Super League XIII Grand Final.

St Helens and Leeds will contest the most important game of the domestic season at Old Trafford on Saturday. Saints will go into the game overwhelming favourites after their comfortable thrashing over Leeds in the qualifying semi two weeks ago at the GPW Recruitment Stadium. In that match Saints dominated every area of the game. They were the better at going forward, they were better with ball in hand and their kicking game was second to none.

However, Leeds will know that it is the Grand Final match that counts. They go into this game as defending champions after a shocking win over St Helens twelve months ago that left the Saints players, coaching staff and fans bewildered. With that thought in the back of their minds, I can only see a Saints victory on Saturday.

There are also other factors that swing it Saints' way. This game will be Daniel Anderson's last in charge of the Merseyside club as he heads back home to Australia. And if that wasn't enough motivation, the thought of last years defeat will no doubt spur them on.

Leeds go into this game on the back of a tight and entertaining game against Wigan. As a team, Leeds were the better side, however certain individuals failed to show for Wigan. Taking nothing away from Leeds or Wigan, but looking at Leeds' past two results shows the gap between Saints and the rest of Super League.

The players to watch on Saturday are without a doubt James Graham and Jamie Peacock. It could be a case of the apprentice beating the master. Graham, the newly crowned Man of Steel winner, is on top form and a dead certainty for going to the world cup. Peacock, as England captain, has a reputation to prove. Both players I respect enormously and appreciate the hard work they put in time and time again. But this is one battle within a war I cannot wait to see unfold.

So who will win? St Helens. By how many? I'd say by about eighteen, although the game will not swing further than twelve points in either direction until the final ten minutes where the side who concedes late on will lose out mentally.