THE celebrations are over, the open-topped bus is parked back in the garage and the Challenge Cup is safely locked away in the trophy cabinet.
After the hiatus brought about by two Covid postponements, Saints are back in due back in training today with a renewed focus on retaining the Super League title.
Saints have never done three league titles in a row - under any system.
The league and cup double itself is hard has only been achieved five times since Super League began - twice by the Saints.
Kristian Woolf's men will be looking to match the achievements of Shaun McRae's crop of the inaugural summer campaign of 1996 and Daniel Anderson's all-conquering crop of 2006.
But it is a challenge Woolf backs his side to rise to, while explaining the difficulties it presents and the lessons they have already taken on board.
"I can see why it is so difficult and if I can reflect back to last year a little bit, we threw a lot of effort and energy into a World Club Challenge and performed terrifically and in hindsight it took a lot out of us," he said.
"We did not see that fatigue factor until a couple of weeks later.
"That is something we have referenced and learned from – and put things in place after the Challenge Cup to make sure that we don’t end up in the same position.
"I can see why it is really difficult to do and recover from – because essentially you are, both emotionally and effort wise, playing a Grand Final in the middle of the year.
"But unlike a Grand Final you have to come back and re-gather yourself and get going again – so it is a difficult thing to have to handle."
Leeds were the last team to do the double in 2015, two years after Wigan had done it.
Apart from Saints, only the Bradford Bulls juggernaut of 2003 have taken out both pieces of silverware.
This will all add to the Saints motivation as they set out to write themselves into the club history books.
"The things we put in place have been changed a little bit by the Covid situation.
"But we need to re-set and have a look at how we are going to attack the last seven and half weeks of the competition to make sure we give ourselves a chance by winning enough games and playing enough games to be playing in finals.
"I have got every confidence that we have the hunger in us. "What we need is a bit of luck to get through the back end of the year – with Covid and injuries.
"But if we can get a healthy team at the end of the year we can give ourselves every chance with the hunger that I have seen," he said.
Fittingly, Hull's KC Stadium - the scene of last year's Grand Final triumph - is where it restarts on Monday.
Saints have already beaten them twice this year, including the Challenge Cup semi-final.
"We know plenty about Hull and they know plenty about us.
"It is a great game to come back to – you want a game that you know is going to excite the players because it is a real challenge.
"That is exactly what Hull FC are.
"Coming off the back of what we did in the Challenge Cup, and the positive we got from that, then the negative around Covid – then getting the Hull game to sink our teeth into, I think it is perfect for us," Woolf said.
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