Why?

I stated on more than 1 occasion that it's highly unlikely (infact, I don't think we will win either), but, having said that, we are 1 of only 2 clubs left with the possibility of doing this - regardless of how remote our chances are.

Simply interested in how people would look back on this season if it were to happen! Would people still want Mcdermott gone etc?

Yes I would, unless the performances improve i.e. we look like we know how to play the game.

Now can we please stop living in cloud cuckoo land cos the challenge cup is a big enough hurdle.

If Leeds do the double, I will walk up the steps of Old Trafford and personally hand Kevin Sinfield the SuperLeague trophy myself.

If this were to happen the season would be looked upon as a huge success and Brian Mac would have achieved something Murray, Lance, Powell, Smith and McLennan failed to do, with what I would consider, in some cases, a lesser squad.

He would have proved himself to be the greatest Leeds (Super League) coach of all time


Of course, it will never happen. Even winning the Challenge Cup would be a huge achievement in my opinion

Leeds are 60/1 to do the double at the bookies.

Believists, fill yer boots.

Where did you get those odds???
I'm emptying my bank account now.

I would still want McDermott gone. Because the rugby is appalling to watch, and we're clearly not the best team in the comp.

If we beat Wigan in both finals, we'd have no real bragging rights. We'd have a few artificial bragging rights but any Leeds fan would know in the heart that, whatever trophies we had won, Wigan are/were by far the better team this year. I'd rather (and this is just me personally!) know that we'd earned any trophies or titles by being the best team. Rather than putting in 2 x 80 minute performances that just happened to be in finals.

Just my opinion.

This squad want to win the Challenge Cup so badly, and know it will take a huge performance to do it - last chance saloon for this group of players you could say.

If they do win the Cup, no way would they then be able to raise themselves to the level needed to win the Grand Final from 6th.

They probably don't have the hunger to do that either, as most of the squad already have multiple GF wins.

Ah but what about winning the grand final from 4th?????
Now THAT would be achievable!!!

For 2 of our last 3 Super League titles we were not the best team in the comp but turned up for the finals and ended up making history. A win's a win and trophy's a trophy IMO, not being the best team throughout 2007 or 2008 doesn't negate the achievement at all for me

I think the whole of this season has been focused on getting to Wembley. I don't think they're not interested in the league, but I think they all have a score to settle because of their poor performance last year. Sinfield was obviously very emotional about getting there and I think that feeling is probably common throughout the team.

My thoughts exactly - it would feel like a very hollow victory as a fan.

(Isnt it much more fun when you just share your opinion - that's what these boards are generally for, rather than trying to make yourself look clever as per your first reply)

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