Quote Wires71="Wires71"OK fair enough. I picked the period of 5 years as it was the period since the last time we won a major trophy and it's probably a period in which we would have thought, back then in 2012, that we would in all likelihood win a GF in.
I was a massive Smith fan when he joined, and he had great success in the first 4 years. But the midas touch has long, long since gone.
For balance I have included the other clubs GF CC and WCC appearances and LLS, in the same period. Wins are shown in bold. I'm not sure this improves the position for Warrington.
Wigan - SL, SL CC, WCC, LLS, GF GF GF GF CF WCCF WCCF Domestic double.
Leeds - SL, SL CC CC WCC, GF GF CF CF WCCF WCCF WCCF Domestic treble.
St Helens - SL, LLS, GF. WCCF
Hull - 1CC, CCF CCF
Warrington - LLS. GF GF GF, CCF
Huddersfield - LLS
Castelford - CCF
Hull KR - CCF'"
Thanks it is more balanced and I will leave this particular debate here, but, will leave you a final thought or two. As we are on a Smith Out thread if you take stock of our "barren" years what result would you expect in comparison to our peers and if you took stock of the Tony Smith Years from 2009 to 2016 does our position change?
It is prestigious but the WCCF does skew the length of the honours line above win a GF it's BIGOF
I think that even in our barren years it could be argued that we were 4th on the success ladder the disappointment was that we didn't get a couple of emboldened GF's along the way?
