St Helens’ World Club Challenge success against Penrith was the biggest win we’ve ever seen in Super League history.
This was no ordinary NRL team. The Panthers had only lost ten games in three years. And there’s questions about the difference in standards between Super League and the NRL and them being wider than ever before. If that is true then it makes that victory a week ago even more remarkable as it would mean Penrith are probably the strongest NRL champions of the last 20 years because of the sheer strength of their competition.
So, for Saints to go down there and win in the way they did was just absolutely incredible. That should stay with those boys for the rest of their lives as a seminal moment in their careers and a real shot in the arm for the sport over here in England.
