Teams often complain the week off is actually a inconvenience. Anyway it’s only my opinion, but I’ll be disappointed if we can’t put an effort in Thursday night.

It really wasn't that intense? That's rubbish. It was intense enough to require recovery time. It was a hell of a lot more intense than anything Wigan will need to recover from.

Check out the stats for CCF and CCSF games. Teams tend to struggle to back up (unless it was a blow out). You can have all the opinions on the world, but they don't appear to be backed up.

The fact that Wigan have had a good rest and we're having to back up in a shorter than normal turnaround will be a big factor.

It will be interesting to see how the game pans out.

If it's nip and tuck until the last 15 minutes then we run out of steam then yes, that can be blamed on fatigue and the short turnaround.

I just hope the players show up and make a game out of it and don't go into the game thinking they're tired resulting in another hiding.

Why is it rubbish , we didn’t play that well, Warrington’s intensity was much higher than ours , we did well to stay in the game. Our intensity in defence was poor. I guess we’ll see Thursday night, but I reckon we will and should go ok

I have no doubt they will put the effort in, but when Wigan appear to be much fresher in the last quarter, I anticipate we will make a lot of errors and be out of position due to being knackered.

Well we best make sure we are 20 in front going into the last quarter, against a poor but fresher Wigan team at home

Your are right
Hull will lose heavily to Wigan and Warrington will get beaten at Catalan

Saints play a different style to us
They use the ball more across the backline to create the space rather than just cart the ball up the middle for 5 tackles.
This has two effects
much less work for their forwards
move the opposition around a lot more draining energy

similar style to how Castleford played when they were runaway league winners

Thats why to me it would seem stupid of the coach not to use Hadley,Green and Litten and possibly give one of the fringe props like Brown a run.
I would have Hadley at loose forward for Westerman who is just going through the motions at the moment and a good time to give Danny Houghton a break.
I guess Masi is not match fit but whats happening with Levy and Bienek?

In your opinion, what makes Wigan a poor team? They are on a great run at the moment.

wigan are not a poor team, dark horses for the grand final imo,

The scandal of it all, is the uneducated Sky decision makers who choose any team to back up so quickly after such a gruelling intense game like a Challenge cup semi final.

Radders will freshen the team up, but I’m not expecting the points in this one.