Today, I received a phone call off a St Helens supporter gleefully bragging about 'the new chant'. Apparently it goes something like 'it's always your year' or something. Could someone explain to me please.

I quizzed the person on the phone and they assured me it wasn't about winning trophies (Something Saints haven't done in 3 years- while Warrington are 3 in 3 in that respect) or winning Grand Finals (something Saints haven't done in almost 6 years)

So I was wondering, what is it?

It may be '[our] year' to beat Saints but we did that last year. Or it could be 'our year' to reach a Grand final; but why would Saints applaud 5 years of failure. I'm so confused.

This is a serious question!

how many grand finals have u been in. i would love to know.

So it is about No. of Grand Finals appeared in.

WOW, that is a sad desperation I have never before seen from Saints.

I am now sad!

Sad act will be along shortly JD with his wonderfull Knowledge..

Its also a dig at the pundits,Eddy and Stevo most of all who tip Warrington to win the grand final and talk them up all year and constantly wax lyrical over the team.How many times last year did he say " is this the year they get to Old Trafford ? "

Oh. Okay, that's fair.

They are fools and I don't appreciate them tipping us.

To be fair to them given the squad and the coach you have then your allways going to have the favourites tag,but you know how the pair of them are and it just sets things up to have the mickey taken.

It'd be a valid song if it was sung by the Leeds fans. Other than that it doesn't work.

Agreed. It'd be scathing coming from them.

I think some Saints fans may think it is still 2007 (or 2008 at a push)

To be honest, that chant is just as embarrassing as some of our fans debating a massive 'decline' because they'd been beat in Grand Finals. I know there's no prize for second, but Saints are still a fantastic side and a fantastic club.

I imagine they're singing the song because, over the past ten years or so, we've always improved our side over the winter, then got our hopes up for the season, then haven't won the Grand Final. Sadly, the GF seems to be deemed the biggest achievement when it clearly isn't; there is no bigger challenge than winning something over the course of twenty seven games in rugby league.

when did u say you were in the grand final, or have i missed something.

Very amusing, indeed. I welcome all opinions, as long as there is a crumb of a fact to support it. If you don't think saints have declined since 2006, you need your head felt, IMO (if it was a not-so-subtle dig at me, I would like to inform you that my reasoning was that Saints haven't won anything since 2008- compounded by there steady decline in trophies since 2006. And was not a reference to their GF failings- there could be an excuse made for CC fatigue or a hard fought LLS but Saints don't have that and didn't need it in 2006)

But, more to the point, if they are crowing about merely reaching a grand final, what does that say for the aims of St Helens rugby? Are they happy to go every year without winning atrophy as long as their fans get a day out at Old Trafford but cry on the way home? Thnat is very strange.

The thing I couldn't understand about that song was that they started singing it when they went 18-0 up and it was apparent we were going to lose. This would imply they felt that by losing to them this signalled the end of our season. ‘It’s always your year, It’s always your year, just like the last one, It’s always your year’ the words would imply that they think this is not going to be our year because we were going to get beaten by them. It can’t refer to our poor record against them as, ‘just like the last one’ wouldn’t make any sense as we beat them twice last year.

I actually think it would be a good song to sing if we were to get beaten by them in a playoff game. But I don’t understand them singing it during a league match in March. Last night’s game will have no bearing on whether this year will be our year or not, and for that reason it makes no sense at all. It actually makes them sound a bit stupid.