Quote The Chair Maker="The Chair Maker"Congrats leeds from a Saints fan.
I think that win tonight cemented the side of Burrows, MCguire, Sinfield and Peacock as one of the all time great British RL sides over an era.
To win four out of the last five grand finals is a tremendous achievement. Lets not forget that you only failed to reach the final last year due to an horrendous injury list including to Mcguire and Peacock that saw Wigan get to the final by default.
Many will deride Saints team as chockers, but the truth is we have an excellent side, its just that its not been good enough to defeat you in major occassions for the last six or so years.
Hopefully however the experience that the likes of Gaskell and Lomax will get will bear them in good stead in years ahead, as i remember a young Sinfield Mcguire and Burrows tasting defeat before they managed to get the big wins under their belt.
Finally can i apologise to the fans in block n1408, who i presume were from Leeds, who got verbally abused just before kickoff (purely because they had got their seat location wrong) by some so called Saints fan who was quite frankly a grade A muppet.'"
I think Gaskell, Lomax and Makenson could all be top players. Gaskell isn't there yet (in the way McGuire was at his age) & took the wrong option too much thinking he could run over someone like JJB like he did Sam Tomkins. Think our youngsters Hardaker and Clarkson had pretty much flawless games, so maybe we have the next generation coming through too.
Shenton's injury definitely a big moment for us, with 3 tries down his side swiftly following.