Coz none of us marry our sisters and we know how to breathe through our nose?

And we can pronounce bottle.

Simply put its born from frustration on their part. For years we got mullered by them and then we started competing, but that was okay because they always found a way to beat us at the death which made it all the more sweeter for them. Then the tide started turning when we became competent enough to get ahead and importantly see out games against them. The tipping point for the sheer disdain for Warrington though has come from us winning them when it counts. It must be pretty annoying for their fans when their team puts us away quite handily all through the season only to be embarassed when it comes to the knockout games. Must be maddening. So the hatred begins to stew then into what its become. Last three knock out games they've been clear favourites and its gone to their heads.

Well if you don't want to talk about the current as Wire being the only 2019 cup winners...we can talk history then as Wire have never been relegated to Div2 unike Saints.

Welcome back AS108

It must destroy you every october when that counter clicks over another year

Depends on where you look. I think most of St. Helens points came from semi-finals

Sheard’s research awarded the following points:

Championship/Super League: Winner – 100 points, runner up – 75 points, 3rd place/play-off semi finalists – 50 points

Challenge Cup: Winner – 60 points, runner up – 30 points, semi finalists – 15 points

Regal Trophy: Winner – 40 points, runner up – 20 points, semi finalists – 10 points

World Club Challenge: Winner – 30 points, runner up – 15 points



Dr Sheard’s ‘Ultimate Rugby League Table’ (Points totals in brackets)

1 Wigan (6,565)

2 St Helens (4,730)

3 Leeds (4,290)

4 Warrington (2,550)

5 Bradford Northern/Bulls (2,325)

6 Huddersfield (2,130)

7 Hull (2,085)

8 Widnes (1,910)

9 Halifax (1,840)

10 Salford (1,620)

Not quite so much this year, due to our bulging trophy cabinet.

Ah, I see what you did there... included non-major trophies in your ‘success’ classification system. Did you pull that one from somebody’s WIKI entry by chance?

If you want to include 2nd division titles like Saints possess, fine - we can’t lay claim to that one.

If you’re looking at a classification system weighted around the two major trophies and finishing position which is all anyone cares about, then you’re well behind Wigan.

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Under that objectively viewed premise, Warrington are 4th. Maybe one day we’ll get the chance at the second division.

So from 1895 when rugby league was founded up to 1975....80 years you asscertain that wire won a "hell of a lot more than saints".....wrong. between 1895 and 1975 saints won 7 championships (1930,53,59,66,70,71 and 75) to warringtons measly 3 , and its still 3 for wire but its now 13 for saints.......mind the gap

No just included league championships

I've said this many times before.
When I started watching us, in the last months of the 70's, the was NO rivalry. Zilch.
This continued throughout the 80's. The attendances for these games prove it. Nowhere near the amounts we got (or took to) Wigan, Widnes and Leigh.
The "rivalry" started after Stains started their winning run against us, and Eddie Hemmings invented a non existant hoodoo. It wasn't a hoodoo, they were just much better than us, at the time. That's sport.
The new "rivalry" took a new twist, when Wigan's form plummeted around 2005ish, and they needed a new foe. We fitted the bill. Oh how they enjoyed patting us on the head, while they picked up trophy after trophy.

Now, the worm has turned, and they're serial bokklers. Only 1 BIG trophy in 20odd attempts (and that, only because they struggled to get past 12 men, for 79 mins) , since 2008, and we like [ipiddling on their chips[/i in crucial matches, while "twerps" like LMS celebrate like they've got a ticket to The Last Supper, after winning a league game in June.

Let em stew. They're nowt.

Ahhh, the ULTIMATE desperation tactic, listing a roll of honour, when the the majority of fan's parents weren't even born. Willy measuring at its worst.

They don't have a Div2 title...they could only managed 2nd spot in promotion.

No just correcting a warrington wally who stated "saints won nothing in the first 80 years"

Saints were formed in 1873.

Until Saints started to win stuff in the 1950s the big North West rivalry was Wire and Wigan.

So what did warrington win prior to 1895 when we were all playing a different game, its a bit like bradford city fc claiming they have been champions as they were originally a rugby league club called manningham who were the first rugby league champions before switching to football , so lets just stick to rugby league honours

Saints won there first championship in 1930........18 years before warrington won there first in 1948.......if youre gonna talk crap at least have the stats to back it up, a possible reason for the wigan-wire rivalry might have been that up until the late 1930's there was 2 top flight clubs in st.helens......saints and st.helens recs who where basically the pilkington works team and became pilkington recs after folding, so it was only natural they were saints local rivals. Since recs went bust the saints-wigan rivalry really took off and warrington were dismissed by both clubs as a minor irritant which they remain to this day

So minor it brought you here. If some club beat us in the last 3 play off semis and cup final I'd consider them a pretty major irritant...as I'm pretty sure your chairman does.

That's ironic given you won your first championship in 1932.

Well if thats the case wigan must be a major irritant to you lot, warrinton are a bit like the noisy neighbours screaming look at me ive got a new skoda when saints and wigan have 6 month old ferraris parked on the drive

Weve won that many we tend to forget the years , its easier for you lot having only won 3

Challenge cup final still giving you cause for sleepless nights then, Eamonn?

...and the willy measuring (over things won DECADES ago) continues.
Who gives a stiff one over who won what, when Churchill, Wilson and Heath were Prime Ministers.
For Cliff's sake, even times under Queen Victoria's reign have been mentioned.

Back on thread, eh lads