Four in a row is a great achievement BTW, but I would say the current three-peat isn't as good as the Leeds one was. They had to beat Saints three years in a row (as well as a good Wigan and a good Wire), and there simply isn't a team as good as that Saints one in the league at the moment.

I've just got home after a few days touring the Yorkshire Wolds with my daughter and son in law. With nothing much to do sat in the back of the car for mile after mile my mind went back to the previous say's news of Saints defeat in France. As I am known to do from time to time I was inspired to go into composing mode. What follows is the result.

TO LOSE TO TOULOUSE

On Billinge Hill the beacon’s lit
They’re sending out the news
That Saints have had a massive hit
It’s to lose to Toulouse

In Scholes they’re dancing in the street
They’re rolling out the booze
And all you hear when people meet
Is to lose to Toulouse..

The Wires have cast aside their woes
And laughed away the blues
Our losing streak just grows and grows
But, to lose to Toulouse.

Paul Sculthorpe’s face has gone quite red
His hair to greyish hues
We’ll never lose again he said
Then to lose to Toulouse.

Poor Alex Murphy’s lost for words
Ray French has blown a fuse
In the Church Square the feral birds
Tweet to lose to Toulouse

When all is said and all is done
Which ever you may choose
You must admit it’s been great fun
Has to lose to Toulouse

And so my friends this ode I send
And with it too-del-oos
As words I blend, this verse I’ll end
With to lose to Toulouse.

A well balanced debate in which i can understand and agree to a degree both sides of the argument.

Not sure I’d say the best team in SL history but defensively wise I’ve not seen a better British team in over 50 years of watching the game. The line speed is phenomenal with even some of Wigan’s great defensive efforts for me, not even close to matching the current Saints team. I agree with the argument that current overall standards are lower than previous years but with such a great defence the current Saints team would give any team from any era a real game.

What they don’t have are real top class players such as a Sculthorpe, Farrell, Manninga, Murphy, Hanley or an Offiah but what they have got is a willingness to play at a very high intensity, at pace with great regularity.

If they do win 4 in a row, which I think is inevitable unless they have a series of major injuries, maybe in a few years time people may well look back and reflect upon a great and once in a lifetime team.
For me they are a bit away from that at the moment. Currently they are on a crest of a wave and their recent recruitment is light years ahead of every other team and if that continues when say Roby retires I can see their dominance continuing unless there is a general stepped improvement across the competition.

For me what does detract the overall quality of their success is that they don’t have a an ongoing formidable foe in the vein of say Saints/Wigan, Leeds/Bradford, saints/Leeds or a Wigan/Wire battles for top team dominance that were ongoing throughout the last 2 decades. Catalans had a decent 2021 but I for one just couldn’t see see them winning the gf that year nor can I see them changing that in 2022.

For all that nobody laughed longer or louder than me on Saturday night.

Wigan fans in this thread lol

Wire fan.....

It is very difficult to compare teams in different eras but it is not difficult to compare the number of trophies each club has won and in this regard Wigan are way out in front.

Yay your back, been noticeable by your absence since the weekend. Did something happen ?

Ah well! You managed a full 2 posts that weren't trolling. I guess that qualifies as a good run for you hey Steph?

Winning 4 in a row will wipe the slate clean a bit as you lost five in a row.

Wigan fans of the most successful Rugby League club in history.
Stains fans fans of the 3rd most successful club in history LOL

Juke, your spelling needs attention! I am sure you meant tool.

Just had a flick through of a topic about Wigan on Red Vee and the line now seems to be that we think they’re rubbish and that Good Friday will be easy for us!

Talk about missing the point!! They don’t seem to understand that by stating how they’re comfortably the best of a bad bunch, it’s ourselves we’re criticising, along with the other 10 superleague clubs. It’ll take one hell of a shock not to get beaten on Good Friday but you never know.

I’m not sure I’ve seen a club or fan base as desperate for adulation before. Maybe it stems from the old entertainers tag they were given but it’s now just methodical and a bit robotic (but clearly very effective). I suppose it’s driving them on via this ‘us against the game’ attitude they’re developing, so fair play.