I don't get this logic when bashing the play-offs as stupid or unfair. We get people complaining that the League Leaders Shield should be given more prestige because the winners have come out on top after a 27 game season, but then Catalan are perceived as 'the easier fixture' after finishing a place ahead of St Helens. How can that be? Yes, in this instance Catalan would have a tiring trip to Warrington whilst we end up with a hotly-contested derby fixture, but there's no play-off structure that can mitigate against that. You can't argue with the league table.

For me, given that we possibly face a three-game series against Saints with only the last one really counting for anything, I'd rather get the inevitable defeat out of the way in this week's dead rubber - but then that would probably leave us not facing them in the play-offs until the final, should we both get there. If we go 4-0 up for the season against them on Friday, I'm not sure I'd fancy our chances the following week in the first round play-off. Surely Saints couldn't screw a fixture up five times in a row?

Need to get momentum built and get back into the mind set of winning - if not I fear we don't have a hope in hell of getting to OT

It's Saints, beat them this week, beat them next week, beat them every bl**dy time we play them for God's sake !!!!

Oh yessss



If we were playing them at tiddlywinks I would want us to beat them.

None of the poll options.

We are Wigan, they are Stains, even if this was a pre-season 'friendly', they must be outplayed and beaten.

So, the top one then?