Leeds still have a few good years from mcguire burrow and sinfield but they are already feeding one or promising replacements into the team. Saints, have sucessfully regenerated the team from the long/pryce days and will only improve over the coming years. Wigan play a structured game with tomkins injecting unpredictability, a change of halves will not have much impact.

Pah, stop it with the doom and gloom. There is no one at Leeds to replace any of them. Saints are horrific 90% of the time, awful backs and no halfbacks. Wigan will collapse into 3rd or 4th once little Sam trolls off to play Union. He spent another weekend down South with Saracens when you were winning the Challenge Cup. Warrington have as good a chance as any both this year and over the next 5 IMO.

Can't disagree with most of that. There's going to be a lot of very, very ordinary teams contesting trophies over the next few years and Warrington, while soon to be without a lot of key players through retirement, will be as well placed as anyone else to be amongst them. There just isn't the talent in key positions available any more to replace the likes of Briers, Pryce, Hodgson, Sinfield etc. etc. when they hang up the boots and they need to be replaced by mediocrity which will inevitably level up the competition.