Quote: Mild Rover "Aside from the stuff they’ve won in the last decade though, the choker narrative isn’t typically applied when they go close - because of all their previous success. Like when Leeds made the GF a couple of years ago and lost, that wasn’t widely seen as bottle. Maybe it was applied to Saints when they lost 4 GFs in a row, although they may have won a CC during that period (cba to check).
The bottle thing is just to try hide how ingrained the advantage of the dominant teams is and portray their achievements as representing something more meaningful than competent use of greater resource… oh yeah, and to intensify the disappointment of our rivals - there’s so little to celebrate in SL that solace in others’ misery is entirely justified, imo.'"
super league needs a new winner, whether it be us salford or wire, the game has gone into an SPL, premier league esc with total domination/lockout from saints/wigan and getting very tedious to watch at the backend of the season
i think alot of people pay lip service to the GF as we always know the outcome