Don't think anyone can gloat about winning it this year. Games being cancelled, teams being handed weeks off at a time whilst some teams played 3 games in a week...

The only people who will try and big the GF up this year, is the teams that are in it. Ultimately, after that, it's only the the team that wins it that will try and claim it as a win as good as any other year. Everyone else will wave it off as a nothing year and a final that was reached with controversial and questionable decisions in terms of the format along the way.

"What year did you win the GF?"

"2020"

"Hahaha! Eff off. That doesn't count as a proper win. Come back when you've done it in a full normal season with games every week where you weren't handed 3 weeks off and a 24-0 win."


You know for a fact thats how it will go and I for one don't want the year we finally do it to be the year where conversations like that happen. I want a legitimate full season with a big fat W over a top 4 team at a packed out OT. Only then will we be taken seriously.

Even if we win it this year and do that the year after. It'll be...

"Yeah you won it, but your first one will always never count. You've only one it once really"

I can do without a smug smirking saints, Wigan or Leeds speccie saying that to me.

Points well made. It would cheer me up to win it anyway, each to their own.

Saints win it it’s real
Wigan win it it’s real
Leeds win it it’s real
Wire win it well we didn’t really win it.


You know it I know it and that is what will happen on this board, but you know what stuff them all. Because end of day the usual suspects will be involved in the play offs.

Off to finish rest of the cooking Sherry.

That's not true, under the old format we still would have had a slight chance of making 4th, partciculary if Catalans failed to play two more games.


I don't think we will beat you, we rae playing pretty well at the moment, bt have only beaten teams below us, i jsut hope we give it a go against you or Wigan.

I don't see any negative reaction to Leeds winning the challenge cup but that could be a bit to do with the emotion surrounding Rob Burrows battle against MND.
If we do manage to do it I think in the press it will be about us winning it for the first time since the same year that Newcastle last won the FA Cup or Churchill resigned as PM.
Fans of other clubs will try and pass it off but when Saints went on the run of GF defeats between 2006 and 2014 they just wanted a win and they would not have cared that the 2014 final was about Ben Flower and that they were pushed all the way by a 12 man Wigan. It was chip paper.
It would be the same for us.
Having watched the Saints v Wigan game last week I am not
convinced we are good enough anyway. Wigan were ruthless and Saints will be a lot better when big Al is back in the team.
If we do win it we will probably have to beat saints and Wigan and considering how they played last week if we du lift the SL trophy it will be by beating the best 2 teams.

Quote Dave K.="Dave K."That's not true, under the old format we still would have had a slight chance of making 4th, partciculary if Catalans failed to play two more games. I don't think we will beat you, we rae playing pretty well at the moment, bt have only beaten teams below us, i jsut hope we give it a go against you or Wigan.'" https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/54235472 This is from 24th September and Catalans being kicked out for not fulfilling enough fixtures would be the only thing giving Hull a slight chance. I've got nothing against Hull at all but you have been out of the running for a while, to be fair to hull you've only lost once since this match but that was to Leeds who would be considered playoff rivals, the wins have been impressive though.

Quote Dave K.="Dave K."That's not true, under the old format we still would have had a slight chance of making 4th, partciculary if Catalans failed to play two more games. I don't think we will beat you, we rae playing pretty well at the moment, bt have only beaten teams below us, i jsut hope we give it a go against you or Wigan.'" https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/54235472 This is from 24th September and Catalans being kicked out for not fulfilling enough fixtures would be the only thing giving Hull a slight chance. I've got nothing against Hull at all but you have been out of the running for a while, to be fair to hull you've only lost once since this match but that was to Leeds who would be considered playoff rivals, the wins have been impressive though.

Well I would like to win it and so would many more. I cannot see the reason for being so concerned about being teased. I think we would just about manage to cope.

The Challenge Cup was a lot less valid than the GF will be.

But Leeds are the cup champions, everyone knows that, and whoever wins the GF will be SL champions.

There will be no asterisk, it'll be in the history books forever.

I desperately want to win the GF this year.

I said we only had a slight chance, but it was a chance, the only game we lost was against Leeds, the game we played at less than 24 hours notice.

I really don't think any of that matters, simply because the teams that were always going to be in the play-offs are still in the play-offs. Bizarre though the season has been, it hasn't really affected who has qualified for the top six. There will still be play-offs and a final, like any other year. I really don't see how winning a grand final this year is any less of an achievement - unless of course one team in the final is scuppered by Covid absentees.