How the Grand Final became the main event.How Catalans' success has taken French rugby league to 'different level'."We want to take the opportunity obviously, there's still a drive to achieve, but certainly no pressure." "They've achieved so many things and will be looked back on in such a positive way, I think they deserve to relax and enjoy it. "Over the past three years, two Grand Finals and a Challenge Cup, this group has achieved so many things that they get to relax and enjoy it as a group this time, regardless what happens with the result. "We've got an opportunity obviously and we know what the opportunity is and realise how big it is as well. "There's no pressure on this group whatsoever," Woolf said. Their fans will remember those games less than fondly, given each of those Rhinos triumphs were at St Helens' expense.īut under Justin Holbrook and then current boss Kristian Woolf, Saints have won the past two Grand Finals - beating Salford in 2019 before a last-gasp win over Wigan last season, and can make it a 2021 double following their Challenge Cup final win over Castleford in July. Meanwhile, Saints would equal a rare feat if they are to achieve success at Manchester United's 'Theatre of Dreams', by matching Leeds' consecutive title wins of 2007, 20. Coote & Naiqama target Grand Final hat-trick with Saints.Listen: 5 Live's Super League Grand Final preview.I've sensed it before with this group and when we're like that we're a dangerous animal." "Now we are here, we feel free and I've sensed that all week. "I thought we did a good job, not a great job, but the players were anxious and I was a bit anxious because there was expectation, and we wanted to get 'here'. "There were fireworks, flares, horns and whistles, and it blew everybody away. "The pressure was last week, the scenes were like a Galatasaray match in Istanbul," McNamara told BBC Sport. Having overcome that pressure and expectation, Catalans head to Old Trafford with freedom in their minds.
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