Well since that day we've won three Grand Finals, a Challenge Cup and two League Leaders shields so I suppose it's only right your much smaller club gets a rare day in the sun. I certainly wouldn't swap our haul of honours in that time for yours. The trophy cabinet at the TWS is nearly collapsing under the sheer weight of silverware.

It's a shame. Personally, I quite like when we get interaction on here from fans of opposing sides. Adds a bit of interesting opinion to what can be pretty blinkered debating and, this might not be a universally popular view, I actually like most of the stuff that Saddened and his sort contribute.

However, it often gets ruined when you get sad blokes like this plastic scouser lad, who just wants to turn a perfectly valid and interesting debate into a dick-measuring contest about how great his side are... its like he has zero awareness about the fact that most of us on here are perfectly aware of where we stand in the RL ladder, and that we somehow need a constant reminder of how wonderful a club his side are.

Maybe one day the lad will grow up, find a girlfriend, and realise there's more to life than pointlessly waving his unused member about on RL forum??....

Was that the game where Saints won the trophy as soon as the team bus pulled into Wembley?
I remember it well. Good day, that.

Back to the game...

Reflects the season really. Which is a change for the final as it's usually a much closer affair. Leeds have had the effort but haven't really spent much time on Saints line, except for some poor Saints discipline. It's rare you see so many penalties / 6 agains in a grand final so I'll be interested to see how Moore's count compares to other referees in recent finals.

Highly predictable affair. How have saints been so much stronger, faster and fitter under Woolf? An obvious but genuine question….

It's really strange how the Sky comms actually will Saints to score isn't it

Saints undoubtedly deserved it, both on the day and over the course of the season.

However, my overriding feeling is one of intense relief that this car crash of a season is over. The events on the pitch have drained my love of the club dry and I still need some convincing that better days are ahead.

I'll be honest, I don't mind the same teams winning it as much, I've got a strange desire for us to be the "other team" that win it. As it stands, it's same old. I'd be slightly gutted if Cas or Salford actually did it before us.

Totally agree with this, I'd be gutted if Salford or Huddersfield etc won it before us!

Regarding today, deserving winners again just like they have been for the last 3 seasons. Totally dominant at the moment and very much the best team. I said at the start of the season it's their to lose and I would say next year is too.

Was thinking that last week during the saints Salford game, obvs I wanted Salford to get through but it would have boiled my if they had then beat Leeds.

Fev vs Batley in the Championship semi is a bit more like it - lots of endevaour, plenty of skill and one or two gems waiting to be unearthed.