Another dour Yarkshiremon.



"You"lll have to play better in the GF to win it"....Will we? Judging Cas' "performance" last year, an amateur team could've turned up and won. Talk about stage fright. New underpants required.

Wigan. We've already [idone a number[/i on them, this season, so need to panic.



I hope you try and enjoy the final, and your Tetley's isn't too flat, come 8pm Saturday. Don't be too bitter

The “entertainers” score 1 scruffy try from a kick, we get 3 from open play! Price clearly had a game plan bash up the middle, kicks to the right wing and quick passing to the left wing to expose the “invisible man” sooty I mean Man of Steal(ing a living) Ben Barba.

Do the Revolving Door Manufacturing Institute give out awards?

If he had had ping pong bats the impression of a ground controller directing a plane into a bay would have been complete.

As for the Yarkshire fan above, it may not have been the prettiest game ever but the intensity was at 11. Not taking anything for granted but that level of pressure can only stand us in good stead.

In breaking news if we win it will be new name on it. “It’s always our year...”

Warrington won the game I watched which is all that matters to me, and I can live with you having a differing definition of "excellent".

We were never going to lose that. You could tell during the warm up, it was all hands to the pump, we had all 19 players dressed and warming up, we had all the coaches out running the players and a lot of non selected players were out there working them. You could just feel it.

We lose finals when I attend, also. We've also won a few. I know it's tongue-in-cheek, but we need all the support we can get.

If that's all it takes, can we do the same next week please?!

Respect to you JM for posting after a game that must have hurt after the season that Saints have had, and taking the defeat with dignity.

I was talking to a Wigan supporting colleague who said on Thursday morning the Barba had mentally checked out at Saints, and wouldn't be a threat. I think he may well be right in some respect, but I also think that Wire dealt with Saints attack with a dogged attitude to defending, making every tackle count.

To limit Saints to 1 fortuitous try on their home patch when it counts was outstanding.

As a Yorkshireman I thought it was a fantastic game. It was not until afterwards did I think about the quality on show. I'll take games of that intensity over free-flowing 10 try scoreathons any day.

Me too from another Yorkie.

Not sure what people were wanting tbh.

Nip and tuck with a fair bit of aggression and some nice try`s scored.

What more do you want from a semi final?

Impressed with Hughes, Cooper, Goodwin and Lineham but thought Ratchford had his worse game of the season from the games I`ve seen him play.

From a Cas fan.



Congratulations Warrington!!!!



Maybe not a 100% all round performance but your defence and commitment were 120%. Best team by a mile and would have been a travesty if you had not won.



Regardless of tonight's result, I wish you luck in the final. If we cannot win it I hope you do.



BTW I too thought it a great match to watch.

re barba, its not that he'd checked out, it was the same as the last time we were there, we were very very good at closing down the space that lomax created for him outwide, jon wells got it bob on at half time at how well toby king was holding position for that barba dash around the back. Match that with how richardson and all his fellow defenders got pulled in.

Agree that we closed saints down with our spot on defence. Whether Barba is/isn't as sharp as he was earlier on in the season matters not. He didn't create anything, and he wasn't allowed to.

As for defending, he looked like he didn't want to know. That's not taking anything away from Lineham who showed great determination and belief that he was getting that ball over the line on both occasions.

I have been miffed on a few occasions this season with the obsession with wingers diving as high as they can to avoid the defender while putting the ball down an inch from the dead ball line. This avoids getting knees in the back which was always the risk of the traditional slide over the try line. Minkin had 2 tries chalked off in one game when he was bundled into touch following a spectacular dive. The one exception to this has been Charnley who is almost unstoppable when he slides in from 5 yards. It looks like Lineham has learned from him.

It's a good point and I thought something similar. Lineham was doing the fancy dives 18 months or two years ago with mixed effect. And why would it succeed? He is a heavily-built winger. What he has learned is that if he gets nice and low early, his physique is going to get him over the line and it is going to take a hell of a defensive effort to get under him or knock him off course.



Good to see a player learning how to use their own attributes; not just following the trend. Hicks was the best finisher I have seen in a Wire shirt because he knew exactly how to use his strengths and mitigate his weaknesses.

Maybe he took note of Atkins’ attempt at a high flying try from last season?

Literally the bounce of the ball. Saints have been found out massively now people have realised Danny Richardson isn't very good and that Barba has given up since deciding to go home.



Ryan Hampshire

Richie Myler

Josh Drinkwater

Jake Trueman



All far far better than Richardson statistically (tries/assists) he is a bang average player and basically Jamie Foster at scrum half.

I’m genuinely excited about Trueman and he isn’t even our player. He looks the absolute business and is only 19!



Seems like a really down to Earth lad when he’s been interviewed n’all.

[i"All in all, I’d rather have had the season we had and lost two semis than amble along in 4th again."



[/i- Genuine quite from RedVee.



Looks like they're clinging not only to straws but anything they can get their hand on that might even remotely look like straw

Agreed, attacks the line as well. Loads to his game

Congratulations, hope it's Wigan there with you next week but feeling nervous as hell right now.

Richardson is getting [ithrown under the bus[/i on a couple of threads on red vee, today.

How quickly they change their minds

At Easter, he was their Messiah

Now, he's a very naughty boy