Re: Wire streak important? : Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:53 am  

Moe syslak wrote:

Teams that have played their entire history in the top flight - Warrington,....er there isn't anybody else (including saints!)

Just for sayings sake ..... when were we not in the "top flight" ?

Re: Wire streak important? : Sun Feb 27, 2011 1:25 am  

the fact the matter is that for so long we (Wire) have never been able to beat Saints........there have been so many "nearly" matches and (as we all have been) to be on the end of last gasp wins by drop-goals, bombs and so forth is absolutely gutting.....so arguably to win the other night has to be an achievement and permit some goading (politely and in good jest of course)

at the end of the day, as Brian McDermott himself once said it (really) is only two points; fans pay good money to have high emotions, players get paid only for the two points each game

KEEP THE FAITH .......... c'mon The Wire

Re: Wire streak important? : Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:06 am  

Poyser11 wrote:

There is a debate in one of the topics on the wire board about whether the unbeaten streak against wire is more important to us or them.. It will be interesting to hear the Saints fans take on it!

It's personally very important to me, but that may be because I live in Warrington! I honestly can't stand their arrogance, and it makes beating them all the sweeter.

'It's our year' should be their official club slogan IMO..

thats a laugh..you cant stand our arrogance..you lot invented the word arrogant..hope you dont get to much of the preverbial taken out of you when you do show your face in warrington

Re: Wire streak important? : Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:16 am  

diehardofowld wrote:

Just for sayings sake ..... when were we not in the "top flight" ?

We were demoted once, somewhere around 1914 or something. It was decades ago anyway. And just the once. But Warrington are the only team not to have been demoted at all. It is their one claim to fame!

Re: Wire streak important? : Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:49 am  

Thanks for looking it up for me, i couldn't be bothered . It's quite an impressive claim to fame though

Re: Wire streak important? : Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:02 pm  

SaintsFan wrote:

We were demoted once, somewhere around 1914 or something. It was decades ago anyway. And just the once. But Warrington are the only team not to have been demoted at all. It is their one claim to fame! :wink:

Well that and the fact we own our own ground as well!!!Have they laid a brick at your gaff yet..

Re: Wire streak important? : Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:28 pm  

the ditch wrote:

Well that and the fact we own our own ground as well!!!

Do you? Is the HJ not a council facility then? I am asking as I don't know. I get confused as to which club owns their stadium and which rents.

Have they laid a brick at your gaff yet..

Not yet but only because they have been preparing the foundations. I believe something about 'pouring' should be happening next - concrete doofas or something. I'm no construction worker so I haven't got a clue! BARR has stated that the steel frame should be started within the next couple of weeks. It will be exciting for us Saints fans to finally see our stadium start to grow!

Re: Wire streak important? : Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:46 pm  

sir adrian morley wrote:

thats a laugh..you cant stand our arrogance..you lot invented the word arrogant..hope you dont get to much of the preverbial taken out of you when you do show your face in warrington

Haha, I did my time on the train back from Widnes, when I was the only guy I could see (except from a couple of St. George-Illawara fans) with a Saints top on. Not particularly pleasant xD It didn't really bother me though, all in good spirits and I knew it would be coming soon. Now it's just waiting for you to win the league really, I suspect the gloating might not go away so easily then!

Re: Wire streak important? : Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:25 pm  

the ditch wrote:

Well that and the fact we own our own ground as well!!!Have they laid a brick at your gaff yet..

At least we will own a proper ground not a lego set!

Re: Wire streak important? : Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:28 pm  

McClennan wrote:

Thanks to Keith Swiftcorn for the stats on that winning streak.

SAINTS v WARRINGTON
Last 44 meetings – Saints 41, Draw 2, Warrington 1, since Sep 1995
Last 23 meetings at Knowsley Road – Saints 23, Draw 0, Warrington 0, since Jan 1994
Average Score in Last 23 meetings at KR – Saints 44 Warrington 16
All Meetings at Halliwell Jones Stadium – Saints 11, Draw 0, Warrington 0
Amount of Games Unbeaten – 29 Games, since Apr 2001
Winning Streak – 22 games, since Jun 2003
Last 30 seasons – Saints finished highest in League 29 times, Warrington finished highest 1 time
Consecutive seasons finished highest in the League – 17, since 1993-94
Trophies Won in Last 20 seasons – Saints 20, Warrington 2

Cheeky fooker. It took me ages to compile that and you start giving the credit to an RL Fans Johnny Nobody!