Wigoons very much deserved the win but it was a very poor game and could be one of the worse Grand Finals so far. It will be a struggle to give us a 5 mins of match highlights.

We can talk about funding, league structure, salary caps, or whatever, but the best (and easiest) thing the game here can do to improve itself is to fix the ruck and the play the ball. Honestly, the wrestling and constant slowing the game down is killing the spectacle.
Refs think being lenient and 'letting the game flow' is the way to go, but it clearly isn't working. They introduced the 6 again to speed the game up, but they never use it.

There's no happy medium with ruck speed. I can remember threads on here 15-20 years ago bemoaning the scootathon nature of games. If you had a hooker who was quick out of play the ball you could march up the field really quickly and easily and people would complain that we weren't getting to see any classy halfback play, no structured attacks to overcome well set defenses.

Fast forward to today and it's the opposite. Dummy half scoots are far less common, and most of the game is attackers running at a set defensive line that is well organised and difficult to get past

The 2008 world cup was the turning point. The consensus was that the speed of the ruck in SL resulted in England not being able to handle the wrestling tactics of the southern hemisphere teams. Of course, having the likes of Paul Sykes, Lee Smith and Rob Purdham in the starting line up had nothing to do with it
Despite the wrestling, the NRL seem to have got the balance right, but it seems we're not even trying to improve it over here.

The truth is there is no best season ever. Can only really talk in eras. The first decade or so of super league was the best IMO, in terms entertainment, quality of play, there were more good imports then, and the individual quality of British players was exceptional. Think Farrell, Sculthorpe, Cunningham, Harris, Robinson etc. I’m not talking how England did internationally, or comparisons with the far superior Aussie game, I just mean for fans of super league as its own entity, that was the best IMO. There was also a sense of optimism, that things were growing, getting better, developing.

In general, it’s so so stale now. IMO. Everything is so non-descript, this years grand final a prime example.

Prob not best ever as not enough real stars in the game at the moment but best for many years. Pity about the GF… one try and very systematic play from both teams thought when Cats could beat Wigan in the grind they would have played more expansively, think the 2 sun bins and the tough semi final took a way the extra energy they needed at the end. Didn’t reflect the unpredictable and dynamic rugby we have had all season.

What a daft question. I'd say it's been the worst. Two decent teams in Wigan and Catalan the rest are crap. SL is probably at the lowest it's ever been standard wise.

I'd say it's been better than the last few seasons

Aye it wasn't the best was it? Like two battered and tired teams. When you look at the NRL GF you could weep. Like different sports. Mind you there were no Nathan Cleary's or Adam Reynolds' on the field either. It is what it is!