can you lot of saints fans now feck off back to the little bubble called the vee now

Saints have been the best team all year (except of course at Wembley).Most RL fans accept that. It's sad however, that a magnificent season has been tarnished by the unsporting behaviour of McManus.

Only because certain small minds chose to bring it up, a predictable preprepared response to a Saints win. Same people trying to whip up faux controversy at the refereeing. Proud of the chairman. An outstanding corporate citizen.

As for the acknowledgment Saints have been the best team its hardly a gesture of magnanimity. A record 16 points clear of second infers its a statement of the obvious.

By far the best, congratulations on the treble, oh wait.

Oh, I forget to mention their arrogant fans. Not all them though, it's just 99% of them that give all the others a bad name.

Yes the ref was poor but Saints deserved their victory their forwards were immense.A young British coach taking a Salford side to the Grand Final with players no S.L. side wanted is unheard of.No money poor attendances having to sell their top half back Lui to Leeds 2 months ago.Watson deserves his Great Britain call up he has learnt his trade of first Tony Smith when dual redg with Swinton then Tim Sheens at Salford.Now he goes to work under the greatest coach of all time Wayne Bennett this will benefit Salford next season.

Well done on winning the end of season comp and winning the league..champion team there's no doubting that but if there was a championship for moaning fans saints would win it hands down

Id give up la, you sound just as narrow minded as the ‘99%’ of Saints fans. Still you could try ‘I’m a neutral but’ or a (despite finishing 16 points clear) ‘Saints have been the best team’ to hide the inevitable petty and small minded gripe.

I've never read such utter bollox since beware of shadows learnt to speak...jeez..saints get thumped Good style at Wembley and the refs crap..win at old Trafford and the ref is brilliant... Says it all really..bad losers

Hang on, are you two confusing me for a Warrington fan?
If their fans have been bad or whatever, that's terrible but irrelevant.

The only club which has, from the top, systematically slated a referee is St Helens. Hence the controversy about Hicks and about Kendall's calls last night.

Course you can obstruct if have the ball in hand..blimey how old are you 8....you see it every week..that try was well worked off the training ground but to come out with nonsense shows what you know about the game...

The fact this is 30 pager just sums up how bad Kendall was.

More than what your chairman was like after Wembley...go get your ironing done dear

Yes ,well done Saints for the win & i just hope Salford can keep enough players for next season to build on & continue their resurgence.

I thought the Percival try was an excellent effort as was the Taia try from the scrum.

The fact you’ve contributed so compulsively over the course of it shows how obsessed you are. Kendall went ok.

It shouldn't be of any suprise fans of that joke club Wakefield are leading the protests about the referee yesterday on this thread. They're well practised in bleating about officials. It's all they're known for.

By contrast, the Salford fans have been well dignified in defeat. Whatever calls went in Saints favour I do reckon they had another gear in then had they needed to. I'm not keen on the wools, but they're worthy Champions.

Question is though, with top players moving on, can Salford remain highly competitive next season? The clubs which finished around them Wigan, Cas and Wire are not much to be feared so with some clever signings and a very shrewd operator in Ian Watson, they could well be in with a shout of getting to the GF again.

The Salford fans were a credit to the club. I felt the game needed a Saints/Wigan vs Salford final to break apathy. The question over how Salford would be supported was answered positively in an emphatic manner. A great atmosphere but equally laid back as well.

I think Salford will go ok next year; they’ve a good system and are very strong off the field. Hastings is a huge miss and a great signing by Wigan but Watson will keep them up there. Hopefully Salford will grow as a club as our sport needs to, I believe we’ve stagnated recently so all the more reason a ‘new’ team needed in the final.

What a weird Thread.
As I see it, St Helens have been the #1 side in SLXXIV by an extremely large margin. The lost just 4 games out of 35 played across both competitions. The CC Final was an off day for them, the 2 losses to London were down to both a few missing players and London stepping up and the other loss was away to Catalan, who have a pretty good Home Record. Other than that, they beat everyone in front of them and finished 16 points ahead of 2nd place. They won the hubcap last year by 10 points. They have lost 5 of their last 52 SL regular season games, so whatever Wire or whatever other club want to say about their fans and referees etc, it's a pointless exercise to do anything other than hail them as the #1 team in terms of consistence in the last 24 months. They have featured in the last 4 major finals...has any other team achieved that in the Summer era?

Well they weren't in the 2018 cup final so it's only three.
But anyway yes Leeds appeared in the 2011 and 2012 cup finals and the 2011 and 2012 Grand Finals.

Wigan played Warrington in 2018 at OT

Well you're half right. If the stat is corrected to reality rather than made up nonsense, then a few other sides have managed it! Including wire who made 3 of the last 4 despite not being the all conquering saints side which I'm sure you want to point out that your version of Wikipedia says have now just completed the double treble!!!They deserve the league leaders shields and also a major trophy, fact is they should have won more for their dominance.

Chris Kendall didn't have the best of games did he ?? But in no way whatsoever did it influence the result.

I stand corrected on the point about the CC final 2018 but my point is still valid.

They were have been the most dominant force in domestic regular season games for 24 months and anyone who argues otherwise is being disingenuous. 5 Losses in 52 regular season games is pretty impressive....Wigan who finished 2nd twice lost 18!

I’ve seen you post some crap but that’s terrible even by yo standards, he’s got a team with literally 13 world class players even I could manage that team. Craig Bellamy is the best manager in the world