Monumentul effort and end result.

Good result big effort

Fantastic performance and a great result despite Ganson giving them all the 50/50 calls and some phantom decisions.

Can't say they weren't warned!

First off, as a Wire fan, I'd just like to say what a fantastic effort both sides put in last night.....Earlier in this thread I'd said that Wire had to bottle it to lose last night, but credit to Leeds, despite what all the trollers will say, Wire did not bottle it, we simply got pipped by a superb Leeds performance.

Secondly, and I know I'm going to sound slightly bitter, but surely Leeds' play off displays show the absurdity of the whole play off system and the fact that the winners are the ultimate 'champions'?

For most of this season, Leeds have been pretty average, Wire have been, on the whole, impressive.....Wire top a league after 27 games and it means nothing, Leeds get to possibly win 4 matches in a row and are crowned 'champions', despite being average for most of the year.

I've nothing against the play-offs as a competition, just the crowning of the winners as seemingly the league's best....Its bizarre that the Challenge Cup gets a slating because its seen as being easy to win, because you only have to win 5 games, yet the play-offs you only have to win 4??

Anyway, that's my rant over....Good luck in the final, I just hope you can raise your game again...After last night, it will take a mighty effort.

Couldn't agree more ...in ALL respects. Justice was done. A remarkable effort from the team and I hold my hands up...I didn't think they could do it.

I did think, however, that if by the slightest chance the team did conquer Warrington then it will go on to win its FIFTH GF. Brilliant.

The above happened to us in 2005 in my opinion. For me we were the best consistent team in the competition and granted we got to the final but lost.

On the contrary I have every sympathy with your position: it does smack of absurdity. The RL must be praying the winners of tonight's match are crowned "champions".

Anyone but Wigan...PLEASE

Perhaps you can now share your experience with us all?

Well said

As I have stated elsewhere...it's a travesty that the man hasn't being given his more natural convincing full 80 mins role more often.

How many more MOM performances might we have seen ?

Thats the most gutted I have ever felt after a game. As I keep saying to me the SL is the be all and end all. I wasnt upset after losing to Hull that year and had a good trip back but the Bulls game hurt bad.

Those are the rules though. They have been for 13 years now and I have never complained. What a lot of the fans who are new to the top of the table dont realise is that you have to time your run. As we proved in 06 (was it?) the first half of the season we looked unstoppable. Then it all went wrong. After that we never really started to get going until the last 7 or 8 games. Even last year we looked average throughout the year but turned it on towards the end of the year. It was a very good Wigan team that stopped us going for a 4th though.

Over the course of the playoffs I can only name 2 teams that have won the LLS. Us in '04 and us in '09. Apart from that I dont have a clue. I can tell you however, who won the SL Title in each of those years.

Been.

Well it just goes to show that SL is all about [icurrent form and momentum[/i and not about past results.

You failed to see the clear evidence that Leeds had JP & DM finally back to fitness and form and the coach had got the whole squad motivated and playing with confidence. Add to that this teams big match experience and mental toughness and an upset was on the cards.

We have now beaten in recent weeks 4th place twice and 1st place once. Add to that a near win at Wembley against 2nd place and you see that Leeds are peaking at the business end of the season.

The following are some other pre-match thoughts of KS

Bugger

.....but at least I don't get it's / its , or compliment / complement mixed up ( I notice even the YEP is getting that one wrong now )