Wakefield to win! Its a typical thing to happen, lose 5 on the bounce and beat the table topping Saints. Roll on Sunday.

UP THE TRIN!!

we would have to Improve by about 18 points!!!

On current form and on paper it appears to be a Saints win all the way and that is the way my head feels too. However I have a gut instinct that we are going to snatch this one then the league will start taking notice of us again.

Even 2 of the 4 on the Proper Sport RL show last night tipped us to win.

Another close game I feel, and another to look forward to.

My heart sees a Wakey win, but given the way Saints are playing, my head is saying a Saints win. Apologies if that sounds negative.

However, surely,sooner or later, we are bound to win one of these tight games. Hopefully, it will be this week.

England will be back for Saints, not sure about big Dave? Hopefully both to return? That would give us a good lift and a bit more grunt.

I think the big fella is due back until after this one.

He still looks to be in Aus on his Instagram, I wouldn't expect him to play. We've definitely improved in the attacking sense, I was told on here nobody would put 40 on Leeds this season... well we came pretty god damn close, you won't often put 26 points on a team and lose the game.

Step up in defence, cut out the silly errors and I can see a win.

A quick one on the Singleton try, that was disgusting how we let that happen.

This weekend

Wakefield 26 - 28 Leeds
Hudds - 28 - 40 Castleford
Catalans 23 - 32 Wigan

Last week we put 26 past Hull and lost.

The week before we put 24 on Warrington and lost.

So "You wont often put 26 points on a team and lose the game" is no valid point really.

3 more tries to reach 40 isn't close. I'd suggest you could take 10/12 points off each teams score if it was played another week and not just after the Easter double header.

So two of your games Catalans and Warrington were both below 26 points so are irrelevant... I do appreciate that it has happened twice this weekend but how many other rounds of super league have there been Homme Vaste? Ever? I would say there have been more games won when scoring 26 points than lost when scoring 26 points.

It's more than half of 40, 14 points I can appreciate is 3 tries or 2 and a conversion but the point I was trying to make was I think we played better than a lot of other teams would have done in that fixture.

Thought I'd read he would be back for the start of next month.

Well aye

Depends on how long "a couple of weeks" is, Chester said that's how long he'd be missing after the Hull game.

BetFred giving Wakefield +8 or you can get 4/11 on a Saints win.

hmm....I can see sts counting a few chickens before this one, that and there's talk Roby might be pulled, that's only ever gonna be a good thing.
Barba ?....I'm not too fussed, on one hand he's good in the line but on the other does not contribute to the tackle count, maybe he doesn't have to at the moment, but its got to count for something sooner or later.
No, if I'd to choose one or the other not to play, I'd put Roby in the stand...

Roby is an enigma, right up there with the greats in the SL era but Barba gives Saints a bit of X factor and although he may not make too many tackles, this stat is irrelevant to a side that is averaging 11.4 points against per game this season.
Both him and Percival are keeping the scoreboard moving with 10 tries each so far this season.

I've got Saints tipped for the LLS this season and this will be our sternest test of the season so far.

Yawn

I have been really impressed with Barba this season, I didn't think eh would actually do much at all in the league but literally looks leagues above the opposition when he plays.

It's funny because Saints fans have slated the state of the league for the past four or five years, yet cream themselves when a player from a superior competition looks good in it?

If a player from a superior competition comes, plays well and therefore makes us better then obviously we’re going to get excited, what a bizarre post. Hint of jealousy there?

Have you head the expression "big fish, small pond?"

And? Still don’t get what your strange dig at saints fans was all about, fans of every team would get excited if they had Barba so it’s an odd thing to criticise. Especially Wakefield fans as well, considering some of the garbage they’ve had to watch over the years.

Fans from every team in the UK*

I see Wilzays point actually, the same Saints fan i talk to on the regular has complained about how SL is now "Sub standard" and nowhere near the quality it was back in the day when Saints and Leeds where the invincibles - Yet he refers to Ben Barba "World class" based on his performances in SL for Saints?

Barba is the most exciting player in the competition at present and Justin Holbrook has the best comb over. IMHO.