Sat 18th Feb: World Club Challenge: Penrith Panthers v St Helens KO 7:00 (UK Time) (Sky/C4)

[Irish Saint]

Because of family illness I only caught golden point. A great emotional pick up. Thanks to all the non Saints fans on here for their congratulations.

[Bearman]

Where did that 80 minute go?

What a great game

[The Mighty Trin]

Congratulations to St Helens, superb performance. Still Trinity are the last team to beat the World Champs  

[Mark S]

Welsby just whispered to McManus, ‘Get your cheque book out, Jacky needs a new house’.

[OMEGA]

Congratulations St Helens World Club Champions and now officially the best club team in the World

Beaten the NRLs dominant team in their own back yard and did so with a home grown Sts Academy produced spine Welsby, Lomax, Dodd, Roby, Knowles. Throw in Makinson, Percival, Lees, who are also Acdemy products and Head Coach Paul Wellens, who also came from Sts Academy

[StandOffHalf]

Dodd's kicking game and generalship was super. I loved the placement and class in his kicking.

Welsby MOTM for me. Loved how he walked up, hugged McManus, accepted his medal, and then walked off without saying anything.

Come on Saints!! Club champs of the world!

[rlno1]

6 minutes ago, EastLondonMike said:

Must be painful for the Aussies, Fox League have immediately cut to show the Broncos v Cowboys game.

Great win by Saints.....now wait and listen to the whinging and excuses from the Aussies who think their third string teams can beat the English teams. I

Too good Saints, well done!!!!

[shrewsbury roughyed]

Good speech from Isiah Yeo. 

[Nothus]

Just now, OMEGA said:

Congratulations St Helens World Club Champions and now officially the best club team in the World

Beaten the NRLs dominant team in their own back yard and did so with a home grown Sts Academy produced spine Welsby, Lomax, Dodd, Roby, Knowles. Throw in Makinson, Percival, Lees, who are also Acdemy products and Head Coach Paul Wellens, who also came from Sts Academy

I hope everyone congratulating Saints right now is ready for a whole season of this lol

[shrewsbury roughyed]

Roby is genuinely a legend of rugby league. 

[tjhrads93]

3 minutes ago, Irish Saint said:

Because of family illness I only caught golden point. A great emotional pick up. Thanks to all the non Saints fans on here for their congratulations.

I hope everything’s okay Irish Saint

[SalfordSlim]

Well done Saints, fantastic performance. I slept through most of it unfortunately as I had a late night but defensively they were outstanding.

The only downside to all this is that their already insufferable fans will now be a couple of notches higher on the "up our own arris's" scale.

[glossop saint]

2 minutes ago, Irish Saint said:

Because of family illness I only caught golden point. A great emotional pick up. Thanks to all the non Saints fans on here for their congratulations.

Hope all is OK.

And echo those thanks to the none Saints fans. Its been fantastic reading a thread where 99% of people are wanting the same thing. For some reason there's some prolific NRL posters missing.

[Gerrumonside ref]

We’ll have to do this again

[JonM]

1 minute ago, tjhrads93 said:

Now that they’ve won it, where does that rank in terms of all time great super league performances?

I’ve only been a fan for 10-15 years and it’s the best I’ve ever seen - maybe best setting up another thread though.

The last British club to win in Australia was Wigan in 1994 i.e pre superleague. That was at a time where there was no salary cap and Wigan were able to sign most of the top players and had dominated English RL for best part of a decade. 

No question that is the best result by a superleague club.

[JohnM]

(It would have been )....Good to see so many Penrith fans staying behind for the trophy presentation. 

[meast]

Congratulations to St Helens, tremendous performance to win that.

It's another smack in the face for all those who believe NRL, its teams, players and everything else is so much better.

 

[Ragingbull]

Sky obviously dont give a toss.  No pre match, no post match and dont even show the trophy presentation. 

Sooner another tv company comes in for the main broadcast deal the better.  

Well done channel 4 for actually showing an intrest in the game 

[Pulga]

Apparently that's now 14 wins a piece between NRL and SL clubs.

Cool stat.

[WN83]

Very well deserved. Good to see Crichton on the deck at the end and he had an absolute stinker to boot. 
 

I wonder if the Penrith lads are all doing the air injections in the changing rooms? 

[Gerrumonside ref]

4 minutes ago, Irish Saint said:

Because of family illness I only caught golden point. A great emotional pick up. Thanks to all the non Saints fans on here for their congratulations.

Thinking of you and your loved ones.

Glad this has provided some respite.

 

[JohnM]

Just now, JonM said:

The last British club to win in Australia was Wigan in 1994 i.e pre superleague. That was at a time where there was no salary cap and Wigan were able to sign most of the top players and had dominated English RL for best part of a decade. 

No question that is the best result by a superleague club.

Did you watch the Wigan game?

[glossop saint]

1 minute ago, Gerrumonside ref said:

We’ll have to do this again

Meh. Only if it fits in with our schedule. We're the best, the Australians can fit in with us. 

[Hate the rec]

5 minutes ago, Irish Saint said:

Because of family illness I only caught golden point. A great emotional pick up. Thanks to all the non Saints fans on here for their congratulations.

Wigan fan here , but that was bloody brilliant, well done saints, fantastic result.

[WN83]

1 minute ago, shrewsbury roughyed said:

Roby is genuinely a legend of rugby league. 

Nothing but admiration for him. As a Wigan fan you have a natural instinct to dislike Saints players but you just can’t. I can’t help but think what could’ve been regards the World Cup but good to see him get a sign off like that on an elavated stage. 
 

He’ll be spoke about for decades to come.