Wolf Whistle (From This Is Cheshire)

Wolf Whistle

12:00pm Thursday 18th March 2010 in

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THIS is it – the big one.

And I must admit I’m nervous.

If any supporter at the start of the season had to choose just one win this year, it would have been Saints away in nine out of 10 cases.

After all, Wire have not won at Knowsley Road for 10,000 years.

As much as it has been a great start, with five wins from six outings, I think the majority of speccies will only start to truly believe this team is capable of something special in Super League if it can finally end the humiliating, embarrassing and hugely horrendous run of losses at Saints’ crumbling old ground.

I hope our current team really understands what a win would mean to us – an end to all the gloating from cocky friends, relatives and colleagues with tendancies of a red V nature.

The fact that 6,000 to 7,000 Wire fans are going to be behind Tony Smith and his men in a bid to roar them home to success again stresses the importance the supporters are placing on this encounter.

With the glass half full, I can see from Wire’s performances so far that tomorrow night is our night.

However, with the glass half empty, I can also see us heading for a big fall.

And that’s why my nerves are shot, my sleeping pattern has gone all to pot and I just want to get the game over with and continue the rest of the season.

Let’s face it, it’s not the first time we’ve made the trip to Knowsley Road with great expectations and saying ‘It has got to be this time’.

We’ve come close, very close, but the mental toughness has not quite been sufficient to complete the job.

And Saints always seem to raise their game against us, no matter their form leading into the game.

There’s a reason for that.

For as much as Wolves and their fans want to break this so-called ‘hoodoo’ spanning 16 years, Saints want to keep it going.

No Saints player wants to be in the team that eventually loses to Warrington – the shame of it!

And the Saints speccies know that 16 years of crowing will be chucked back in their faces with the glee of knowing that Wolves won the last game of Super League that they played at Knowsley Road.

I’ve no doubt that Saints, with some of their star names back from injury just in time to face us, will produce their best performance of the season so far tomorrow – meaning Wolves will have to do the same and hope it’s enough.

But wouldn’t it be great to send Knowsley Road out in style and start a new era of successive wins at Saints’ new home – that’s something that will be worth shouting from the rooftops.

Sing your hearts out for the lads!