Just wanted to check if its just me or is everyone else noticed

All I hear on Sky Sports is these two teams are gona be grand final / the real deal / a champion side/ Amazing attack / Fantastic Defence

Seems to be the we love wires, wigan and hudds show

Saints obviously dont exist anymore, not a mention! No matter how much we have been underperforming so far this season we are 2nd in league by 1 point and our points for and against look pretty good against the rest.

Anyway I will shut up now rant had!

Aye, clueless.

They lost a lot of structure in their attack faced with a good defence, Briers is a key player for them, especially as he appears to have become more professional under Smith.

You can't seriously be bothered what the twerps on SKY say, those two change their opinions to suit - they both devalue our game.

I'm not a Saints fan and you do have some of the more arrogant fans in the game. However Saints record is second to none and the style of RL played has been exceptional. A joy to watch even when on the receiving end. Warrington are flavour of the month but are yet to win a SL title, Hudds are yet to win anything and as it happens Cas are SL leaders.

Far to early to count anyone in and certainly Saints out, why even mention let alone worry about it.

Our last few games (victories) have been entertaining affairs.
Hopefully we'll see the same this Friday.

This is something I remember speaking to the old boy about last year and it seems to be happening again - Saints quietly maintaining a decent position in the league, not standing out, not getting hyped up and then when it comes to the business end of the season doing everything right to get to old trafford and that is what it's all about at the end of the day.

As for the Sky pundits, well the less said the better. The only one I really take seriously is Jon Wells.

I disagree on the Giant's being hyped up though, our defence is very good and the stats do prove that but I'm pretty sure I've only ever heard Brian Carney say we are contenders once and even then Eddy Hemmings looked at him as if to say "Stupid boy".

When I say Hyped, I think with all media now there has to be that element of hype. it seams to be the only consistent thing in the media.

For me the hype just exagerates the gap. There is a gap but it's not the chasm that the press can make it out to be. I would say that the league is starting to reflect the gap a bit more now and 2 points is a fair assessment of the gap.

It can be bridged.