Think wayne bennett is going to be they to, for a bit more motivation for the english players on both sides, a few good battles. Taylor/hill watts/hill, houghton/clarke, yeaman/atkins!!!! Ellis/westwood, could he be tempted back! I dont think so. Hopefully should be cracking game , go for a hull win by 12

Westwood won't be fit. Kevin Penny should be fit and will probably come in for Ormsby. Sims will take Bailey's starting place and will drop to the bench with Wilde missing out.

Two very good teams and it could go either way. At some point this season, Hull will put a good 80 minutes together instead of their usual broken spells adding up to 40 minutes. When they do, someone is in for a hammering. Hopefully it's Warrington

I wonder how many minutes Lee Briers will get on the pitch this week?

None its John Clarke now that spends time on the pitch not Briers.

Obviously not. Based on that criteria, 50% of the teams that play this weekend are effectively getting a free hit up. Utter nonsense.

I expect defeat.
We need a Saints cup performance to snatch a high scoring, close game. Anything less and we will lose.
However I dont see it as season defining, we will return and win the rest of our regular season games.

The good thing about this week, in my opinion, is that we are playing another top 4 team. The further away we can pull away from 5th as a group of 4 teams, the better.

We saw at the back end of last year what a team with nothing to play for looks like. Let's make the rest of the top 8 'make up the numbers' and not have a sniff at the 4. It might make it boring to watch, but it'll be the best outcome for our chances of reaching the Grand Final.

Of course, now I've said that, we won't win another game all year

Finishing top at the end of it all just means the tea lady gets a whole season of carrying the chairman's brew on a fancy tray.

There really isn't any more advantage finishing top to finishing 2nd. As a Wire fan 1 or 2 will do me, if we win Friday I think we'll finish on top at the split that's all. I'm kind of hoping all the top 4 clubs do a number on Saints and Cas too, to keep them away and cement the top 4

Utter nonsense my ass. No one on here expects us to win and I doubt anyone in the media expects us to win. We can win if we play to our potential but if we don't win then worst case scenario we're on not top due to points difference. best case scenario we're 4 points clear of wire. All of the pressure is on wire.