Might be players missing through suspension with a potentially a bad tempered derby next week and with the refs currently dishing out cards like Clintons.

Radford Out?

On the pitch? Might come to that, let's recall Richard Horne from Doncaster as well.

Yep. Did his ankle kicking Faraimo up the . 4 to 6 weeks.

Even with a fully fit squad i wouldn't have be confident with that draw

Couldn't have been any worse. Damn.

Wembley was getting boring anyway, and it'll save a fortune in travel, booze and hotels.
Saints will probably win the Cup and the GF in 2018.

We'll em!

I'd have fancied our chances with a fully fit squad, pressure would have been on saints to perform on the day.

I'm getting a garden overhaul now on the back of the year on year savings

Save some for Salford Quays mind.

at first i thought dam, but you know what we have a chance, we gotta go there and hope to upset them, yes there are big fav but imo we can get a result, depends who we have back as well,

Saints are a shoe in for the treble given that someone somewhere clearly thinks Ben Barba is the hero the sport needs in this hemisphere.

Never known so many pundits to spitshine one players bootyhole in unison.

Since 6 months ago and Luke Gale

I'm going to Wembley whatever, still think we can do them.
Mrs B why not start a thread for your pessimistic nonsense, saying we need three wins and then we can get in to pre season for 2019, how very typical of you to write us off ...again!

Sam Tompkins a while back. Some of the sky pundits still smell of rat poop.

…. "enough really is enough", or maybe not.

Fantastic player though but Saints success is not just about Barba.
They have a very good forward pack.If you watch how much time Richardson has to kick the ball on the last tackle without pressure this is a reflection of how Saints pack are in control.
if we can get our discipline right,control the ball and put pressure on Barba and Richardson on the last tackle we will give them a game.

What a load of rubbish

I expect us to fight tooth and nail for our cup like we have for the last two years.

Could do with some bodies back, as it stands now, I really think our cup run could be over.

Probably already safe in the 8's, For any team to catch us, they would have to win 5 more games, I'm not sure any of the bottom 4 are capable of that

As daft as it sounds I think Barba is the least of our worries and as it was commented on yesterday he's a rich icing on a fantastic cake. As you say their pack even without Walmsley is superb and Roby for me is the best hooker in the comp. They are an excellent RL side and with home advantage and our huge list of missing players including both halves I just believe our joyous Cup run is over.

I hope you're right. Making the 8 is so important.

What we learned from last 2 seasons is that to have a serious tilt at both trophies we need 90% of senior squad to stay fit and be rotated to keep fresh for end of season. Last season we nearly did it but just ran out of steam at semi. This season in view of injury situation will be unlikely to give saints a game in 3 weeks but 100% sure we will try with rads in charge. Let's be realistic and let players regroup and push on in top 4 so we can have serious go at GF. With all others bashing each other to Wembley we could benefit and really be ready to capitalise. Having seen sneyd today at Morrisons on 2 crutches and a leg brace he looks unlikely to steer us to Wembley for his hat rick of lance Todd anyway.

Wow
We’ve won 9 CC Games on the spin haven’t we
The CC is full of upsets almost annually
Of course we have a chance
It’s a 2 horse race !!!!
We have every chance and whilst it’s a tough draw I expect the Cup Holders to give all
They’ve got and who knows
Let’s take as many fans as we can and ensure they don’t read the majority of this thread
COYH