Just before kick off and it looks like people have forgotten there's a final on.....so many empty spaces.

Is this where our game is at now? Are people really not that bothered anymore?

Well I am
I've got a Breton top and beret on, with additional string of onions around my neck. The house smells of garlic (tbf, it normally does) and the lovely Mrs G is cooking moules marinieres, with Charles Aznavour playing in the background.

All together now


Allons enfants de la Patrie
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !

Well saints are getting the rub of the green with the referee decisions. Nothing annoys me more in superleague than saints "Line Speed" they go early every time, every other team gets penalised for it.

Deserved scoreline so far really. Saints are choking Catalans really, I expect a fairly routine saints win with a nice help from Liam Moore who will allow them to step off the mark, have hands on their opposition in the ruck and go early every tackle.

Catalans are going to get precious little from Moore. Can only see a Saints win as he hasn't got the wotnots to get them back 10 yards, or stop them lying on at the ptb. Very dull game for the neutral.

To be fair to Moore, he has just made the last few minutes interesting by actually calling saints infringements. If he carries on like this then we have a game on our hands.

Matautia could have walked on another day

Scarsbrook is a proper scumbag

Saints in a final again YAWN.........yep it does get boring watching the same teams all the time. Catalans being in the final still wasn't enough to peak my interest in the game. Hopefully Catalans win so i'll google the score later.

Ended up watching it......meh.

Got to take your hat off to Saints. 3 wins on the bounce with 2 coaches.

Woolf is an odd one though, isn't he?... almost chimp-like in his mannerisms, he comes across as someone who has got a bit lucky & that Saints succeed despite him, rather than because of him.

Good coach had some big shoes to fill after Holbrook..and done it well

He had the base already in place when he arrived and even though we can argue over it, their squad is, man for man, the best in the league (I mean for example, how many of our squad are making their team?.. seriously?).

With that in mind, I'd say his 2 GF wins are pretty much a minimum.. Let's just say, if he had lost this final, I reckon many Saints fans would rightly be questioning his position... he's, unfortunately for him, in a no win position at Saints with regards to building up reputation as a top coach, as his side are undoubtedly a level above the rest.

Helllooooooooo

Congratulations to Saints, best team won on the day, OT is not a conducive venue for an open game of rugby.

Ironic that we call Saints "the bottlers" when they have won the double this year, three Grand Finals back to back, whilst we have got knocked out in the first round of the playoffs in the last three years.