We had a side that were capable of results like these?


May 26. Sup Lge 8 ST HELENS HOME WON 30 - 6
Aug 24. Sup Lge 8 ST HELENS HOME WON 42 - 18
Jul 17. Sup Lge 9 ST HELENS HOME WON 34 - 6
May 13. Sup Lge 10 ST HELENS HOME WON 44 - 6

How the hell did we manage that?

We had Jason smith?;D

The panther and besty

The Panther, Jason Smith,Steve Prescott says it all really

Oh for them now

But we've got Craig Hall, Lee Radford and Graeme Horne now! Far superior in every way.

Yes but in SL10 (2005) we could only draw 20-20 at Leigh and lost 6 out of 14 at home.

When we did not have:
Jason smith, Steve Prescott

And won the challenge cup

only in the middle 2 of them games

His presence around the training ground??;D Ok ok im clutching at straws.
Fantastic player though.

Or colin best and the panther

Perhaps the benefit of an overseas experience coach?
His links with Aussie players

Hard as it is to say, the biggest difference between then and now is Paul Cooke.

Don't forget BigHead's favourite ever player** out jumping the Saints attack and running in for a 70 yarder.












**Nathan Blacklock

Bingo! The missing link. Not necessarily cookie himself, but a player of his ilk

Thats been the problem, he was our go to player our matchwinner and has never been replaced

Strictly speaking, he has been replaced. Twice. With better players.

Trouble was, neither Head nor Dykes played enough matches due to injury.

Better players yes as you say but injury prone to say the least

Moot point maybe, but in those 3 years Sintellins didn't win a title.

Maybe you frightened them into submission!

cooke wasn't the difference in those games, pace in the backline and a desire to move the ball quickly and effectively were. The loss of cooke has affected us but TBH we weren't playing that well with him and horne in the halfs. cooke has plenty of ability but his main threat was the miss out pass on the left hand side. There was a lot of criticism of us at the time tht we were a one dimensional side and that was our main (only) attacking threat. What we really need is an organising scrum half with a top quality kicking game.

Spot on.

A one dimensional team that got to the GF.

I remember people moaning about only having a left hand side attack. They seem like heady days now where there left seems to have gone the same way as the right.

And lost

So a one dimensional team was the 2nd best in the comp.