Super League has rather impatiently been waiting for a new first-time champion for far too long. You have to go back more than two decades – to Leeds Rhinos in 2004 – to find the last time a new team won the Grand Final for the first time.
There is still a long way to go and there is another team in the shape of the current league leaders, Hull KR, who would fancy ending that wait come October. But right now, it is impossible to argue against Leigh Leopards being viewed as bona fide title contenders and another who could lift the Super League title aloft for the first time this year.
