We have to beat the best to win it at some point so i aint fussed who we get.

No disrespect to your club but you mean absoloutly nothing to Saints....our ground would have been rammed packed if we'd have played Wigan...instead we bottled it and picked you.
Not really that d if you win to be honest, was more interested in a much bigger game than yourselves.

Hey up the excuses are starting to come in already!!!!

You're so disinterested that you bothered to make that post. Interesting.

Saints always said the policy was picking the lowest ranking team and we have. its common sense in my book. Huddersfield are on form and showed last night it will be a tough game and I am 100% sure we will not underestimate you. It not a case of ' bottling' anything and having Leeds and Wigan tough it out with a days less rest before the final also makes sense.

Look forward to welcoming you to our final game at Knowsley Road and may the best team win on the night and go on to lift the title.

These reactions to Huddersfield's win over us are funny.

If Hudds do manage to get past Saints and get to the Grand Final get ready for the heated debate on rlfans...

"What sort of farcical system means that a team finishing 5th in the league can end up champions. We should scrap the playoffs"

As has been said, our chairman made the point in the media last season that should we ever be in the position of making the club call, we would choose the lowest ranked team. He has followed through on that. No controversy in it really, is there? Logic would suggest that between 2nd place and 5th place, 2nd place has the better chance of winning. Obviously that isn't a given by any means. I was there when you knocked us out of the CC semi last year and I hope my team remember that experience also, and play accordingly.

Meanwhile, I hope we have a great match on Friday.

And that we beat you!

speaking of support,how many saints fans will bother turning up this time like they failed to turn up in the play off game last year,will they save their money for next week like some arrogant wire fans did? or will they turn up just for the occasion of being the last game at KR?

I won't be there (first home game missed all season) as I have no childcare so will be watching on Sky unfortunately.

I'm not sure though that working on the "we may get there and if we do I want to be able to go" idea is arrogant? It is very logical really if spending the money on the game would mean you couldn't afford the final, I would imagine the same will go through the minds of some of your fans (and wigan and leeds) when deciding if they should go to the game or not.

I think we will be lucky to touch the 10k mark next week, the crowd will probably be boosted slightly with it being the last game at knowsley road but play off games never draw crowds in for numerous reasons.

You know what; we say that and we get castigated to the end of the world. Wire last night; not a word about support. Only we get grief, no one else. It's not our support that is poor, it is the IDIOTS who jump on us a every farts end who don't judge the rest by the same measure.

So let's be right here. If you wanted to turn in, you would. That's what we get; why shouldn't you?

If there are less than 10k there next week it's because you think we're a walkover. You don't give a wet fart about history and you think you'll win at a canter. And to be fair, if you wanted to go, you would. You have 5 days to sell your kids FFS...

i think saints did right to pick us its logical that you should pick the lowest ranked team, but on the 2 games ive seen this weekend i would have said wigan looked the weaker of us 2. As for the crowd been less than 10k what a insult to saints last game ever at knowsley road it should sell out whoever the opposition is.,as danril points out if that was us we would never hear the end of it i for one hope its a full house as long as i can get my ticket.

Surely Leeds are the weakest no Peacock and Burgess and without McGuire who has been their star player over the last few weeks out. i think they will struggle

meast, I love your sig...

Why get worked up over what people say about Huddersfield 'support'.

If you win SL and get 16000 average next season then all everyone will say is "where were you when you were poop" and go on about bandwagon supporters.

we dont get worked up we find it amusing that because people can no longer ridicule us for our on field product they think it's still 2003 and take great pleasure in ridiculing our crowds,as i say bitterness is an awful thing

leeds would of been my choice out of the teams to play, but saints could only choose us or wigan so i'd of done the same in there position i think

There were no Warrington fans in our stand last night and it was about half full.
Look at the highlights, thats the biggest away following we've had for a while.
Also the noisiest since the Semi at that ground last year.

Can anyone locate a review of that match. I remember going but cannot remember the details. I am sure we won about 17 points to 16. it was a very close game like most of the other games we won that season( all 4 of them

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26 November 1978 - Saints 15 Huddersfield 16.

According to the Saints Heritage site we don't seem to have played you in 1979 at all. Did you get relegated?

Good luck against saints i for one will be 100% behind you in this one and who knows in a knockout game, i would love for you to put them in there place and give us an all yorkshire final(assuming leeds beat the pies). Just a shame Cas isnt one of them but who knows there is always next year!!!

I am made up we are playing Hudds at KR. The team from where it all began. Very fitting and a true Lancashire vs Yorkshire enticer.

Well, I'm not someone complaining about your away support. To me numbers are immaterial. It's whether the match is a good one. If it's a good one then Saints will make a noise and Hudds will make a noise and who gives a fook how many people are actually there? It will sound noisy, and that's the point!

Personally, I've no idea how many Saints fans will turn up on Friday. Some wont be bothered about it being the last ever first team match while others will be in tears all over the place. I'm going just as I always do (barring illness) to support Saints in as vocal a way as possible and in the hope that we beat you and get to Old Trafford. It will be a tough encounter though and I for one am not underestimating you. I just hope we can do a better job of contesting the game than we did at the HJ last summer!

do you really believe that??? i dont think the coach or players get any xtra incentive because they have been chosen t.b.h its a gimmick that sky have brought in to 'spice' up the playoffs. and i.m.o its a load of old b******s!!

I'd use every snippet available to gain an advantage and get that extra 1%, which might just be the difference needed.

Well it looks like one of your most decorated and influencial players agrees with me



Cunningham says: "I think it's a farce and makes a mockery out of the opposition. I know if I was in that situation I'd love to be picked as it gives you incentive."

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You better have a word eh