WHILE we are in the off-season, we are going to take this time to look back at some of the great games Saints have won over the years.
This week we take a walk back to Old Trafford 2000 when Saints made history by becoming the first side to win back-to-back Super League titles with a 29-16 triumph .
Ian Millward's men had bounced to the final after the Wide to West win over Bradford Bulls and a 54-16 win at League Leaders Wigan booking their spot at the Theatre of Dreams.
But the game was a tighter affair than the scoreline suggests, but helped by a captain's knock from Chris Joynt Saints came through to take the title.
It was a day of farewells for Saints - with long-serving prop Apollo Perelini as well as Fereti Tuilagi and Julian O’Neill bowing out.
In a nip and tuck first half
Centre Sean Hoppe, in for the injured Paul Newlove, opened the scoring when he slipped through three tacklers to touch down.
Skipper Andy Farrell levelled the scores five minutes later and the cherry and whites began to get on top.
Joynt had a try chalked off for failing to ground the ball but then made no mistake when he crossed from close range.
Paul Sculthorpe slotted a drop goal from 25 yards out to push the score up to 11-4 at half time.
Sean Long's break set up Joynt for his second to put Saints in the driving seat at 17-4.
But nothing is easy in Saints v Wigan clashes and David Hodgson and Tony Smith grabbed a try each to make it 17-16 leading into the nerve-jangling final minutes.
Tuilagi powered over in the corner and then with 20 seconds remaining, young substitute Tim Jonkers finished off a long-range movement to put the icing on the cake.
Skipper Joynt lifted the trophy after collecting the Harry Sunderland Award for a second time.
Bernard Platt captured the pictures that day. So take a wander down Memory Lane in our picture gallery.
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