Re: Road to Old Trafford : Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:25 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Anyone else gutted about tonight's score? I had Leeds down as our exit route, a brave home defeat to them in the play offs ending our season. But this makes it a very real possibility of a Grand Final against Warrington or Wigan. A painful night ahead for us?

Interesting question for you that was raised on the leeds board: would you swap positions with Leeds right now? Would a challenge cup in the bag justify such a poor end to the season?

Re: Road to Old Trafford : Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:29 pm  

hell no!
if we scrape to OT ill be expecting a loss so have a great night reguardless! a win would be a bonus!

Re: Road to Old Trafford : Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:57 pm  

Kevin Brown, gotta be one of the best St.Helens lads in the last god knows how long to have never played for his hometown team. Although I believe he's a Wigan fan, I'd have loved to have seen him in a Saints shirt.

Re: Road to Old Trafford : Sun Sep 21, 2014 6:42 am  

Twentyman wrote:

Kevin Brown, gotta be one of the best St.Helens lads in the last god knows how long to have never played for his hometown team. Although I believe he's a Wigan fan, I'd have loved to have seen him in a Saints shirt.

But he hates saints with a passion so it was/is never going to happen

Re: Road to Old Trafford : Sun Sep 21, 2014 6:57 am  

Saint Simon wrote:

hell no!
if we scrape to OT ill be expecting a loss so have a great night reguardless! a win would be a bonus!

I'd take the win a Wembley every day of the week. The cup is in the bag and I'm not sure getting to old Trafford this year will help tbh as I could see Wigan smashing us up big time.

The kicking game we playing would be very dangerous against the pies with kick returns from Bowen, burgess and Charnley.

Re: Road to Old Trafford : Sun Sep 21, 2014 7:06 am  

Strange things happen especially on big nights in high pressure circumstances like Old Trafford. I believe Saints will make OT now and regardless of it being Wigan or Warrington you face it will be a close fought game IMO. Your defending brilliantly at the moment and look really determined.

If we're lucky enough to make it through and we do play you I'll be incredibly nervous. There's a few seasons of derby dominance on the line and in the biggest one of them all we could get burned. There wouldn't be a great deal of pressure on you guys IMO and we could panic in that situation.

Interesting few weeks ahead anyway.

Re: Road to Old Trafford : Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:15 am  

hatty wrote:

But he hates saints with a passion so it was/is never going to happen

That simply isn't true. Brown was more than willing to move to us but Widnes were asking for too high a transfer fee.

He doesn't hate Saints at all.

Re: Road to Old Trafford : Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:20 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

Strange things happen especially on big nights in high pressure circumstances like Old Trafford. I believe Saints will make OT now and regardless of it being Wigan or Warrington you face it will be a close fought game IMO. Your defending brilliantly at the moment and look really determined.

If we're lucky enough to make it through and we do play you I'll be incredibly nervous. There's a few seasons of derby dominance on the line and in the biggest one of them all we could get burned. There wouldn't be a great deal of pressure on you guys IMO and we could panic in that situation.

Interesting few weeks ahead anyway.

Strange things do happen, like losing 5 bloody times!

Re: Road to Old Trafford : Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:26 am  

Fatbelly wrote:

Here is my version.

How Wire do entirely depends on our injuries. We currently have injured Super Ben, Ben Harrison, Chris Bridge, Simon Grix & Ryan Atkins. In my view for us to do well we need 3 of those 5 to play . In addition we will probably be missing Paul Wood for at least one game.

Ive done this with my Head & not my Heart.

Week 1

St's v Castleford = Saints win (Yep your big game experience will win it for you)

Wigan v Hudds = Wigan win

Wire v Widnes = Wire win

Leeds v Catalan = Catalans win

Week 2

Saints & Pies week off

Hudd v Catalan = Hudds win

Cas v Wire = Wire win

Week3

Saints choose Hudds

Wigan V Wire = Wire win (But only Wire if as I said we get out walking wounded back. If we don't no one will stop Wigan)

Saints V Hudds = Hudds win

Grand Final

Hudds V Wire = Wire

Well Ive been right so far. The only thing I will change is that if you could well beat Hudds, but that will depend on what Injuries they have.

Re: Road to Old Trafford : Sun Sep 21, 2014 8:31 am  

The question is if you know because of all the pivotal players missing you only have a 20% of winning the grand final, would you still want the team to qualfy to be there.