Unfortunately, all clubs have a pondlife following. We are certainly no exception. I tend to blame the individual rather than the team or their fans collectively. RL fans are overwhelmingly a great bunch, nad I prefer to focus on the fact that 90% plus have a great craic mingling before and after matches.

In my younger "Wally Trolley" days the only place I encountered pond life hostility in the form of bricks through windows was at t' Boulevard.

The only time my dear old mum decided to attend a RL match was at Headingley....against Hull FC. She never attended again and still does not believe us when we tell her it wasn't usually like that, honest

This.

There is no way Wigan were poor. Their tries were brilliant and from deep, tearing Leeds apart. I bet if they had won they'd be saying Flower's kick on to score was fully intentional.

Perhaps they weren't poor but they were well off the pace defensively from even just over a month ago. Makes you wonder if they can maintain that level of defensive effort in the same way that the all-conquering 2006 Saints did.

But even then that team of 2006 was a very special team and also were greatly helped by their main rivals all imploding. That saints team was truly at the peak of it's powers.

Wasn't that 2006 lot the greatest team ever which was going to create a dynasty?

Create? It's part of an ongoing twenty year dynasty bro.

Aye, it must be nice to finally be better than Widnes after all those years through the 80s

You clearly never went to Naughton Park, Widnes in the 80s then ....

To be fair to Widnesians, it's the only ground at which I've ever been on the receiving end of a bombardment of custard creams...

You say that like its a bad thing.

Yeah, but to bair it was probably the players responsible for most of that...

Mmmm custard creams, the next best thing to cake.