In peace from a Wire fan. Just to say what a pleasant surprise to read a thread with considered comments about the game, rather than the usual moronic name calling that goes on.
I have no idea what the result is going to be, and all the previous comments have some relevance.
Let us hope it is a good game, and the better team on the day wins - hoping it is Wire of course.
As long as whoever gets to Wembley can beat Saints, presuming they get there!

Exactly. Defend like we have the last couple of weeks and we should win and we should win quite convincingly.

Im surprised noone else has mentioned it, but apart from the obvious Carvell and Morley drives, I think we need to keep an eye on Briers and Jon Clarke.

Briers has always been an influential player for them, so we cant let him get on top of Sam and Tommy.

Jon Clarke has hit abit of form of late, finding the tryline a few times aswel, so hopefully Riddell can nullify that threat.

Weaknesses? Mathers has to be targeted. In the air and on the floor. We saw last week he still isnt safe with bouncing balls - lets test him out. As Sam and Phelps are usually there abouts when a kick is put through.

Id keep an eye on Mona's if he plays hooker also King is looking very strong and Bridge he has great footwork and is starting to use he stepside again.

how many?

6 but not many recently

how many times have I heard that? - Id settle for a solid game without the knock ons and without the niggle, giving away the penalties

lets all get on Mathers back as we do with Dodgy Hodgie !

What we need to do is hold carvell and morley up and let sam knee chop the gits

Fantastic idea that, demonstrates to perfection what a wealth of knowledge you have about the game, also shows alot of maturity and intelligence. Well Done.

Pffffff only caught one

Our halfbacks have to step up for me. Leuluai needs to show a little more composure than last friday and both HBs need excellent kicking games, turn Mathers, smash him, knock his confidence and pin Wire back into their own 20.

Can't wait.

I'm relieved that it's the highlight of your day, I just assumed it was you being normal as it fell in line with your usual posting style of pointless rubbish. Please accepy my deepest apologies.

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Very creative

A+ for effort.

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Just so you know, this made me chuckle





A lot of banter on here today but some people obviously have got up and logged on without their sense of humour intact today.

Not needed as I believe we will lose as Wigan are currently the better side.

For me it's quite simple what we need to do to win the game and thats to keep Morley and Carvell as quiet as is possible which will limit what the likes of Briers and Monaghan can do to us.

If we keep them in check i'm confident we can win the game but that won't be an easy task.

Spot on mate

By far ours and there biggest game of the season and it's like a mourge on here come on dire fans we need some banter or wolfette lift my ban on there for a few hours

I have read this page from bottom up, the ohhhhh wannnn etc made me chuckle, but by the time I got to the bit about Sam knee chopping Carvell and Morley I was laughing my head off.

The difference is though that you don't produce banter, it's just rubbish and vile comments. If you want to follow examples of banter then look at ABP' or NickyKiss as just two examples, they come on our board from time to time and have a good crack and are treated in a warm and friendly manner.

We did pepper their line but not with any pre-planned moves.
We need dummy runners and players being put through holes.
Why don't we even have a move involving Feka near the line?

Sometimes I find it fustrating that we do not use Feka enough when close to the line.

Not only would he have a chance of actually getting over the whitewash, he also attracts more than a couple of defenders which then spreads the defence and creates space away from the ruck. Players such as Harrison Hansen and Joel Tomkins thrive off hitting gaps through scrambled defences.

Been saying this for years. Do not understand the mentality of a coach who has a living battering-ram in his pack, but never uses him that way when close to the line. Surely it'd be worth giving him one drive for every set of six we have (and usually waste) in the green zone?

Paul Anderson used to do it quite a bit and was succesful. Hansen is great at going through gaps, he scored a brilliant try in the comeback at the bulls in 07.

Don't get drawn into a forward battle, Warrington like to do that and thats when Wigan have been sucked into poor rugby in the past. Just attack like we did against Leeds (2nd half) and defend like we did at Saints.