Don't think anyone can gloat about winning it this year. Games being cancelled, teams being handed weeks off at a time whilst some teams played 3 games in a week...

The only people who will try and big the GF up this year, is the teams that are in it. Ultimately, after that, it's only the the team that wins it that will try and claim it as a win as good as any other year. Everyone else will wave it off as a nothing year and a final that was reached with controversial and questionable decisions in terms of the format along the way.

"What year did you win the GF?"

"2020"

"Hahaha! Eff off. That doesn't count as a proper win. Come back when you've done it in a full normal season with games every week where you weren't handed 3 weeks off and a 24-0 win."


You know for a fact thats how it will go and I for one don't want the year we finally do it to be the year where conversations like that happen. I want a legitimate full season with a big fat W over a top 4 team at a packed out OT. Only then will we be taken seriously.

Even if we win it this year and do that the year after. It'll be...

"Yeah you won it, but your first one will always never count. You've only one it once really"

I can do without a smug smirking saints, Wigan or Leeds speccie saying that to me.

I said we only had a slight chance, but it was a chance, the only game we lost was against Leeds, the game we played at less than 24 hours notice.

I really don't think any of that matters, simply because the teams that were always going to be in the play-offs are still in the play-offs. Bizarre though the season has been, it hasn't really affected who has qualified for the top six. There will still be play-offs and a final, like any other year. I really don't see how winning a grand final this year is any less of an achievement - unless of course one team in the final is scuppered by Covid absentees.

Speaking as a Wigan fan, if Warrington win the GF this year they will get full credit and no griping from me. Every team is doing their best to make the best of a terrible situation, and to keep the game from going bust due to losing the Sky money. I still think Saints are favourite, I still want Wigan to win but whoever does win will have done so as fairly as can be managed and will deserve due credit for the achievement.

When this season is done and dusted would I be correct in thinking the new season would start in February.. If so and we are still cursed with corona virus the new season could be interrupted like this one is.

I'm not sure how we could go into the next season without scrums though, what with the RLWC at the end of next year (noting NRL continued with scrums).