this is rhetorical, because I don't know, just saying what I see.

You can guarantee the likes of old man Farrell will play a blinder. They're not a three man team. We all know they'll raise their game. I don't think we'll have enough grit to get past them. I hope I'm wrong!

A quick defensive line stifles our go-forward which is exactly how Wigan and Saints and, to a degree Hull, got over us...........

That and our god-awful defense!!

Wigan have also gone backwards since we played them.

They will be up and in our faces from minute one and be very aggressive defensively with Marshall / Miski / Wardle / King making good yards when they are in possession. If we stand a chance we are going to have to find a better way of controlling the ruck on both sides of the ball vs the last time we played them.

Funny how often Farrell gets his armpit snagged round the ball after making a tackle. Or ends up on the wrong side and has to do a slow motion hurdle over the tackled player to get back to marker. Really unlucky that.

I hope DP and the boys know that it’s going to be much cooler on Sunday and raining!

Should be training in an air conditioned environment set to about 20 degrees with the sprinklers on!

Thaler video ref, more try’s disallowed?

Gotta get over try line 1st... anyone know how many tickets we've sold for this game

Heard its around 2k.

If only our players could show such nous as to do the same ...

Hate to sound like Jon WilkinS but I agree. If others do it, why don't we?

Did you enjoy watching Charnley trapping opposition players in the tackle?

Good question. Difference is Farrell is successful with it

My mother always said do to them as others do to you..makes sense if there willing to bend the rules you do it

No, but we did make a CC final and GF around that time. Not saying there's a direct correlation before anyone starts, but it would seem playing a bit more 'grubby' got results, as it seems to do for recent GF and CC Final winners (Stains and Wigan).

Let’s hope this game is better than the two QF’s played today.

Got to say I really dislike the CC semi draw being at half time of our match. I can easily it affecting our attitude (more so than Wigans imo) as I think we are mentally frail and too many of our squad will be thinking of the semi before doing the graft against Wigan. We could easily get pummelled.

Just my 'feel' - but based on watching us over the last 'n' years.

I'm not a fan of the draw being at half time either, but I'm looking forward to this game today. People talking about us being fragile, when Wigan have been comfortably beaten in their last two games, can hide behind the settee all afternoon if they want. I'm off to the match.

Have you not noticed our habit of having a forward stand in front of the play the ball on the last tackle to “protect” the kicker?

Does anyone know if you can pay on gate today?

Confident then? Good for you.

Whilst not a cash turnstile you can normally buy a ticket from the ticket office prematch.

Don’t know how you'd check other than t'internet or ringing you know where but can't see it being different today