My view is that it is one of three trophies and winning it should be celebrated.
The attitude towards the trophy is down to conditioning. Sky will tell you that only the GF matters and that even the Challenge Cup (well done Warrington you’ve got the oldest and nicest trophy) is second rate. If fans, whether our own or from other clubs, choose to denigrate the LLS and mock anybody daring to celebrate it they are wrong and why should you take any notice of them? The GF trophy will only be around for as long as Sky have the TV rights. If someone else gets the rights there will be another trophy and another format.
I remember quite a big LLS presentation at Wigan some years ago and Wane and their fans were obviously pleased to have won it and I don’t remember any mocking then. Anyway, you shouldn’t be bothered what the trolls on here think. Just remember it’s an achievement and deserving of recognition.
If the Aussies choose to call it the minor premiership and play it down, who cares? The NFL also have TV rights to consider. They promote what they are told to promote. Why be a sheep (Old Cunningham reference)?
The shield was important enough when they had a helicopter taxi ready to deliver it. As I said it becomes important when your own team wins it.
Yes embarrassed. We were massive favourites and just didn't turn up once again in a major match. We haven't done in 5 years and over the last 10 have consistently let ourselves down in the big games.
It's depressing and if anything it's worse than not being good at all. The false hope is crippling, whereas if you don't expect to win anything, you can just enjoy the good days for what they are. We've romped through this season with hardly anyone challenging us at all, then falling spectacularly short in the one game we've had that actually meant anything.
Hopefully next season we'll have a coach with a winning mentality who will know how to approach the big games and will make us competitive in the trophy hunt, not the 'sprint really fast when everyone else is jogging' trophy.
I won't be celebrating the LLS and I'm pretty sure the players will be dying internally if they have to receive it on the pitch with a proper presentation. It shouldn't be an embarassment, but it is, there is no getting away from that. The players and the club will be mocked by the rest of the sport's fans. Again, it's not right but it is unfortunately that way.
Pretty much this. The LLS shield presentation should be before the game to Roby on his own (or maybe with Holbrook/Mcmanus) pitchside before anyone enters the stadium then paraded if need be at the Huddersfield game maybe. A full presentation after the game would be embarrasing considering what happened on Saturday.
Some fans may be thrilled that we have finished top, if it was up to me there wouldn't be a playoff series and FPTP would be Champions but that isn't the case.
Its a Grand Final win or nothing from here.
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I don't need other clubs fans to tell me that a full presentation of the least important piece of Silverware on Friday when we should have had an open top bus celebration for a CCF win on Sunday just gone would be embarrasing. Its about the GF from here, not the LLS.
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The club can’t win with this one. Celebrate and they will be laughed at, accept but be emotionless and then will be criticised - like last year. Through no fault of their own. The difference with last season is that on Friday it will be live on Sky so they should set the tone/mood.
When Sky tried to jazz up the LLS presentation (helicopter thing) they were criticized so much. I’m not saying it was brilliant but they tried, and were derided, it was a talking point and about as non-whippet and flat cap as possible. Someone on here likened it to “WWE” and that’s not fair either.
I hope they try to make something of it on Sky on Friday but it’s lose-lose for them and us as other people have said.
Keep it how it is and watch it die, or try to do something different and listen to the people say they preferred it the old way...... typical Rugby League mentality.
Without Sky and Superleague there’d be no new stadiums and we’d be watching a semi-pro game of merges teams.
Cup half full or half empty?
Can't stop the spirits when they need you.
This life is more than just a read through.
£100,000 for finishing first is a nice bonus.
It won’t be a wild celebration but nor should it be an embarrassing situation. What any other fans think is completely unimportant
As a Saints fan I am proud we have again finished top of the super league for the second consecutive season. Surely the RFL should raise the profile for this award which should be the main prize for the most consistent team of the year. The play offs are an extension to the super league season the main prize has to be the winners over the 29 rounds.
But it isn't
It isn't created to be fair but to ensure we have more teams fighting for positions, therefore more interest and a big grand final
So whilst most people agree the most co sistent team should be winners it isn't how our competition is run
I don't believe it is for the RFL to make more of it I think it's the teams who win its job to make more of it
I feel in modern life people always look to blame others, it's the RFL fault we won't celebrate etc. Make a lot of it as we deserve to and don't worry about the rfl or any other team, it's ours we deserve it we celebrate it, that's how the profile is raised, not through handing out more cash
Quite why anyone would be embarrassed by their team collecting a trophy for being top of the league is anyone’s guess.
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It should have been presented ASAP after winning. Waiting for the home game was presumption. If we won last game away at the end of the season, there would be no home game to present it at.
Should have been done before the CC at Leeds, celebrating success when it happens. Leeds even gave us a guard of honour ffs, that was the right time.
I will be at the game on Friday and recording the Sky broadcast , I will then be able to notice how many times the Sky people say things like getting back to the important stuff after the Challenge Cup because they spend plenty of time denigrating it .
I agree it's unfortunate timing.
I like the suggestion that it should be just presented to Riby at the beginning of the game but I assume because of Sky they're going to want a formal presentation at the end.
It's going to look a bit daft if we lose :-(
Nothing much we can do about it, we cant win either way