Re: Do you want Saints to get to the Grand Final? : Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:13 am  

Saddened! wrote:

You all talk the big talk, but our ticket sales for Grand Finals have dropped every year since the first defeat.

Not from me it hasn't

Re: Do you want Saints to get to the Grand Final? : Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:27 am  

Saddened! wrote:

You all talk the big talk, but our ticket sales for Grand Finals have dropped every year since the first defeat.

To be fair I reckon our sales would have decreased each year even if we'd won them all - getting to the final every year will naturally make the event less exciting each time you do it whatever the result. A few years away from the final would do a lot to reinvigorate the fans and bring the hunger back.

Re: Do you want Saints to get to the Grand Final? : Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:42 am  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

To be fair I reckon our sales would have decreased each year even if we'd won them all - getting to the final every year will naturally make the event less exciting each time you do it whatever the result. A few years away from the final would do a lot to reinvigorate the fans and bring the hunger back.

So would winning one now, after the last 5 years.

Re: Do you want Saints to get to the Grand Final? : Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:12 am  

Saddened! wrote:

I posted a thread on here last year bemoaning the fact that we were about to reach another Grand Final. Whilst I generally love the occasion, seeing Saints put in an abstract performance and lose to a team with more heart and desire is getting a bit samey. I know walking away from OT last year there were several Saints fans giving it the 'never again' promises. If it happens again and we lose in the Grand Final, I'll bet it would push a few thousand over the edge.

I'll admit, unless it's a final against Catalans or Hull I don't want us to get there.

I know how you feel, but it’s like the morning after the night before, you always say never again but when it’s time for another dose, you just can’t say no! Some of us are glutens for punishment; just plain sadists.

Re: Do you want Saints to get to the Grand Final? : Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:28 am  

Saddened! wrote:

You all talk the big talk, but our ticket sales for Grand Finals have dropped every year since the first defeat.

You’re right, sometimes likeTonto said to Kemosabe, “white man speak with forked tongue” well on these boards they do.

Re: Do you want Saints to get to the Grand Final? : Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:47 am  

who says the final will be between saints or the pies or the semi saints v wire. i reckon leeds will do catalans and wire might just scrape a win over hull.
will the pies pick leeds who did them in the CC and lets face it are still the champions or will they pick the wire.
hard decisions to be made, and for me i can see a saints v wires final. do i want saints to get to the GF though and possibly lose again. OF COURSE i do. every year all the other teams not at OT would swap places with the 2 teams to be there. one day we will win it again.why not this year!!!
and if not this year then maybe next, but win it again we will.

Re: Do you want Saints to get to the Grand Final? : Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:51 am  

CORNISH wrote:

who says the final will be between saints or the pies or the semi saints v wire. i reckon leeds will do catalans and wire might just scrape a win over hull.
will the pies pick leeds who did them in the CC and lets face it are still the champions or will they pick the wire.
hard decisions to be made, and for me i can see a saints v wires final. do i want saints to get to the GF though and possibly lose again. OF COURSE i do. every year all the other teams not at OT would swap places with the 2 teams to be there. one day we will win it again.why not this year!!!
and if not this year then maybe next, but win it again we will.

The words of a true Saints Fan Of course we will be there again.

Re: Do you want Saints to get to the Grand Final? : Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:52 am  

pies-r-us wrote:

I know how you feel, but it’s like the morning after the night before, you always say never again but when it’s time for another dose, you just can’t say no! Some of us are glutens for punishment; just plain sadists.

If we get there and I could go then I still would. Even though spending 150 quid and a precious day off work on a 5 hour roundtrip in the pouring rain to sit in that cripplingly uncomfortable monument to pure evil to watch our tedious and one-dimensional team haplessly lose yet another final (and to Wigan too) and then get to sit in a traffic jam for 90 minutes afterwards soaked to the skin is the absolute very last thing in the entire fabric of reality that I would ever want to do. I'd still be going though as, as a Saints fan, I'd have no choice. Luckily this year I am spared from further punishment

Re: Do you want Saints to get to the Grand Final? : Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:53 am  

Northampton_Saint wrote:

If we get there and I could go then I still would. Even though spending 150 quid and a precious day off work on a 5 hour roundtrip in the pouring rain to sit in that cripplingly uncomfortable monument of evil to watch our tedious and one-dimensional team haplessly lose yet another final (and to Wigan too) and then get to sit in a traffic jam for 90 minutes afterwards soaked to the skin is the absolute very last thing in the entire fabric of reality that I would ever want to do. I'd still be going though as, as a Saints fan, I'd have no choice. Luckily this year I am spared from further punishment

Public transport + beer = all your problems solved!

Re: Do you want Saints to get to the Grand Final? : Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:56 am  

CORNISH wrote:

who says the final will be between saints or the pies or the semi saints v wire. i reckon leeds will do catalans and wire might just scrape a win over hull.
will the pies pick leeds who did them in the CC and lets face it are still the champions or will they pick the wire.
hard decisions to be made, and for me i can see a saints v wires final. do i want saints to get to the GF though and possibly lose again. OF COURSE i do. every year all the other teams not at OT would swap places with the 2 teams to be there. one day we will win it again.why not this year!!!
and if not this year then maybe next, but win it again we will.

Actually, if Leeds do beat Cats (I have the feeling in my water that they won't this year though) then I think Wigan are a little knackered as I'd take either Leeds or Wire to do them at the Piedome. I think they'll still pick Leeds or Cats over Wire every day of the week however.