Monday night predictions : Fri Aug 03, 2012 1:46 am  

Winner - Saints (not being bias but i think we are too hot at the moment)
Score - 28-16
Attendance - 15000
MOM - Lance
1st Try - Atkins



Whats your "honest" predictions?

Re: Monday night predictions : Fri Aug 03, 2012 2:37 am  

Winner: Saints probably - we're on a roll and Wire will be starting to have their minds at Wembley. Plus we have the honour of the first win at LP to uphold.
Score: 22-18
Attendance: 15,843
MoM: Roby
1st try: Wellens

Re: Monday night predictions : Fri Aug 03, 2012 7:45 am  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

we're on a roll

Are we? I'd say Hudds pretty much rolled over last Sunday and before that we'd been unconvincing for a few weeks, although the Catalan game certainly didn't lack in commitment.

Always the optimist, I'm going for a Saints win.

Saints 22 - Wire 20
Attendance - 17,000
MoM - Lomax
1st Saints Try - Lomax

Re: Monday night predictions : Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:10 am  

Saints 42 Wire 18
MOM - Lance
Att - 17000
1st Try - Meli

Westood sent off 62min

Re: Monday night predictions : Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:36 am  

Offside Monkey wrote:

Are we?

We may not be playing dazzlingly but we haven't lost in a long, long time now and are winning games even when we're outplayed e.g. Cats. Winning is a tough habit to break

Re: Monday night predictions : Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:07 am  

It all depends on how Warrington approach it. If they realise what a defeat could mean, i.e losing to us and at Wigan where they still need to go could theoretically cost them a top 2 spot. They won't want that. Wembley will be on their minds, but it's 3 weeks away.

If Warrington turn up well prepared and fully focused I don't think we can compete with that. They are as good as Wigan, if not better and we have shown we can't live with Wigan.

We could grind out a win against them, but there just isn't the quality in this Saints side to have genuine confidence in them.

Re: Monday night predictions : Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:29 am  

Saddened! wrote:

If Warrington turn up well prepared and fully focused I don't think we can compete with that. They are as good as Wigan, if not better and we have shown we can't live with Wigan.

We could grind out a win against them, but there just isn't the quality in this Saints side to have genuine confidence in them.

I'm not exactly confident, but don't overestimate Wire. For a start, it appears Morley's form has slipped a yard this season, which is a massive factor.

Wire haven't changed much, they're still prone to playing crazy rugby if you frustrate them. Our big men are in good form, which should mean we can get to grips with them up front and go toe-to-toe and set-for-set, hopefully meaning our superior completion record will win out.

If, as you say, Wire up the intensity, we may struggle to contain them, but at the same time their error rate is prone to shooting up.

Re: Monday night predictions : Fri Aug 03, 2012 11:04 am  

Saddened! wrote:

It all depends on how Warrington approach it. If they realise what a defeat could mean, i.e losing to us and at Wigan where they still need to go could theoretically cost them a top 2 spot. They won't want that. Wembley will be on their minds, but it's 3 weeks away.

If Warrington turn up well prepared and fully focused I don't think we can compete with that. They are as good as Wigan, if not better and we have shown we can't live with Wigan.

We could grind out a win against them, but there just isn't the quality in this Saints side to have genuine confidence in them.

We play Wigan @ the HJ We beat them at the DW earlier in the Season.

Re: Monday night predictions : Fri Aug 03, 2012 11:12 am  

We all know we are seriously lacking all across the backline compared to Wire and if they play to 100% then we will naturally struggle to contain them. But I think this game might be a little more important to us than it is to them and our forwards are bang in form which I reckon will be just about enough this time. We'll need the hoodoo and a full-on traditional big game Wire brainfreeze come the playoffs however.

...and I've just seen the post on the Wire board where it confirms that they have a 0-7 record playing at new grounds in SL... Time to reestablish the hoodoo...

Re: Monday night predictions : Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:58 pm  

Chris Hill has compensated for Morley's lack of form. The man's a wrecking ball. Carvell is having a good season too.

I think that if we click we could run riot, but it'll be tough as you're a good and hard team to break down.

Reckon we might just edge it but for the neutrals it'll be a great game and a great advert for RL.