There have been plenty of hints already from this St Helens side over the past four seasons but if ever a performance underlined how we are witnessing the greatest team of the modern era, perhaps this was it. On the face of it, nothing seems out of the ordinary about a victory over fourth-placed Huddersfield that keeps the reigning champions four points clear at the top. But scratch the surface, and there are countless reasons to marvel at the quality Kristian Woolf’s side possesses.
Their march towards an unprecedented fourth consecutive title continues at pace here. Yet after three minutes, they lost their full-back, Will Hopoate, to injury and faced a tactical reshuffle. Ten minutes later, they were reduced to 12 men when Sione Mata’utia was sent off for making contact with a potentially injured player. But this St Helens side somehow seem immune to blows as significant as those, even against a title rival in Huddersfield.
