Re: When will we get a new name on the SL trophy? : Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:05 am  

Saddened! wrote:

It's getting more and more like the NRL now. You really can't call who is going to win it next season. For the first time in Super League history we have a relatively open competition. Leeds, Wigan, Wire and Saints could all win it. It's been a while since four teams could genuinely say that.

If Todd Carney keeps himself out of mischief I would throw Catalans in there too.

Re: When will we get a new name on the SL trophy? : Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:33 am  

Wire would be my shout for the next name on the trophy. As realistically it would take about five years of building, Cas for example of last season need o be firstly getting to the upper echelons of the league table , then getting to the semi finals, then getting to the GF (first one probably losing if not more) than finally winning. Whether the new format allows this sort of building we will have to ait and see.

Re: When will we get a new name on the SL trophy? : Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:09 am  

Bruce_Forsyth wrote:

The over-confident loudmouth Wire fans instance that every season was the 'year of the wolf' is what gave birth to that "it's always your year" chant that everyone in Super League sings at Warrington fans thesedays.

Funny, I've been supporting Wire for forty years and I've never met one of the these 'over confident loud-mouth fans'. Can we be reasonably confident of winning most games we play these days? Hardly outrageous to believe so. I can count on the fingers of one hand just how many times a Wire fan has posted about the 'year of the wolf'. In fact, it is opposition fans who keep coming up with it, not Wire. A bit like the 'barking' that still comes along with Joel Monaghan tries. Anyway, like Dita, much as I'd love a GF win, it would be churlish in the extreme as a Wire fan not to be content with things as they are now.

Re: When will we get a new name on the SL trophy? : Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:44 am  

Biff Tannen wrote:

You will be in the mix for sure. You can't read into anything regards the title win this year though and the incredible fortune you had to win it.im happy for you suffering fans by the way, but it was the stars aligning and nothing else really,any other year you wouldn't have even got to OT with that team as it was.

'Stars aligning'

Re: When will we get a new name on the SL trophy? : Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:48 pm  

Wire fans busy attempting to put a dampener on our Grand Final win.

What the hell do they know about winning Super League titles anyway???

[Uncle Rico]

Re: When will we get a new name on the SL trophy? : Sun Oct 19, 2014 7:54 pm  

Bruce_Forsyth wrote:

What's all this '2009' and 'the last 6 seasons' that keeps cropping up in posts from Warrington fans?

Why do Dire Wolf supporters think RL only began then?

May I suggest you change your Location from "Knowing it all" to something more appropriate

[Uncle Rico]

Re: When will we get a new name on the SL trophy? : Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:05 pm  

RuddyScoosers wrote:

Wire fans busy attempting to put a dampener on our Grand Final win.

What the hell do they know about winning Super League titles anyway???

Bravo, jolly well done...better now?

BTW the thread is called "when will we get a new name on the SL trophy" and there's not much mischief from Wire fans as far as I can make out.

I would have thought that Warrington are best placed to be the next new name, but, I thought that our best chance was over the last two/three years. We should have a chance all things being equal, but, the longer the wait the more the odds will favour other contenders.

Re: When will we get a new name on the SL trophy? : Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:57 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

It's getting more and more like the NRL now. You really can't call who is going to win it next season. For the first time in Super League history we have a relatively open competition. Leeds, Wigan, Wire and Saints could all win it. It's been a while since four teams could genuinely say that.

seriously???? Anyone in the NRL can win their comp just look at the list of different winners, 4 teams out of 12 in SL is rubbish and is what's holding the game back imo.

Re: When will we get a new name on the SL trophy? : Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:22 pm  

Mike87 wrote:

seriously???? Anyone in the NRL can win their comp just look at the list of different winners, 4 teams out of 12 in SL is rubbish and is what's holding the game back imo.

If I were a betting man I'd wager a whole pound that Gold Coast, Penrith, Cronulla, Canberra, Parramatta, North Queensland, Newcastle & New Zealand won't win the NRL in the next 5 years. Maybe even 10.

The NRL is better but it's certainly not at the level where anyone can win it. The difference with the NRL is that most teams seem able to have a bad year or 2 and then turn it around and be a contender. In SL teams struggle to poke their nose into the position of being a contender.
Though, until Crowe's takeover, Souths didn't stand a chance.

Possibly due to smaller squads but in the end, in my opinion, it's the fact most of the "lower" SL clubs are run on shoestring budgets.

Also, the Premier League has had only 4 different winners in the same time frame, out of 20 clubs. Union isn't great either with only 7 different winners.

To be honest I think there's far more chance these days for a "5th" winner than there ever has been in SL. Don't forget it took 8 years for Leeds to become the 4th. I think it's just a matter of time, only a few years, before Warrington and Huddersfield win.

Re: When will we get a new name on the SL trophy? : Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:52 am  

Him wrote:

If I were a betting man I'd wager a whole pound that Gold Coast, Penrith, Cronulla, Canberra, Parramatta, North Queensland, Newcastle & New Zealand won't win the NRL in the next 5 years. Maybe even 10.

Hmmm....I'd fancy at least one of those teams to feature in a GF in the next 5 years.....NZ Warriors 2015 will be the surprise package IMHO. 11 winners since 1998 BTW.....69% of the teams have won it.

Him wrote:

Union isn't great either with only 7 different winners.

Bad comparison.....
.....from a division of 12 clubs, close to 60% of them winning the trophy over the last 18 years ain't too shabby.

60% from the 14 SL sides would have delivered more than 8 winners. Also, Newcastle to London (280 miles) kind of blows the M4 corridor/Midlands Heartland rubbish out of the water.....St Helens, Wigan, Leeds and Bradford (60 miles) are all pretty much on each others doorsteps by comparison.

Warrington are next up. They have London/Harlequins RL to thank for it too......we spanked them rotten at the Stoop in March 2009 and it was after that game that they turned the corner.......all thanks to London