From an email received today from the RhinosCelebrate Sir Kevin Sinfield Day this Monday

Leeds Rhinos are set to rename Monday 3rd December as Sir Kevin Sinfield Day in honour of their legendary captain, who will celebrate a decade as skipper next Monday.

Sinfield, who is called Sir Kevin Sinfield by Rhinos fans, was given the captain’s armband by then-Head Coach Daryl Powell on 3rd December 2002 when he became the youngster ever captain in the club’s history. In the intervening ten years, the Oldham-born star has led his side to 17 major finals, winning nine of them including a record breaking six Grand Finals, along with two League Leaders Shields.

[iThe club are also looking to use the power of social media to increase awareness of the achievements of the record breaking captain. The Rhinos are asking fans on Twitter to mark a decade of Sinfield’s leadership at 1pm (13[/iDaly added, “What Kevin Sinfield has achieved in the last decade is remarkable and hopefully the best is yet to come. A big admirer of his is Manchester United star Wayne Rooney and he tweeted to his over 5 million followers after the Grand Final about how good Kevin is. However, it would be great to draw the attention of the wider public to Kevin’s contribution to sport in this country and if we can get the hashtag trending on Monday it would be brilliant.”

Let's get #SirKevDay trending on Monday 3 December.

Great captain, great gaol kicker and great man!

Is that seriously the best that you can come up with up??? You're like the Bruce Forsyth of RL Forums, an iconic figure for his past performances from a LONG LONG TIME AGO but now you just have people begging and wishing you'd retire because you're just embarrassing yourself.

He should change his name to something like Sorrowful Jones

Business end of the season games captained by Sinfield:

2003 - Lost away at Bradford 14-30
2003 - Lost at home to Wigan 22-23
2004 - Lost at home to Bradford 12-26
2004 - Won at home v Wigan 40-12
2004 - Won at Old Trafford v Bradford 16-8
2005 - Won away at Saints 19-16
2005 - Lost at Old Trafford v Bradford 6-15
2006 - Lost at home to Warrington 17-18
2007 - Lost away at Saints 8-10
2007 - Won at home v Wigan 36-6
2007 - Won at Old Trafford v Saints 33-6
2008 - Lost away at Saints 10-38
2008 - Won at home v Wigan 18-14
2008 - Won at Old Trafford v Saints 24-16
2009 - Won at home v Hull KR 44-8
2009 - Won at home v Catalans 27-20
2009 - Won at Old Trafford v Saints 18-10
2010 - Won away at Wigan 27-26
2010 - Lost at home to Wigan 6-26
2011 - Won at home to Hull FC 42-10
2011 - Won away at Huddersfield 34-28
2011 - Won away at Warrington 26-24
2011 - Won at Old Trafford v Saints 32-16
2012 - Won at home to Wakefield 42-20
2012 - Won away at Catalans 27-20
2012 - Won away at Wigan 13-12
2012 - Won at Old Trafford v Warrington 26-18

Played - 27
Won - 19
Lost - 8

Plus in the 2005 Tri Nations when we had the likes of Richard Horne at 7, Paul Johnson at Second Row and Jamie Thackray on the bench it's hardly fair to lay all the blame on Sinfield.

He came back into favour towards the end of 2004 as I recall. I was still unconvinced, and was n't entirely happy when he was in the Grand Final team.

I'm an idiot.