SAINTS will have to meet fire with fire if they are to nullify the flames of the rampant Dragons and make it through to Old Trafford.

Front-rower Kyle Amor knows only too well that a massive responsibility lies on the broad shoulders of the front row for what he describes as a “last man standing” battle.

And although Dragons are running hot at the moment after consecutive play-off wins at Leeds and Huddersfield, the big Cumbrian believes the Saints pack will roll up its sleeves and deliver the winning platform.

Amor, who has enjoyed a fine first season since joining from Wakefield, knows Saints must master heavyweights Oliver Elima, Jeff Lima and Julian Bousquet in the heat of the battle.

The popular prop said: “If us middle men can do our part of the deal and work hard and lay the platform, that will allow other people to work off the back of that.

“Getting to the big games is everything you play for as a player — there is so much a stake and one as a front-rower you look forward to.

“Come eight o’clock you will see two packs going at it hammer and tongs and it will be last man standing.”

After Saints had suffered their injuries, many a pundit and spectator thought that a season that had started with such promise was done and dusted, so the rally of recent weeks that has taken the team one hurdle from Old Trafford has come as a real bonus.

But Amor indicates that within the camp the players think of it differently — and they have their own motivation, belief and no shortage of talent to see them through this crunch period.

“We have had people write us for a while now and it is not something we have been too affected by. We have concentrated on our own bubble because we know we still have a lot of quality in the team — we have won the league and now we are 80 minutes away from a Grand Final.

“At the end of the day you can’t cry over spilt milk and dwell on the great players who are missing, but I genuinely believe that has allowed others to showcase what they can do and they have fitted straight in.

“We have had to change what we are doing, but I think in the last couple of weeks I think we have really nailed that — and long may that continue,” Amor said.

Looking down the Catalan squad list, it is clearly a roster that is much better than their league position states, and that they are only so low down because of a disastrous early part of the year decimated by injury.

Amor agreed: “They are not a seventh-placed team really. They lost a lot of their early rounds due to the injuries and players backing up from France’s World Cup, but they have come good at the crucial part of the season.

“But it is about the 17 men that are going to pull the red vee jumper on on Thursday.

“We know it is going to be tough on Thursday night, but we are fully prepared for the challenge and hopefully we can get there.”