With Warrington loosing on Friday, it puts Wigan in a position were we could afford to loose another game and still finish top after the regular season.
I think it would be better for Wigan to play Catalan in the play offs than possibly Saints 3 games on the trot. I also think Saints could get into Warringtons heads in the play offs.
IF we can beat Salford and HKR, should we rest players against Saints to enable them a win and thus ensure they finish third there by playing Warrington in the play offs.
It would also show up what a farcical play off system we have at present, that this could be done.

So you guys are afraid of playing Saints and you hope Saints will beat Wire to take us out of the equation.

And you are that scared of us both that you are considering throwing a match.

Yes, because obviously NW is speaking for all of us.

Yes, we are terrified of you.....

Isn't it the same as you throwing the London game to give you the best chance of winning the CC ?
Either that or Warrington peaked the against us, or are London just that much better than you ?

Have they got rid of that club call thing where the top team picks who they play?

That comes later JackH

I don't see how getting our backsides handed to us last week gives us a better chance of winning the CC....if we had wanted to do that we should have played the U21s rather than first teamers.

But also London came and played us without fear and showed how to beat us whereas Wigan always seem to be hesitant when you play us. Wigan are so good against everyone else but keep bottling it when they have to face the Wolfs.

Read up, i agreed and you are right, we are scared of you....

So it wasn't a tactical decision to leave out Briers, Hodgson, Carvell, Westwood etc. to give them a rest and keep them ready for Wembley ?
If thats as good as Warrington really are, you'd better not turn up against Leeds and for the play offs !!!

It wouldnt work, we rested 6 on good friday and still turned saints over

Now we know who posted the legendary WOLFS photo.

Which one are you i bet the goofy looking one who looks like he is on a day out with his carers who have no idea what he is doing. Thats the one on the left in the photo.

I know what the OP is getting at and tend to agree.

It would be better in my eyes if we were to get Cats at home and let Stains and Dire bash themselves about, maybe twice before reaching the final.

I dont think we will be resting players though, maybe we should

If we want to win the GF we are going to have to beat the best teams to get there anyway. What a way it would be to do it, by beating St Helens 3 times on the trot and then beating Warrington in the final!

That is exactly what I was trying to say PeaPoi, why should we even attempt to beat our closet rivals three games on the trot, if we can take a potentially easier route to a Final?
People say finishing top doesn't matter (we would have done that anyway), it's all about the play offs, lets make it as easy a route as possible.

Agree.

Did you coach the Chinese Badminton doubles?

I wasn't in the photo I just rote the grafitti

nice riposte.

Do you think this fool goes through normal life missing as many things that are right under his/her nose?

Saints could well be coming to our place 3 times in September. The possibility is that we could win 5 times against Saints and still not get to the GF, which would just about be it for me if this top 8 system is retained.

No, it wasn't tactical, it was to allow them to pick up their pensions on Friday whilst the rest of team was travelling down to London.

What dilema, even at our lowest point over the last few years, the chance of beating Stains always comes before anything else.
The ginger pearls try in the last minute against them was more pleasing than any of the trys in the Challenge Cup final last year. Nothing feels better than putting our 'noisy neighbours' to sleep.

my thoughts too. shame how fickle, unprincipled & just downright perfidious some can be.

It may be an easier route but just think.
Some Wire fans say they won the league because they finished top. If we threw a game (which is against the spirit of the sport and should be punished like it is in football which would obviously get wire punished for the London game) it would be wrong and it would mean that if our route was easier and we win the Gf we would've won from not finishing first (something we disliked about Leeds winning it last year) and it would mean those same wire fans could do the "we won the league" for another year. Plus who wouldnt want to beat saints 3 games in a row (assuming we did that of course)