Wow. If that is the Saints 17 that walk out at Wembley then our lads will have their work cut out.
Based on current form there are only on or two warrington players that would come close. Over the past 3 months I think it would be fair to say that none of our players are out playing their opposite number in the red vee. Probably unfair to compare Clark and Roby because neither of them are usually less than a 9/10 performance.
I don't like betting against Wire but it may soften the pain come 16:30 next Saturday. I just hope it is a great game in front of the cameras.

We’re in for a bumming, plain and simple. They owe us in a ‘big game’ and aside from OT they don’t come much bigger than Saturday. I truly dread it, our current form is going to see us mullered. Can’t see anything other than a valiant Wire effort against an unstoppable force.

There. I hope someone can quote this next Saturday at 5pm and tell me how wrong/stupid/unfaithful I was!

They owe us nothing after that hoodoo for god knows how long. It still hurts now and it makes them the worst team to lose to IMO. After that hoodoo I'd say we owe them a good tonking in a few finals, it would certainly ease the painful memories a touch anyway, I'm fully expecting another painful memory from next week though.

Wire win. Have no doubt. We are simply too powerful at full strength.

Are we even going to be at full strength though?

Quite simply, no.

Even if we get our first XI back, they won't be fully fit.

you're just trolling yourself these days duckie.

Hopefully after the CC final we're all hailing your vision and optimism.

Right now, you're just coming across as a bit deluded.

Hope you're right and we're all tragically wrong.

Austin on one leg won’t be able to save us.

I love the optimism about the best team on the park wins but in a team environment you have to factor in the man management and ability to motivate a team.
Woorying signals are offload and everbody is looking at each other to see who is going to pick the ball up. Or Clark running on his own. We just need a play the ball with nobody at dummy half in the second half to have a full house of big red flags that say that the coach has no influence on the players.

This.

Enjoy the build up to the game next week because the aftermath is going to be awful.

When Austin is playing we retain ball extremely well. I'm very confident.

I'll have what she's having . . .

We haven't looked like a team for so long, I cannot see it suddenly clicking into place on Saturday.

Do we though?

In terms of us being full strength next week, I don't think price knows what our best 13/17 is.

I hope charnley is fit, because mamo isn't as good
Why did we release Atkins early? If Goodwin fails his head test we're fooked. ( Obviously nobody could've guessed this one).

8/9/10 is obvious, 11/12/13 not so much

Thought currie was ok tonight, livett is weak in defence, sita can't start, 13 minutes is pathetic, unless there was an injury I missed.

Westwood is done for me, one year too far unfortunately. Jason Clark, thought he was impressive early on in his defensive work but as the season has gone on I'm failing to see what he brings.

This will be our 6th Wembley appearance in 11 years and it's the first one where I think we'll lose

How can we possibly win with a leaky defence - left side in particular, lack of go forward, no shape in attack and no idea how to score tries?
We're making too many basic errors- missed tackles, dropped passes, going one man out in attack.
Players trying to solve things on their own, no runners onto the ball.
Confidence shot to bits.

All they can do is work hard and give the same effort Philbin gave tonight.

Still I can only see a massive hiding coming.....

Were getting Smashed plain and simple, and that's the bottom line, end of.

I was convinced we'd win our first 3 cc final's because we had the pack to make gain and the headstrong half's to win it...

In our last 2 loses I was full of doubt..we had a pack to compete but we were controlled by Roberts who just lacked the stuff all season and Sandow who had enough stuff to last Soho all season...

But now we are once again managed by a head strong professional in Austin and surrounded with Clark and Ratchford have a winning recipe again.

This CC is the most confident of a win I've been since 2010.

You are puddled Duckie !

A puddled duck is a happy duck.

I'm not phased...I was pretty much the only one on here that said we will beat Hull FC in the semi regardless of the previous results and defeat to them only 2 weeks earlier because we simply have a stronger team....I got lamb blasted for that too....and I'm still reading posts from people saying Hull are better than us??...well let me tell you they aren't....and Salford will knock them out in the top 5 play offs.

IF he plays then it’s on one leg, the other injected, and Wembley finds him out good and proper. He didn’t sound or look confident tonight when interviewed.

Blimey, I don’t think we’ll do it with XIII but with XI... you’re having a laugh!

To be fair he always looks like that when interviewed. Not sure why he sat on his own though. Unless the camera angle just made it look that way on tv.