I'll be happy for them to be grand final winners, if we can't (some hope there I know), but I'd rather someone else won the challenge cup as I think their win at Huddersfield was an early Christmas present from Bentham.

I'm sure they'll be thrilled to know you have OKed them to win the GF

What I'm genuinely interested to see is what will happen when the going gets tough? The Easter period plagued the Giants under Nathan Brown for multiple reasons. Paul Anderson showed last season that it wasn't entirely down to the team; Nathan Brown really struggled to turn the team around when they went into a slump. In three of the four seasons he started in charge it wasn't unfamiliar to see the Giants contending at the top going into May.

I firmly believe at this point that he is an excellent coach and will have learnt masses from his experience at the Giants, but it still remains to be seen if he can turn around a good team in a slump.

As for the Giants and Paul Anderson the same applies: can he pull a team, in a bit of a slump, struggling for any consistency out of it and get them playing well. I think yesterday they showed they can play well for periods, they just need to get the consistency back and that does fall to the coach.

I may have gone off at a tangent here….

I think we will do ok, but you never know. We were more convincing with half a team out against an in form Leeds side, than we were with a full team against a stuttering Huddersfield side.

I was pretty convinced with 20 to go we were not going to pull off a win. The Ferres audition for WrestleMania changed our chances dramatically.

You obviously can't read very well. I did say if we can't. In fact I'd sooner anyone other than you won it. Happy now??

Were riding our luck so far this season but we've had no easy games over the last 4 weeks with Wigan,Widnes & Leeds still to come

COYS

Saints are doing very well, but are seriously riding their luck at the moment. 50/50's all going their way at the crucial business end of games, flick passes out the back door and bounce balls are coming up perfectly.

Thats the old saints way of playing off the cuff rugby, 5 drives and a kick doesn't work when we were being dominated by the cas pack. Its creating chances and its worth it if you get better than 50/50 because its something the opposition can't plan to defend against, its like the Leeds coach said a few weeks ago they are a dangerous side because you never know what they are going to do.

Is this the drop goal your team failed to get despite numerous attempts? You missed and your out, simples

Wow , a couple of good seasons and your lot's sense of self importance to the world of RL is restored to it's epic deluded levels.

Sometimes you make your own luck though, but as you say games are won and lost on the bounce of a ball/

Yeah, and saints have certainly done everything in their power to engineer these situations, it has to be admired.

It looks like this will be a very special season for sintellins.