Quote ="Mugwump"Both Mike & Me have seen Saints achieve everything we could ever hope for:
A Saints dynasty in which trophies came thick and fast.
Winning when all seemed lost against Bradford at Wembley when Robbie Paul scored a hat-trick (for me, the best match I've attended).
Repeatedly turning Bradford over in big games when they were a BIG team (in every sense of the word) and very often hot favourites.
Ending Wigan's dominance of the sport.
A record number of consecutive victories against them.
Hammering them on their own midden in the SL playoffs.
Hammering them in a Grand Final.
Hammering them in Cardiff.
Rolling Brisbane over - arguably our greatest victory.
75-0.
Wide to West.
Millward's comedy pie wind-ups.
Tommy Martyn - the LEGEND. Making a mug out of ELLERY HANLEY. "Knock on Tommy" (Pure comedy GOLD).
Keiron Cunningham - the best SL player of all time.
Jamie Lyon (the most talented player to don a Saints jersey since, perhaps, Murphy)
Chris Joynt - Captain Fantastic.
Mal Meninga, Paul Newlove, Allan Hunte, Anthony Sullivan.
Les Quirk - The best go-to winger when you needed someone to plough in where it hurts and score under extreme pressure.
Steve Prescott's last ditch tackle at Castleford to win us our first SL title.
KC tracking back eighty metres to deny Mark Smith.
God knows how many last minute get-out-of-jail performances.
=#FF0000We've done THE LOT. Even if we are never successful again I have enough fantastic memories to satisfy a lifetime.
The irritating mote in the eye is AUSTRALIA. Whilst we've played well in the odd game, success has always eluded us. And it phucking well hurts - because the lack of even a single Test Series victory against them has held our game back enormously.
I WANT that victory. I want it so bad I'm prepared to grit my teeth and see players like Eastmond & Tomkins & Burgess go to Australia where they will develop their games further so that one day in the future we will put a hurtin' on them.
And on that day I can die a happy man.'"
Amen,
From a Wigan point of view I've seen even more (including 19 Challenge Cup Finals), but I want to be there when we beat the Aussies.
If we have to lose a few players to the NRL, then so be it.
