It’s OK proposing ideas which would clearly benefit Leeds but we need to consider the wider picture. Leeds have had plenty of ability to build a better side (academy development, marquee signings) but we have just got our recruitment consistently wrong for years.

For me we could and should be doing better to build a higher quality team under the existing rules. As for the wider sport: the problem isn’t the salary cap as much as the general financial weakness of the sport.

I don’t see how introducing more disparity between the clubs will help. We’re not Premier League with a line of billionaires looking to buy RL clubs as trophies.

NRL has salary cap and their product is outstanding.

Thompson’s going isn’t he, and Briscoe?
Zak has been instrumental in our form turnaround and I thought he was very good yesterday.

Prior going round again would be a mistake. We need to exit Tetevano too. He just doesn’t do enough to earn his salary and never has.

We need to bring in one or two more high quality players too.

A salary cap thats twice the SL cap.

So St Helens, Wigan, Warrington, Leeds, Catalans, Hull FC should all have to spend less than they could on playing squads so (example) poor old Wakefield can still have a very small outside chance of success?

The money in the NRL is so much bigger it’s impossible to compare to SL. We lose some of our better players over there and they are average in that competition. We have to do things differently.

First 5 years of franchises should be to existing SL teams but take the shackles off them and make them work to grow their income to fund better players young or mature.

Was pretty confident at half time, then that woeful 4 man attempt on Hurrell happened...Cant defend like that in Grand Finals...Only seen it once and was fair cut but from memory Leeming has got to stop that ball getting to ground. Been critical of Bently this season but thought he was brilliant last night, Rohans really turned the lad around.

Other than that, proud of the squad and coaching team, been an unbelievable turnaround, looking forward to the future more than i have for quite a while.

Congratulations to Saints (and the RFL), but seriously, the best team in the comp won the comp, cant take it away from them, quality side.

A big turning point early in the second half were the 2 back to back penalties conceded by Austin that marched us backwards just when we needed momentum.

Thought Austin had his best game for Leeds yesterday, worked so hard to try to create and really threw (sometimes literally) himself into defence.

We badly missed a second halfback, not that it would have changed the outcome as we were overpowered by Saints. Even their backs run with more purpose than most of our forwards. Still we’ve very clearly turned the corner, now we need more quality on the pitch, we’ve got the right man at the helm now, back him.

He did I'd agree with that, but those 2 penalties were pretty unnecessary and killed us.

I agree with you on franchises and again probably the secret sauce is in how exactly it’s done.

I’m not even sure Leeds want to spend more money on players right now after the stadium development and COVID impact.

One potential benefit of removing the cap is you’d also remove a load of admin which neither the clubs nor the governing body need.

I mean WTF was Smith doing? Trying to congratulate Hurrell?

Absolutely, couldn’t agree more

I think some Leeds fans are a little too blinkered in their ideas of this Saints team.

Like someone said, the record books show them winning 4 in a row. They have to be up there with the best teams ever. Along with our team from '07-'09.

But comparing this Saints team now to us back then for me is hard. The whole back room and recruitment from Saints these last few years has been great. Something a lot of SL teams have lacked. Especially us.

The Saints '06 individually back then was for me better, but the whole Saints club on a whole now is far stronger. That pains me to say it. But it's true! Gawwy may have got Smith right, but the last few years has been hard. Recruitment is massive this close season and we need to get shut of some serious dead wood.

The future for Leeds is looking bright. We have some great youngsters coming through and there's a great buzz about again. MOT!

An obvious but key thing we need to do is have the player that we have playing somewhere near their potential.Easier said than done but Saints do it every year.

Thompson maybe but the other three not super league standard?

What a load of rubbish.

You can use the intensity argument going back 10 years from 2005 to 95 for example, but definitely not going back 10 years from now. Pound for pound, 2000-2010 was probably the best super league era for intensity and entertainment, as well as stars in the competition. We've got into a situation now where basically all the top teams are underperforming (Warrington, hull, Leeds, wigan) and there's no fix because non of them have very good spines, the quality young players for those spines aren't there, and if they are waiting in the wings will take years to come through. Scrapping around for overseas won't work. Saints have a good spine, who are a good age. They will just keep winning and winning...and winning. Attendance in next year's grand final will be lower. Tv money will eventually follow suit.

This is the worst I've ever seen it.

We'd have been better off not making the grand final, never good enough to win it, but now we've got a loss on our copybook.