Clearly we are going out with a patched up side, but when haven't we gone out with a makeshift team in this disastrous season? even when we did put out something resembling a first-choice seventeen, it still looked patched up due to our dreadful recruitment policy!!!!
This is the same situation as two weeks ago, no different, before the Wigan game. None of us believed we had a prayer that afternoon, yet somehow we came away with a stunning victory, easily the highpoint of the year.
For Saints, this is about as close to a crisis as they have been in probably the past forty years. St Helens teams don't do losing streaks, it's unheard of!
If we can play with the same attitude and commitment as we have during the last couple of months then we can make the game a contest. The longer we can stay in the game, the more we can play on their anxieties at their losing run. This isn't the Saints team of even last year, let alone the title-winning sides. If it's a close game going into the last twenty, the crowd hopefully will be energised and we can expose their current frail confidence and brittle shortcomings.
Their play-off hopes are suddenly on a knife-edge. We have nothing to lose here. It's a free hit and we should go for it. A few weeks back I would have conceded this as a no-hoper, but now I don't see why we can't repeat the Wigan result.
What have we got to lose here? Let's create some noise and atmosphere in East & South stands and make the once-mighty Saints feel intimidated
The atmosphere in the ground was brilliant two weeks ago. If we can put them under pressure, I think they will buckle.
I live in hope, as always! Let's have some fun in the sun and enjoy ourselves!!
