Top 5 is still out of the question with such an inconsistent bunch of players.

I disagree. With the station we've had, top 5 has only just been ruled out. If we'd got our act together a month earlier we'd be talking about the play offs. In many ways in glad we're not, because I think it would have papered over cracks

Top five is hardly any achievement anyway, with the state of the teams this year. Even top two is hardly that. Such a huge gap, from top to rest.

Absolutely. Poor league, us being toward the bottom is pretty dire

The standard is appalling. This Saints team are no world beaters.

As usual with fans of teams not doing well, they tend to be disingenuous to the team at the top and the league as a whole.
Saints are a great team, who play with an aggression and a shape few can match when at full strength. They'd give any other successful team in the SL era a game.

Indeed they would. But as I say they're no world beaters. The standard imo for several years including when we won it last is average at best

Yep. Their speed across the team along with their speed and accuracy of passing on top of a big strong pack make them a very very good team. Up there with the best SL era teams we’ve seen in my opinion.

I really hope you're correct.

Just remember the times Leeds have come up with a large surge

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If you think that about this saints team you should stop posting pal.

If Saints do win the title, as they deserve to, it will be very interesting to see how they fare in the WCC - depending on how much of their squad they can keep together now.

Mark of a real era champion side is taking out WCC titles: I know the Aussies haven't always taken it seriously enough but I remember when we played Canterbury at Elland Road and the intensity we took into that was unbelievable.

My personal pick would be the game we won against Melbourne for intensity.

yes real war of attrition

What elements of the game are this Saints team currently lacking?

Blue and Amber shirts? It's about all I can think of...

Normally I support an underdog when Leeds are out of a competition, but I hope Saints win both the Challenge Cup and Grand Final. They are so far ahead of anyone else it would be an injustice for them not to win the treble.

Biggest one of all. Any competition.

This. This and thrice this ^

Hope so

And they’ve run away with the league. That 2nd place isn’t closer to them doesn’t make them a worse team.

Which teams are we comparing them to? Saints of 05/06? Bradford of 03?

Neither.

Don't kid yourself, they would get smashed by a lot of past teams and I'm talking kid table teams from 5-10 years ago.

The league this year is such poor quality, they are the best of a bad bunch.

Name one of these mid-table teams. Utter nonsense.

I wish there was a bit more competition but these sorts of 'back in the day' throwaway statements make me laugh. All smacks of sour grapes.

I’ll give one glaring example, and I don’t think that team was all that either. But the 2017 Cas team in very similar run away, were much better than this Saints side. And although competition also not all that, was better than 2019’s lot.

2017 “back in the day” was the bomb

I totally agree. It's pure nonsense to say the game doesn't develop and move on each year.

This Saints team should be praised highly for their level of consistency all year.
Absolutely fantastic team.

Our golden generation team couldnt have performed anywhere near the level Saints performed at last week with the number of key men missing Saints had.

To say mid table teams from 10 years ago would beat them is laughable.