You're kidding, right?

Not a chance they will do the double, but in a hypothetical situation they would have to:

Beat Wigan at Wembley.
Then, in consecutive weeks (I'm picking the teams on current league position and assuming the highest placed team won each play-off game):
Beat Castleford, at home.
Beat Saints, away.
Beat Warrington, away.
Beat Wigan at Old Trafford.

If they did that, there would be a lot more to it than simply putting in two 80 minute performances in Finals, as you say.

You could even say that in that highly improbable scenario that that would be a bigger achievement than it took to win any of the 'Three in a row' Grand Finals.

I think the quality of our rugby in recent years was so much better than we are currently achieving. A lot of question marks would remain over the coaching staff for me even if we took the double.

to do the double we would just about have to go the rest of the season unbeaten and we had a post like this early in the season and we know what happened after that.this is where we came in

I much prefer being a tw*t if I'm honest.

I use the anonymity to be a cocky & obtrusive know-it-all smart a[ir[/ise, given that's nothing at all what I'm like in 'real life' I find the contrast invigorating.

Good post this

Win or lose in the Cup Final, I expect we'll fade away to nothing in the league/play-offs. Wigan may find it a bit harder this year as well going into the play-offs - winning or losing at Wembley, especially so close to the end of the season can seriously damage your play-off ambitions.

agreed....but we wont win the CC Final will we ? and then go on to win the grand final ? hard as it is to say we have no chance of this with Mcdermott

If in our dreams this was ever possible you have just totally jinxed it! And I don't even believe in superstition.

The hope for the rest this season, really, lies in our 2005 experiences of defending a title. At this point in 2005 we had been awesome all season but it was around late July and early August that the wheels started to come off a bit and cracks appeared. By the time we lost in Cardiff all momentum had stalled and really we only made it ot Old Trafford because Saints imploded at the end of the season as well.

Could the same happen to Wigan? To be honest, I can see it hurting them in the play-offs if it's going to, but I can't really predict them going far enough off the boil to lose out at Wembley.

Nah, you can tell by their form and the way they've played the wheels aint coming off anytime soon.

Our form gradually declined in 2005 it's just the sh*t didn't hit the fan until senior got injured against bradford and the CC the week after.

Yeah, you're probably right. We live in hope though.

Mind you, assuming we're not going to be winning the title, it makes no odds to me who does instead.

It does to me.

Warrington or saints.

If wigan win it, i'm worried they'll equal our record of 3 in a row.

Elvis,Jonny Cash and Jimi Hendrix have formed a band with the Glen Miller Orchestra and will be appearing at the post final celebration bash to celebrate the Rhinos victory.

If by some miracle we win the GF then I couldn't care less if anyone else thinks it's a hollow victory. If 4 other top 8 clubs can't beat us in the play-offs then we'll bloody well deserve it.