ENGAGE SUPER LEAGUE PLAY-OFF SEMI-FINAL
Venue: Knowsley Road Date: Saturday 3 October Kick-off: 1730 BST
Coverage: Live commentary on BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra; Full commentary on BBC Radio Merseyside 1485 MW, DAB and online; Live scores and full report on BBC Sport website
 With the Grand Final just 80 minutes away, the Saints-Wigan rivalry will be fiercer than ever
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St Helens are at full strength for Saturday's Super League play-off semi-final against fierce rivals Wigan.
Keiron Cunningham will play after a pain-killing injection in his broken hand while Lee Gilmour and Sean Long make their farewell home appearances.
Wigan coach Brian Noble could also be saying goodbye as he is widely expected to leave the club at the end of the season when his contract expires.
He has no selection worries and, like Saints, names an unchanged squad.
Noble has seen his team fall at this hurdle for the last two years, both times to Leeds.
But he says he and his players have learnt enough from that experience to avoid a third year of heartbreak.
"I've certainly learned something and I'm sure the players that played in those games have learned some things and we'll be trying to apply them," he said.
"I thought the first year we went to Headingley we were stuck together with sticking plaster. There were limbs hanging off everywhere and it was a tough ask.
"Last year I thought we had the juice, we just didn't have the wherewithal mentally, but I have to say Leeds played well on both occasions.
"I think we go into this game just the same and, if we go anywhere near where we have been in the last couple of weeks, we have a good chance."
Saints coach Mick Potter is delighted to have the luxury of a full-strength side to choose from.
"If we had have played last week, Keiron and Matt Gidley would not have played and Tony Puletua would have been a bit of a worry so the rest has done these guys the world of good," he said.
The winners of Saturday's match will face Leeds in the Grand Final after the champions overcame Catalans Dragons in the other semi-final.
St Helens (from): Wellens, Gardner, Gidley, Meli, Pryce, Long, Cunningham, Graham, Gilmour, Wilkin, Flannery, Roby, Hargreaves, Puletua, Clough, Eastmond, Fa'asavalu, Dixon, Ashurst.
Wigan (from): Roberts, Carmont, Richards, Leuluai, Fielden, Riddell, Palea'aesina, O'Loughlin, J Tomkins, Coley, Hansen, McIlorum, Prescott, Pryce, Phelps, Gleeson, Mossop, S Tomkins, Flanagan.
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