: Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:58 pm  

I'd like a Hudds v Wire final but I think it'll be Saints v Wire. Hopefully Wire win it due to the many ex-Leeds lads over there. I wouldn't be too upset to see Richie go over for the winner in the last minute. Felt sorry for him last Saturday for a couple of seconds!

[Frosties.]

: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:53 pm  

Barrie Mac predicts Wire vs Hudds final. http://www.therhinos.co.uk/news/7697.php

Barrie Mac predicts Wire vs Hudds final. http://www.therhinos.co.uk/news/7697.php

: Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:39 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

Roughly translated.
Wigan drew with us at KR last season.
They were the better team this season at the JJB (DW) and KR (GPW) and should have won.
They battered us at Murrayfield.

Bollox to that lot! We drew at KR last season but hey, we'd just done a 22 match winning spree and won a cup so I think that says it all, in the rain, on the last match of the season. We beat you at JJB and KR this season - and the best teams always win. Saints didn't want to be at Murrayfield and they showed it, and fans expressed what they thought about that afterwards!

You can grasp straws if you want to and dress things up all you like, but the bottom line is even with a depleted squad on a rainy night with your guys in full flow, we still beat you.

We'd rather play Wire as we ALWAYS beat them.

Not true, actually. A lot of Saints fans have been preferring Wire matches for a few seasons now and not because we win but simply because they have been the better contests. The hoodoo thing has added extra spice. Wigan have been useless for derby matches for a few seasons now. Friday night came close but you have a ways to go before you prove yourselves again.

: Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:41 pm  

ryano wrote:

I'd like a Hudds v Wire final but I think it'll be Saints v Wire. Hopefully Wire win it due to the many ex-Leeds lads over there. I wouldn't be too upset to see Richie go over for the winner in the last minute. Felt sorry for him last Saturday for a couple of seconds!

You felt sorry for him?

Did you say the way he celebrated when he scored? Or the way he celebrated when Wigan beat us at Headingley?

Forget feeling sorry for him, I wanted to laugh in his face after Ryan Hall's try.

: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:32 pm  

Read to the end of the sentence!

: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:36 pm  

ryano wrote:

Read to the end of the sentence!

Still a couple of seconds too long!!

: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:49 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

Bollox to that lot! We drew at KR last season but hey, we'd just done a 22 match winning spree and won a cup so I think that says it all, in the rain, on the last match of the season. We beat you at JJB and KR this season - and the best teams always win. Saints didn't want to be at Murrayfield and they showed it, and fans expressed what they thought about that afterwards!

You can grasp straws if you want to and dress things up all you like, but the bottom line is even with a depleted squad on a rainy night with your guys in full flow, we still beat you.


Not true, actually. A lot of Saints fans have been preferring Wire matches for a few seasons now and not because we win but simply because they have been the better contests. The hoodoo thing has added extra spice. Wigan have been useless for derby matches for a few seasons now. Friday night came close but you have a ways to go before you prove yourselves again.

Lets make it simple.

As you know according to Saints fans RL began in 1996.

In that Superleague time have Saints beat Wigan more times than Wigan have beat Saints?

If so by how many games.

Then ask said Saints Fan the same question re Saints and Warrington.

As I said a Huddersfield v Wigan final beckons.

: Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:07 pm  

I fancy Giants to do it. They are a bloody well drilled outfit. On paper, you wouldn't give them a chance against Saints, but Nathan Brown has really got the best out of them. Mean, mean defence.

Sitting on the fence with the other one, would love it to be the Wire though.

: Thu Aug 06, 2009 12:24 pm  

Just looking forward to a weekend of not giving myself a nervous breakdown and several heart attacks.

: Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:04 am  

Depends whether Hudds can also avoid any stage fright (also true for whoever may face Sts if Hudds can't do them in the semis).

I do like the look of Warrrington with the ball, but their defence isn't that good, so they'll need to up the intensity there to beat Wigan IMO.