A great team can only be crowned "A great team" if they win trophies. Sport is all about handling the pressure, the occassion and holding your nerve......as well as having the skill.

The skill alone will help you win on a sunday afternoon in front of 8,000 fans to claim 2 points......

To win trophies - the previous needs to be achieved.

Thats what IMO Leeds need to do to take themselves to the next level, learn to win when they are under pressure at the big occasion of Wembley in front of 80000 fans, it's something Warrington did well but Leeds for all their fine record in other games, have seemed to fall short when it really counts. Lets hope that before the golden generation of Sinfield, Burrow, McGuire and all retire they can emulate Warrington's feats and become a great team.

Early frontrunner for post of the season!

I may be an absolute heretic here, but I want Leeds to win the CC this year, and would possibly even swap that for being Champions again. Thankfully they aren't mutually exclusive (although the double is getting harder IMO).

Just on standards, as somebody who watches NRL and SL, I'd say that SL was getting a bit stale in 2008/09 - quite possibly reflected in the quality of the GFs in those two years. Thankfully Wigan, Wire and to a degree Huddersfield have improved significantly whilst Leeds and Sts have probably stayed about the same standard.

The real problems with SL are the absolutely dismal quality of the bottom 4/5 teams, and - unforgiveably to me - the way far too many sides fall apart completely when they go behind (including Leeds last year vs Wire at home). As Tony Smith said, that doesn't help anybody. You do see big scores in the NRL, but nothing like as often as SL. There seems to be a real lack of pride in performance at some teams - or should that be every team? - every now and then.