Quote: Judder Man "I think there are to many ambiguous variables to answer your original question. You always need something to measure it against, be it records, trophy's etc. There is also a time period, for example Saints had the same cohort team for 2 years which were considered unbeatable where as Leeds over the last 4 seasons have been average in the regular season and outside the top 3, failed in all the challenge cups, but considered unbeatable in the super league playoffs. So would you consider a team who are successful in one variable a great team.'"
Which is a fair point. I still think when people look back and write RL history. This period between 2004 - 2012 will be seen as a period of dominance by Leeds. Even withstanding the fact that we won the league, when they won the GF. And when they look at the great players of this era between those years we will look more like bridesmaids to Leeds. It's a bit like the start of the SL era, some see it as a Bradford dominated era, were as I thought we had more than our fair share of dominance during that period.
I still think our best team included the likes of Wellens, Martyn, Long, Cunningham, Scully and Joynty. They where the key players in that cohort for me. Similar to how Sinfield, Buderas, Burrows, Maguire, peacock and webb (to an extent before this year) are the brains trust for Leeds.
Saints also had other long standing players during that era as do Leeds, but I would say that these were the players that made Saints the dominate force at that time.