For the first time in years im really confident this week. Im loving it on the other board when they are saying things like "Wigan are beatable"







Its a fantastic place to be at the min.

We are beatable though. No team is unbeatable. Especially in a semi-final.

Not confident.
I never usually am but was immensely before the QF.

Dont like my feeling this week though

Reasonably confident. But it's gonna be close that's for sure.

We are beatable. But its nice for other teams to be talking about us like this.

I see what you mean now. It is a good feeling.

Not confident at all.

Something just doesn't feel right. I'm guessing it's the feeling of being favourites against a very good and injury free(ish) Saints side.

Hope I'm wrong.

I was quietly confident going into the Wire game. Have a slight feeling of unease going into this game.

One thing that does fill me with confidence though is our big game mentality this year and the desire this team seems to have to get Madge to Wembley.

Indeed, I'm never confident going into a derby!

Nope.i cant shift the feeling that were going to come away from this semi the same as we did our last two.

I thought we would get beat by wire.

I am very unsure about this one. One second I am feeling confident and the next I am scared!

This is how I feel too

we have that 20-30 minute spell in a game where we seem to lose the plot and other teams put points on us, this always coincides with Tommy Going off and MM coming on, he got no go forward what so ever, if Saints ship enough points in during MM's time on the pitch, then we will lose

I am confident but still have a slight uneasy feeling about it. I have no doubt that if we play to our potential we will win, but, as others have said, it seems they are due a win against us and with Pryce firing for them they do have a good chance.

However, it might just be me but I don't think their defence is good enough, they've conceded over a 100 more points than us in the league and conceded 26 at a weakened Castleford side on Sunday. We all know, when we turn up with the right attitude to defend we are a very difficult side to break down, so hopefully we turn up and see a similar performance to the away tie at Widnes or Wire a few weeks ago. We never really struggle to score points and managed to make the Wire defence look very ordinary and nearly score a half century.

I do think we'll win as our forwards are really playing well and with Perry and Magennis out, I think we should have enough to beat them in the forwards.

I said that we would beat Wire 38-16 because I was confident, especially with Joh Clarke replacing Morley.
We should beat Saints but it is the Derby of derbies so I'll just go for 30-18.

The week before though we only conceded 6. For me Saturday can go either way If we can get our more experienced side on the pitch then we have as good a chance as you. MAY THE BEST TEAM WIN

The biggest thing my Saints-supporting friends can come up with is that "they are due a win" against us. When I ask to expand on the point and explain how they think they'll actually do it they're stumped. Silverwood being the ref is a big plus for us I think. Controlling the ruck is vital against Saints as all their momentum stems from Roby. That was key to our victory at their(Widnes's) place this season and will be key again, providing Roby doesn't get banned which I sincerely doubt he will. Silverwood tends not to be too fussy concerning the play the ball area and lets both teams get on with it

Not as confident as I was pre-wire, but yes.

Feel a bit sick tbh. Wouldn't say confident, but not scared either. Really could go either way, but we should start favourites and rightly so. Come on Sat, this week is dragging big time.

No.

I am confident but we are beatable. Sometimes our defence is weak and we let in too many points. It's as if the defence goes to sleep or switches off.

I do think though that Maguire will 'have the whip out', as I reckon he wants to go to Wembley. All Ozzies do !

I honestly thought wire would beat us ill be honest but likes been said on here we have developed that big game mentality that we've been lacking the past few years.

Im never confident going into a Derby let alone a semi final Derby but I can see the passion in the whole squad and that with the effort and skill as shown in the quarters I reckon we'll edge it.

Not in the least, never thought I would say this but Saints have been good this season and don't deserve to have lost their title as the entertainers to Wire, although that is only Wiggy's opinion. No doubt in my mind that both teams will be going into this game with players carrying more injuries and knocks than they have all season and think the timing of the games for the challenge cup is barking mad - comp starts early on in the season, super league clubs join in at the start of May with the 5th round a couple of weeks later then they forget about it for two months before staging a quarter final and a semi final inside two weeks - which brainchild at the RFL who had just undergone a frontal lobotomy thought that schedule up! The challenge cup was always so special to many of us - regardless of whether we were taking part or not - but that all seemed to change when they moved it from May to August.

We have been inconsistent this season mainly due to the injuries we have had. But we were marvellous against Hull KR and were the same against Cas, bar a blip in the first half. Since we had no interchanges in the second half it was little wonder we let in a couple of soft tries at the end as in those hot and humid conditions with no interchanges the team was always going to be knackered. If our walking wounded heal before the weekend - a big if, this season! - then I think this match could go either way because although Roby is still a vital cog in the wheel, he is no longer our only cog in the wheel. We should also have Clough back, since he made it through a full 80 minutes of u20s action, so he will replace Magennis. All going well, we will be just one prop down with a couple of sparrows on the wings. That constitutes the strongest team we have had available all season.

And we are no longer the slowest team in Superleague.