The OP has clearly based his opinion on Mr Hetherington who said the exact same thing in the programme notes at the Salford game.

But he's the CEO and he's obviously going to put a positive spin on things (he even said our CC reecord was "magnificent" - talk about OTT).

To every other person who watched the game though, Leeds were dominated throughout, the second best team by a distance and were well beaten.

Think that was the general feeling.

There so much general chit chat in the stands, the game seemed to be in the background. I think alot of people were there out of habit rather than a desire to see the game. I was.

It would have been impossible for anyone to enjoy that game on Friday.

Indeed, there was more excitement when a group of 4 adults and 8 kids on freebies rolled in nearly 20mins into the game and decided that standing directly infront of us in the Carnegie terrace disabled pen was the way to go.

So your view was blocked? Lucky-.

Considering only two teams have done better in the CC over the last three years, it's a fair comment.

clearly some of the 'Leeds are awful' ingrates need to check the record books for the last few seasons. Taking seasons 2010, 2011 and 2012 (so far)

Trophies:

Wigan: 4 (LLS 2010, 2012, SL 2010, CC 2011)
Warrington: 3 (LLS 2011, CC 2010, 2012)
Leeds: 2 (SL 2011, WCC 2012)
St Helens: 0

Losing Finals

Leeds: 3 (CC 2010, 2011, 2012)
St Helens: 2 (GF 2010, 2011)
Wigan: 1 (WCC 2011)
Warrington: 0

Total of Finals & Trophies:

Wigan: 5
Leeds: 5
Warrington: 3
St Helens: 2

I would hope Mr Hetherington based his assessment of our CC record on success rather than just making up the numbers.

Going by success our record is behind Wigan, Warrington, Saints and Bradford.

Inaccurate figures. What a surprise.

Shut up numpty.

Over the last three years.

Surely you have to regard getting to the final as a greater level of success than going out in your first round?
Winning still means more - hence my pointing out that both Warrington and Wigan can be regarded to have been more successful in the CC despite have made only two and one finals respectively, rather than three.

So you must rate Saints as having a better record than us in grand finals over the last five seasons?

I wouldn't have thought so. He'd give them five "points" for attending five finals. We'd have eight "points" for attending four and winning four.