i am absolutely speechless after yesterdays win
what a real show of guts and determination from the whole club in turning around our clubs fortunes from 2016 and also the embarrassing heavy defeat away to cas earlier in the season,brian mac called it holding their nerve and they certainly did that to deliver yet another gf win against all the odds

the moral of this is,write this club off at your peril

I totally agree, not sure that Gale would lose the MOS vote, but surely Mac deserves Coach of the Year transforming the team from qualifiers to CHAMPIONS without breaking the bank.
Well done Brian and everyone connected with the club.

Well done Leeds. Outclassed us in every department. Think we made 18? errors throughout which is criminal in a final. Whilst you made errors yourself every time we got the ball in decent ish position from your errors we messed up completely. Still was a good day out and hopefully a learning curve for us for future times.

DP was very honest in his post match interview. Cas possibly put in their worst performance of the season allied to a Leeds side that was not going to let two legends leave the playing staff without one more GF ring. DP is a fine coach and hopefully will come back to Headingley one day. He's got unfinished business at Cas for now.

Absolutely agree, but this same line has probably been posted after at least our last 4 Grand Final winning appearances, yet the same usual suspects don't learn the lesson and continue to bad mouth, bag and generally dis-respect the champion character, spirit and application that our team have in bucket loads.

I'm happy for people to have and opinion on and even criticise what they deem as poor performances and poor recruitment, but time and time again, the core group of blokes running this club, playing in this team have proven that they know how to get the job done, yet people are so quick to write them off mid-season and call for heads to roll.

I have no doubt the same will happen next year - and I can see us having a struggle again without Danny and Rob - I don't see who's going to be that game manager for us like Danny was last night. But I can tell you one thing for sure, even if things are not looking good, I won't be criticising Hetherington or McDermott, and I won't be one who'll be suggesting our guys won't be able to find a way out of it.

Well we had the usual talk of players needing changing and coaches needing changing which is fair enough I guess but some were saying the club ethos needing changing. After last night that is the most ridiculous thing.

Like McDermott said post match when they went through all that mess in 2016 and after the Cas hammering early season, the answer was to hold your nerve. Some fans didn't and call themselves realists, some fans could hold their nerve and were called apologists and sheep because of it.

Huge congrats to Leeds and especially McDermott who is a very fine human as well as a dignified and skilled coach.

As a Wires fan, I hope our rise from the ashes of the qualifiers is as spectacular.

This.

I hope Gary Hetherington is taking note - "This month is an important one, with games against Catalans Dragons, Wakefield Trinity, Huddersfield Giants and Wigan Warriors, and at its end we will be in a much better position to make an accurate judgement on the performance of all our players, coaching staff and senior management, including myself.... we are not stubborn enough to believe no change is always the best option."

Bloody doom monger, I hope he wasn't allowed to join in the celebrations

i must have missed his email after every other game we lost then, especially the one after the loss to Wakefield away

Indeed that is a great observation. No two teams are alike but all have been overcome. The best team over the season (not least in their four meetings with Leeds) not allowed to perform on the night - albeit coupled with their worst showing.

it was as if Cas were mesmerized by Old Trafford