Looking forward to this. Hopefully there are no new injuries after the Catalan game.

There are a few big selection calls especially in the forwards.

If Moon is back will Keinhorst keep his place?

McDermott mentioned S.Ward could be back for this but I would be surprised if he came straight back in with the forwards available.

Hardaker
Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall
Sinfield
McGuire
Kylie
Aiton
Peacock
Delaney
Ablett
Cuthbertson

Burrow
Garbutt
Singleton
JJB

Moon will play. Ward back for, possibly, burrow

That's the team as I see it! A fully fit Ward would come back into the starting line up and Delaney to the bench with JJB or Singo dropping out.

For me Delaney is a starter. Not a fan of him coming off the bench.

McGuire should be well rested and Peacock only did about 25 minutes yesterday so I don't think the shorter turnaround should come into.

We'll win this. Then Warrington in the final should be a formality.

2 in a row - what a good way for Sir Kev to sign off.

Warrington have put in some odd showings this year, so much so that a HKR win's not out of the question.

Us beating Saints is nailed on, mind.

Wish I was as confident as you two, its a 50/50 for me this one, the 2 league games are irrelevant on friday

lots of chickens being counted here

50/50 for me too. And Warrington are so poor they've hammered us twice

Dunno whether LeedsDave was serious but my response to him was tongue in cheek. 50/50 seems about right, if pushed I'd go 51/49 in our favour.

Hardaker
Briscoe Watkins Moon Hall
Sinfield McGuire
Leuluai Aiton Peacock
Ablett Delaney
Cuthbertson

Burrow JJB Singleton Keinhorst / Ward

Hubris going to get you.
I'm never confident going in to any game with Saints.
Or Wigan, or Warrington.
Suffered too many defeats to take anything for granted.
I treat any win against them as a bonus.

I would much rather see

Hardaker
Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall

Sinfield
McGuire

Kylie
Aiton
Peacock
Ward/JJB
Ablett
Cuthbertson

JJB/Burrow (depending on Wards fitness?)
Garbutt
Singleton
Delaney

If Ward is fit I would rather drop Burrow and take four forwards on the bench. Facing Roby at hooker I just don't want Burrow near that.
If Ward isn't fit then the last bench spot goes to Burrow by default really. If he has a stormer i'll eat my words but I just don't think he will have a big enough impact to offset his deficiencies in the Hooker role. We just lose too much.

No Garbutt?

According to the YEP Ticket Sales are some what "slow" for Friday.

Yeh .. just thought a nice positive post in support of our team was what we needed.

Obviously it probably won't be quite that easy...

In a way they're irrelevant but also can't help looking at them and saying the key is whether Saints have learnt some lessons defensively for this weeks game compared to those two previous meetings. Especially Luke Walsh, missed 6 tackles at Headingley and had a 'mare and his missed tackles numbers over the last several games don't make for good reading. If he's still defending on Saints' left side on Friday then the target for us is to get Watkins against him and hope he's on song and has a field day against Walsh.

Just had a look back at the stats for the league games. 48 missed tackles for Saints at Langtree Park, 46 missed tackles at Headingley.....those numbers need to come down massively.

It's a shame, but the kick off day and time has killed any chance of a decent crowd. Obviously Saints fans won't be affected on their 7 mile "trek", but too many people have suffered the nightmare of Friday nights across the M62 and will instead just flick the TV on button in a few days time. It's OK for me I'm self employed, I'll just lose a few hours pay and set off before the bedlam commences, picking up my old fella from Whinmoor en route. It's not that easy for some other people, and the RFL don't give a sh** about spectator welfare, so the one's that travel will just have to shout twice as loud

like you i'm also self employed but i'll leave at 1 and still book a full day in

Good for you, wish I could get away with that. When technology advances and I can leave a robot to cover for me I'll be a happy fella. The irony is, my old fella can't drive, my Missus sh**s herself if she has to do the Friday M62 run, so muggins here is finishing early so everyone else can get tanked up. At least if we lose I won't have a hangover as well.

Can you pay on the door?

The club has put some of the past semi finals against Saints on youtube, including substantial highlights of the 2003 epic, where the legend of Sir Kevin really started to gain pace.

I'm sure you'll be able to, they may even pay you to go in.