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Getting to Wembley can really help to build the profile of the club and I’m really happy for (chairman) Ken Davy who has backed the club with his own money.

Huddersfield Giants are going back to Wembley for the first time since the old Wembley was the new Wembley; well almost. It was in black and white and involved Eddie Waring anyway.

Lee Briers shrugs off the ghosts of semifinals past to steer the Wolves to their first Wembley final in 19 years.

Just how much his subsequent career was impacted by the crushing disappointment of being shouldered aside by Bobbie Goulding after steering his hometown club to the 1997 Wembley showpiece final will probably only ever be know by Mr and possibly Mrs Briers; the rest of us can only speculate.

Wigan welcome back skipper Sean O’Loughlin and Phil Bailey, whilst a dislocated shoulder rules out centre, Darrell Goulding. 19-man squads: Warrington: Louis Anderson, Vinnie Anderson, Matty Blythe, Chris Bridge, Lee Briers, Garreth Carvell, Jon Clarke, Mike Cooper, Ben Harrison, Chris Hicks, Paul Johnson, Matt King, Richard Mathers, Lee Mitchell, Michael Monaghan, Adrian Morley, Paul Rauhihi, Chris Riley, Ben Westwood Wigan Warriors: Amos Roberts, George Carmont, Pat Richards, Thomas Leuluai, Stuart Fielden, Mark Riddell, Iafeta Paleaaesina, Phil Bailey, Sean O’Loughlin,Joel Tomkins, Andy Coley, Harrison Hansen, Paul Prescott, Karl Pryce, Cameron Phelps, Martin Gleeson, Lee Mossop, Sam Tomkins, Mark Flanagan.

Rugby League fans have been warned to expect the unexpected this weekend when Huddersfield Giants, St Helens, Warrington Wolves and Wigan Warriors do battle for a place in the final of the Carnegie Challenge Cup at Wembley.