Niot seen this been done before. I'll be biased and go for Widnes 89 Just from the highlights i have seen, it was golden rugby. Tony Myler, Davies and Offiah alone linking up is one of the best things I could witness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lujvWbnqq3k Tell me your stories, what year would get your vote and which team?

Niot seen this been done before. I'll be biased and go for Widnes 89 Just from the highlights i have seen, it was golden rugby. Tony Myler, Davies and Offiah alone linking up is one of the best things I could witness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lujvWbnqq3k Tell me your stories, what year would get your vote and which team?

In my lifetime - Bradford '03. All conquering.

Best team of the SL era IMO, and that includes Saints '06.

Wigan

1988
1989
1990
19 . . . Oh what the hell, let's round it off to a decade. The 90's. Wigan. Outstanding.

Based on being old enough to form an opinion I would say Leeds in 2004. No team got close to us that year. Won the league by a record margin and played amazing stuff with a team full of academy players when it was far from the norm.

wigan 1990 - 1992 era would take some beating for the players they had plus the style they played in, but i'll go for wigan 1987 - won 29 games in a row and an all english team won the world club challenge

Wakefield Trinity 62-63

As this is an "All Time" not "Team I've seen" question there is only one answer - the Huddersfield "Team of All Talents" that dominated the game before the Great War, culminating in winning "All Four Cups" in 1915.

hunslet did the same thing in 1908, not sure how many years they dominated for though

For me would definately be Saints team of 06...

Lost 4 games in all competitions (by 1,2,3 & 4 points), won Challenge Cup, League Leader's shield, Grand Final, went on to win WCC after that and also cleaned up in individual awards for Man of Steel, Coach of the Year, Young Player of the Year, Team of the Year and also went on to win BBC Team of the Year and BBC Coach of the Year at Sport's Personality awards...

Only time all have been won and the brand of RL we played that year was by far the best I have ever seen, therefore would be 2006 Saints by a mile for me

Winning all four cups in a year when most teams had been decimated due to the fact that the majority of their players were fighting for their lives in a field in France is not really a great boast. Why not try a year during peacetime when everyone has a fair amount of players to pick from?

If that were true it would be a good point. Unlike the Second World War there was not a wartime League programme with guest players etc. After the 1914-15 season the sport was suspended for the duration. However the 1914-15 was a full legitimate League season (as was the 1914-15 soccer season).

The Leeds team of 2004 doesn't get the credit it deserves. Pre SL there's loads to choose from, the Wigan side of the late 80s-mid 90s. The Wakey and Leeds teams of the 60s, Huddersfield's team in the early 20th century

Sts 06 v Wigan 92(ish) would be a great game!

So you dont think that team were affected at all by the First World War, how strange.

The Leigh team that pipped Hull to the Championship in 1982 (containing the likes of John Woods and Des Drummond) was a fine team.

The last team to be crowned English RL champions with an all English squad.

Wakefield Trinity 1962-3 but had a great team all that decade I was never there but grew up and still to this day hearing from my dad how great that team was. We're still waiting for the good times to come back hopefully they will soon

Psg 95

The year Saints won everything including BBC team of the year.
They where the best team in the world at that time.

I would go for Saints, but not the all conquering 2006 one, this would be the 1966 year when they won every cup going against tough opposition and not like the annual top 4 you get in Superleague.

Didn't win the one that matters - BBC Floodlit Trophy.

Impossible to say, can't compare sides from the full time professional era to the ones that weren't, not a level playing field, you just have to see the all conquering Wigan team of the 80's/90's to see that.

Genuine question for Sts fans - how come Sts 2006 were apparently so much better than the bookend 2005 or 2007 teams? In 2005 they didn't even make the GF, and in 2007 they were mullered by Leeds. TBH don't think that any side can be classed as 'great' based on a single year.

2005 we missed the final after losing Sean Long, Lee Gilmour & Darren Albert before playoff games thanks to Terry Newton and struggled with injuries at the wrong time. 2007 we won CC again, finished top of the league and lost 1 game at OT that meant we missed out on the SL title.

A bit of a flawed argument saying it was based on 1 year when we finished top of the league 2005-2008, showing how consistent we were during that 4 year period and lifted the CC 2006 - 2008. Hardly just a 1 off 2006 season is it.

In comparison, how can Leeds 2004 team (or any recent Leeds team) be considered as they havent won the Challenge Cup?? That is a similar argument is it not??

Yeah exactly, Saints were the best team in 05 by a margin but got to the playoffs and were dragging kids from the stands to play. I think in the final playoff game they played it was basically Jamie Lyon stick.. he must have played everywhere that day. Just bad luck.
In 2007/2008 they were odds on favourites and walked most of the season only to get beat by the underdogs in a one off game that was the grand final. It certainly wasn't just one year and had things been ever so slightly different it could have been Saints with how many titles in x years