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50494_1274104673.jpg [quote="wearethewire":3otazmtq]expect nothing, anything more is better[/quote:3otazmtq]
[quote="Wires71":3otazmtq]And there is the Warrington motto in a nutshell. No wonder we were dog dirt for 20 years [/quote:3otazmtq]
[quote="madoggy":3otazmtq]hope saints win it, if wigan dont win another league title for 100 years they would still have more than everyone [/quote:3otazmtq]:d7dc4b20b2c2dd7b76ac6eac29d5604e_50494.jpg |
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| This Warrington team is a brilliant one and must surely be the best Wire team in their history. But (and this is from a St Helens hating Wigan fan) the Saints team from 06 has been the best team for the best part of two decades. I think they had a genuine case for claiming to be the best club side in the world back then. I'd say the only other two sides who you could mention in the same breath would be the recent Leeds team and the Bradford side from the early 2000's (in the SL era of course)!
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2595.jpg I'm not Jesus Christ, I've come to accept that now.
[quote][b]XBrettKennyX wrote:[/b] Once more the anti SC brigade, purposely or otherwise fail to see the point.
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| What a hilariously poor attempt at trolling.
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| So the wire team that has never made a gf and will finish 2nd is better than the saints team that won everything in sight?
Even our awful team whipped wire this year.
Ooooookaaaaay.
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| Quote: Fatbelly "Nope don't want another go thanks. Job done 1st time round.'"
Your previously strongly suspected status as preposterous troll is finally revealed and proved incontrovertibly. You are worthy of naught but derision and pity. Consider yourself derided and pitied.
The current Wire squad is leagues ahead of any other team at the moment, but in the SL era overall can in no way shape or form be seriously compared to Saints '96, '00 or '06, or to many of the Bradford sides of the early '00s, or some of the Wigan sides around the turn of the '00s, or even probably to Leeds '07 or '09. Any reasonable and knowledgeable Wire fan (I'm sure there must be some out there ![Wink icon_wink.gif](images/smilies//icon_wink.gif) ) would recognise and acknowlede this simple fact. Only a one-eyed clueless fool could argue otherwise.
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53317_1346348051.jpg Championship (3 times): 1947–48, 1953–54, 1954–55
Challenge Cup Winners (8 times): 1904–05, 1906–07, 1949–50, 1953–54, 1973–74, 2009, 2010, 2012
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| Quote: Saint Rabban "Wellens
Gardner
Lyon
Talau
Meli
Pryce
Long
Cayless
Cunningham
Anderson P
Wilkin
Gilmour
Sculthorpe
Graham
Roby
Fa'asavalu
Hooper
Coach
Hooper was our Loose Forward that year as Sculthorpe hardly played if at all.....
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| Disappointed at so many for biting!
The 2006 Saints were the best team since Wigan's invincibles and every team in Super League is currently a mile away from their standard.
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| Comparing Wire of 2012 to Saints of 2006 is very unfair. Firstly Saints won the league in 2006, maybe Saints in 2007 would be a bit better. Actually it isn't fair as Saints finish top that year (rather than second).
What have Warrington done differently this year to any of the last 5, 10, 20, 30 seasons that makes the Wire posters think they can even make the Grand Final no matter win it. ![DRUNK icon_biggrin.gifRUNK:](images/smilies//icon_drunk.gif)
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| To be honest why are people biting on this??? Every season is different and you cant compare teams that are 6 years apart for christ sakes. Ridiculous attempt at trolling and more fool the people who have risen to it...
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| I would suggest that Warrington supporters can be very proud of winning three Challenge Cups in the past four years and also to have been in the top two positions in 2011 and 2012.
However, with just two play-off wins in their history they will need to at least compete in a Grand Final before asking for comparisons to be made with genuine Champions.
My view is that they will have this year and perhaps next year if they are lucky before the squad fragments. After all the nucleus of their squad are aged over 30 with eleven players from their starting seventeen being included such as Hodgson, J Monaghan, Briers, Morley, M Monaghan, Carvell, Waterhouse, Westwood, Higham, Wood and Solomona.
Should they secure a title or two they can legitimately claim comparison.
But there is no doubt in my mind that the St Helens team in their prime with the likes of Cunningham, Sculthorpe, Long, Lyon, Roby, Graham and Pryce would have done anything other than steam roll this ageing side.
The sides that used to come down to my club London used to play us off the park on our borrowed Union ground rather than simply target the weaker club trained players and were amazing ball players. Warrington have never played anything like that standard at the Stoop.
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| Quote: Billinge_Lump "What a hilariously poor attempt at trolling.'"
And what, as a Mod, have you done about it?
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| Now then it's time for part two.
Firstly you need to know that I am comparing the 2012 Warrington team against the 2006 Saints team. A lot of you became apoplectic when I said that 2012 Mickey Higham is better than the 2006 James Roby. Before you get your shell suits all creased up again read, remember I have compared this years 2012 Warrington team against the Saints team of 2006 & not today's team.
So here it is again.
1 Hodgson Vs Wellens = Hodgson
2 Riley Vs Gardner = Riley
3 Ratchford Vs Lyons = Lyons
4 Atkins Vs Talau = Ryan
5 Monas J Vs Meli = Joel
6 Briers Vs Pryce = Lee (and you know it)
7 Myler Vs Long = Long ( but Richie is only 22)
8 Moz Vs Cayless = Moz
9 Monas M Vs Cunningham = Cunningham (but only just)
10 Carvell Vs Anderson P = Carvell
11 Westwood Vs Wilkin = Benny all day long
12 Waterhouse Vs Gilmour = Trent
13 Ben Harrison Vs Scully = Scully (legend)
14 Mickey Higham Vs Roby = Mickey (as with Richie I have compared the 2006 Sts team with our team today, so it Mickey)
15 Woody Vs Graham = Graham
16 Hill Vs Fa'asavalu = Hilly
17 Grix Vs Hooper = Hooper
Coach: Tony Smith Vs Daniel Anderson = Tony Smith
Out of the 18 comparisons I make it Warrington taking 12 wins.
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| Quote: Fatbelly "Firstly you need to know that I am comparing the 2012 Warrington team against the 2006 Saints team.'"
Ok, so given that logic, your first selection is -
Quote: Fatbelly "1 Hodgson Vs Wellens
Right. Remind me, who won Man of Steel in 2006?
As someone else said, jog on.
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