Regardless of what professionals say about other professionals in the interest of possibly being team-mates for England etc etc.... I think the vast majority of us know feelings under the surface are different to the attitudes shown and exhibited.

There are ego's and therefore to some extent arrogance in most of the teams, but in Wigan it is rife! Tomkins will get found out and smashed regularly in the NRL when he jumps ship mark my words!

You can have the useless hubcap of a league leader's shield.... We'll be content with the GF me thinks!!!

That's probably one of the reasons leeds are so successful at rearing young talent in the modern era. They bring them into the team and they have the protection of Ryan Bailey.

TBH the game is totally different now so "protection" isn't needed, instead it's about playing behind a pack that's going forward and making ground.

There aren't hardmen/psychos like Sorensen/Grima etc around nowadays, Bailey isn't in their league for nastiness nor would he get away with that kind of thing now if he tried.

Leeds are successful now because they have the right culture in the club and a clear pathway from the juniors to the 1st team. In the 90s the opposite was the case.

No we're not. According to most on RLFans we're so succesful because of the structure of the playoffs.

Apologies for noticing all those trophies being won when it really matters

And the fact that Hetherington owns the RFL, don't forget that.