The incredible St Helens Rugby Football League club have been so good this year, so truly exceptional in everything they've done, that they are named club of the year.

Whoever dreamt up the Stobart deal is now well and truly off the hook.

Congratulations to them.

I am surprised the London broncos did not win it!

Wtf? Won it for doing what?

Do you have any idea what the judging critera was for this award or is your mockery purely based on your opinion of their on-field perfomances ?

Quality of toilet paper at the ground? baby changing facilities? Use of tetleys tea bags?

That cladding must be bloody fantastic

What's the criteria?

Finally patched up the bike shed, oh and a bit of youth development. Also think someone mentioned that they'd not lost as much dosh as was expected and well, that's about it.

At least the other SL clubs now know how high the bar is for this prestigious award.

Oh Dear.

Who actually cares?

So you are suggesting that the facilities (including behind the scenes) at Langtree Park are substandard; your assessment is that their youth development programme is poor; and their financial stablitity questionable ?

Obviously didn't include growing your customer base given st's lost nearly 20% of their crowds this year.

Why do people find it so hard to comprehend the difference between the two concepts- 'club' of the year (announced last night) and 'team' of the year (decided over 80 minutes at Old Trafford)?

It gives them something to place in their trophy cabinet I suppose!

If people want to slate this then at least say who should have won it and why...

They won it for finally managing to get Lance Hohaia to have a good game late in the season.

Oh dear. Talk about waste of a thread. Congratulations Saints.

Not sure why it's so funny, especially when most people on here don't seem to know the criteria for winning the award.
I also don't understand the mentality of supporters of a club who are tenants taking the mick out of a club who own their own top class stadium and facilities.
Well done Saints.

Didn't you know you're not allowed to do good things in RL? It just shows that Saints are going the right way in all aspects. Like I said, well done the red V.

I think the biggest laugh might backfire. I look at your Avatar and see the loss of your stadium has transformed to a
giant bronze rugby ball in a tesco carpark, our youth academy are now embarking on a tour of Australia, maybe the wigan version is a night out in King Street.

On a serious note it is probably not being the best on every parameter but doing very well in all areas of stadia, development, community, charity, corporate events, training facilities etc etc.
The criteria is obviously off field and not performance on it. Maybe the new rugby stadia of Warrington, Widnes and St Helens is the encouragement for the leagues future, so a reward has been created for it.

Leave off, he was brilliant in Galaxy Quest!

Missy Pyle had a great rack, certainly improved with age unlike Lance

best bit of business the NZ Warriors did in ages offloading that.......and I don't mean Missy who I would happily offload [size=50on[/size any day of the week!

I think it's mainly an award for progressing a club forwards. If we still had licences (franchising) then Saints would probably have moved up to a grade A by now.

I don't think there is any point scoring system, it's just recognition for a club progressing itself off the field.

There are some clubs eg Hull and Wigan who have little room to go anywhere in terms of developing stadia as they are already at a high level.

In a way the award would become redundant if every club had implemented all the off-field requirements to the max.

I'm sure in the coming years, other teams will get it when they move forwards on their own off-field development. It's not always going to be the league toppers, or those with the best academy or stadia, but it will be those who are progressing forwards.

It's a nice accolade for a Chairperson as recognition for there work.

You could call it Chairman of the year award. Would not surprise me to see the good Dr. getting it in the near future if he sticks by Salford.