How did that play off series turn out for Saints again?

Another bottle job in a very long line of bottle jobs. Saying that even those have dried up now and have been replaced with the highlight of your season (going off last years example) being a scrappy victory against Wigans second team at home.

Glory days.

Haha. You're getting quite touchy this week aren't you? Are you not coping well with us being a big contender again? Embrace it mate, chill out.

Great comparison dude

In answer to your question we faired a little better than Wigan did. Of course as the title holders this year you are welcome to brag.

You have approximately 6 more months to use that right so enjoy it whilst it lasts. I'm doubt many Saints fans would argue that we where in the running last year, but if you look over more than just the short term, I can comfort myself slightly with the fact that our lean years have been limited to a drop to the top 5 and skimmishes with the eventual title holders in the Grand finals.

Now remind us all how those lean years worked out for Wigan? Or are they too far back to recall.

Banter!

Did you see my post yesterday where I said its great to have a derby where the teams are even and you couldn't call one team or other the dominant force? Well that is then what enables that banter to get going again after years of one set of supporters or the other keeping their head down until the derby was out of the way.

I'm embracing that wholeheartedly and it feels good to have it back at that level.

Tomorrow will be like the old days.

Haha. You talk as though we have been lost in the wilderness for 25 years. Admittedly we've had a rough few years but we've never been far off.

You've been pretty ordinary for 4 years and we were even worse for about 6 years before that.

10 years is a long while in my book to wait for a derby where both teams go in pretty level in the quality stakes and both have about an even shot of winning a trophy.

Problem is are we even. Even if we lose tomorrow it will mean little for when it matters. Have we been going through the motions as we did towards the back end of the last rounds of SL. This is the problem with SL 10 years ago derbys mattered for higher finishing in SL. Now it does not. Wane proved that when he fielded that weaker side last season at Saints.

If Saints or us finish 8th i would bet on it that one of us would make the Grand Final considering the standard in SL now. Week in week out SL is bloody boring now.

Wake me up when September starts.

The wind is picking up over this side of the hill, let's hope they've fixed that prefab roof at Trailer Park.

I agree it's been a while since the Good Friday derby has felt as big as this. Exciting stuff, can't wait for tomorrow.

I feel sorry for the grounds man at the DW stadium home of Wigan Athletic Football Club. Poor chap, having to constantly unearth those pesky rugby posts and paint funny straight horizontal lines all over the 11 a side pitch. I bet those rugby pests give him awful nightmares.



#GFBanter

Saints have won one Championship in 12 years #wilderness

Nice use of numbers, you are to be congratulated on making it seems as though it's been 12 years since we won a GF. More like 8 but still almost a generation.

Having said that if we are in the wilderness, I've no idea where the rest of the league have got lost, because outside of Wigan and Leeds no one has had a championship in more recent years than Saints.

The problem is when you compare yourself against the best, we forget that there are those who have not even had a sniff in the entirety of SL and even less if you look at the decades just before SL.

Haha. Extend that timeframe by 2 years and we've won more than you in that period.

In other words, you can dress up facts however you like to make them suit your agenda.

Extend the time frame by 100 years and see who has won the most trophys RL did not start when Super League started before that we won more trophys than you lot did .

Cheers for that. You're simply proving and agreeing with my point about using facts any which way you want in order to win an argument or suit your agenda. Thanks again.

Ps what has 1996 got to do with anything? Nobody mentioned the start of Super League until you did.

It's not like Saints fans to be selective with dates is it. Well they had a spell of success at the turn of the century so I'll give them that #wilderness

Haha. That must have been a decent "spell" seeing as it made us the most successful side of the Super League era.

Seems so long ago now I'd basically forgotten about it. Wigan, Leeds and the Wolfs are the daddies now

Haha. I'm not sure Warrington have ever been a/the "daddy!"

I have always wondered, which team is the most successful rugby league club since the inception of the fine sport?

I'm fairly sure it's Doncaster.

Your reply to the previous post is a perfect example of someone short of giving a straight answer(or blind to the facts) to the question posed.

If you are there tomorrow please stand at the back or stick your neck in, only banter please keep it up

Haha I'll be sat in my usual seat in the North Stand but I'll give you boys a wave don't worry.

I take it the answer wasn't Doncaster then