After such a great season it seems odd but The HJ does not seem like a fortress to me. We lost 7 games all season and 5 of them were at home!
Next Season, make every home game a final.

Yeah but you fail to recognise Leeds got to wembley too! If they had gone out early and not rested players they could have finished fourth.

Leeds were poor at times but made both major finals winning the biggest prize on offer!

Noble was always the master of starting poor, building up and around September/October making a run for the summit.

It seems his protege has carried it on. You cant just decide how to start a season however, if you play well you win, sometimes you can play poorly and lose or win, i dont think you can intentionally end up in a story like Leeds did or the Bradfords / Wigans under Noble did.

Thing is, we never 'lost form' going into the playoffs, the week before we stonked Huddersfield, wins at Hull, Catalans, Wigan etc.

We just got beat by a penalty in a knockout, we weren't great on the day but we didn't lose form. The GF really was played at the HJ that night, that's as close as anybody has come to stopping Leeds.

I think there's things we didn't do well on the night, handling nerves, handling the occasion etc, but we didn't lose form.

If we finish 1st again next year, we'll have a damn good chance of winning SL, I wouldn't say the same from 5th.

Win every game. I don't care how we win, just win. Does it matter if a golfer gets a par four from a good drive, good iron shot, and two putts...or from three 'hacks' and a putt.....no, it doesn't, it's just a score written down. You don't get anymore points for winning with flair (though it's nice to do)

As I've said many times on here (and Serge has, earlier), make the HJ a 'fortress'. Home defeats are difficult to take, particularly to teams you 'should' be beating.

And obviously (as this season shows), save your best rugby for the end of the season.
Leeds have 'stunk the house out' at times, this season, but (as the way the comp is structured), they are GF winners, like it or not.

Prey your big game players chose not to have their worst performances, in the biggest games.

Play exactly the same,if we play the same way a grand final will come.

Lets not forget we did what Leeds did this year back in 1986, in fact we actually sacked our coach mid way through that season and when we appointed tony Barrow as coach with Boyd as his assistant we went on an eight match unbeaten run managed to finish 4th and then beat Wembley bound Wigan and Champions Halifax to win The Premiership final. We had plenty of average seasons again after that but couldnt replicate that feat

it will be a long long time before a team copies the Leeds way of winning it and more than likely next year the finalists will come from the top 3 so lets finish top again and have teams fear playing us.

Spot on, play like we did all last season and we will be at O/T.

Play our first team for the first half of the season and get to the top then play our reserves the second half of the season go down to about 5th or 6th in the table then bring our first team back for the playoffs and win the grand final

All we need to remember is that it's a sprint not a marathon

Am not going to be bothered when we lose a game next season, Leeds lost 11 and didn't win any against the top 4 until the Play-offs.

Finish top 4.

Win your next 2 games and boom your a Grand Final.

Simples 4th will do me.

Incorrect! Try and get your facts right