Re: Grand Final : Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:46 pm  

who cares who wins the LLS? it's the big one that counts.

Re: Grand Final : Sun Oct 10, 2021 8:50 pm  

Rommel wrote:

You never dominated the comp and win the CC in those years? Only in 2009 did you finish top. Saints came top in 2007 & 2008 and won the CC three times in a row?

It’s fair to say even the great Leeds sides tended to have inconsistent league form. Some of the battles with good Saints and Wigan sides back then were titanic. It’s hard to argue the standard of the comp is higher now than it was in those days.

It’s also fair to say Saints have been way more consistent than Leeds overall throughout the SL era. We fell out of the tree completely.

I just don’t believe the feat of winning the last three titles is particularly comparable in terms of opposition to what Leeds had in their day.

Having said that we’re all working under the same salary cap so there are no excuses either, it is up to the rest to catch up to the current benchmark.

Re: 2021 | Grand Final : Mon Oct 11, 2021 11:59 am  

It's simple, if people genuinely believe that the Salford, Wigan and Catalans teams were better than the Saints ones in 07-09 then this Saints Threepeat is more of an achievement than the Leeds one. On the other hand.......

Re: 2021 | Grand Final : Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:04 am  

so while every man and hs dog knew Mata’utia should have been sent off on saturday, the officials bottled it. now been banned for striking....

Re: 2021 | Grand Final : Tue Oct 12, 2021 9:53 am  

tad rhino wrote:

so while every man and hs dog knew Mata’utia should have been sent off on saturday, the officials bottled it. now been banned for striking....

I don’t have a problem with it personally, except that it’s inconsistent.

It’s a GF, Maloney is no angel and it was just handbags really.

Play on. 10 mins in-game at most for me. Subsequent ban, fair enough.

We want big games played with all the stars on the field unless something very serious happens IMO.

Re: 2021 | Grand Final : Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:02 pm  

but the inconsisty you dont like is that offences are treated differently in big games? cant have it both ways.
people want consistency from officials but only when it suits?

[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: 2021 | Grand Final : Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:11 pm  

Which, when the big events come around, most likely with the bigger teams in them there's always that "but they didn't pull that last week against us!" line everyone loathes to hear.
This is where it comes from. Inconsistency and baffling decisions or non decisions in this case.

Re: 2021 | Grand Final : Tue Oct 12, 2021 4:43 pm  

So if there’s inconsistency between the weekly rounds and the big games, and people like the way the big games are officiated, why not officiate every game like that? Without the foot in touch stuff of course…

Re: 2021 | Grand Final : Tue Oct 12, 2021 4:58 pm  

people always say, in any sport, we just want consistency from officials.
it's not always possible but when you have a video referee who saw it and ignored it you have to ask why?

Re: 2021 | Grand Final : Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:14 pm  

batleyrhino wrote:

So if there’s inconsistency between the weekly rounds and the big games, and people like the way the big games are officiated, why not officiate every game like that? Without the foot in touch stuff of course…

I honestly think it’s the fear of future litigation for brain injury victims.