Brilliant on reflection, can't complain, i should be gutted but strangely i'm feeling quite positive.

Oh and Roy Asotasi, put that effort in every game and i'll apologise profusely.

The deflation after the opening game v Saints, and the prospect of a long, tough season is a distant, distant memory and although our campaign is over, the number of positives vastly outweights the negatives.

The experience the youngsters have gained, with the prospect of the new players coming in leaves us in very good nick indeed.

As for big Roy, I am now ceasing using that monicker in a sarcastic sense - I thought the fella was absolutely superb tonight. Yes, we can all wonder where it's been all year but I won't contemplate any negativity tonight in his direction or any other.

Head is held high, heart is full of optimism and they'll have to reform The Smiths to upstage that next week.

You should be gutted. You've missed a glorious opportunity to win it as I doubt you'll get many easier finals than this year could have been. You should have won tonight, chances were there.

But with the young English core of Russell, O'Brien, Ratchford, Clarke, England, Currie, Harrison etc you've got a lot to look forward to.

That's it Sad one, it's the fact we actually have a core amount of guys for quite some time, it will help with stability, this is the best i've felt from the initial feeling of being gutted.
So many positives i'm almost ok.

Tonight was a huge missed opportunity. Won't get a sitting duck team like saints in the final again in the near future. You should be totally gutted.

We've had golden opportunities to win Super League for the last four years in a row and we haven't taken a single one of them. We're an also-ran club. We always have been with the exception of a brief period around the time my 60 year old dad was born and we always will be. That's the bottom line. Absolutely gutted.

Tonight is up there with 2011 in the blown opportunity stakes.

...nail on head.

Missed the 11 semi due to work, but listened to it. Couldn't bring myself to watch the recording
2012. Got beat by a battlehardened Leeds
2013. BOTTLED IT BIG STYLE. I don't care what anbody on here says about injuries. WE BOTTLED IT.
Tonight...we never got started. Limited them to one try after all that pressure, and got 2 fortunate tries ourselves, and then wasted the last 10 mins.

Couple that with back to back CC semi defeats, are we turning into the new Saints. Entertaining, but......

Also-ran club is a total overreaction. Most clubs would be happy to have enjoyed the success and profile we have had since 2009 and winning trophies, minus the one that counts, is frustrating but does not warrant that kind of comment.

With only three trophies to play for (and I'm being generous including the LLS) the margins between tangible success and agonising failure have never been tighter. On that basis, and given the club have delivered the kind of success I could only dream about a [ivery[/i short time ago I'm happy to put my dissapointment to one side, reflect on the positives and leave the likes of proud, genuinely-underachieving clubs like Hull, Huddersfield & Bradford to wear the also-ran badge with justification.

Not gutted in the slightest. We matched the mighty Wigan for most of the game and they nicked it. Remember we were missing Benny, Grix and Bridge for most of the game. Roll on next season. I can think about 9 other SL clubs who would gladly swap our season for theirs.

Finally, what a game, amazing.

If you genuinely can't see the positives then...wow.

Cas are being assest stripped, so much for their good season.

Wakefield probably finishing bottom

Saints are losing their coach, Walsh will be gone end of 2015, their main man is Travis Burns.

Leeds golden generation are in the golden years of their career.

Hudds are THE bottlers

Catalans are the danger men for next year BUT their travelling kills them.

Bradford...gone

London...gone

Hull FC

Hull KR lost yet another halfback

Salford all mouth, literally

Widnes have their two cup matches v us and then become irrelevant

The only club to fear are Wigan.

Exactly - Since 2009, there has been 12 trophies on offer ..... Leeds have won 4, we have won 3, and, after next week, Wigan will have won 5 - no other club has had a sniff, or even looked likely to get close.

Its disappointing we have fell short again, but considering how inconsistent we have been for most of the year, to come so close to another GF date was a pretty decent effort, especially how we have done it without an established half back partnership.

With a bit of natural progression with the youngsters over winter and our new signings (who look pretty useful), next season, and a fair few after, should see us continue challenging for the big prizes, which is all any supporter can ask for - Nobody has a God-given right to win trophies.

Would anyone else liked to have seen Hock come on in a Wire shirt midway through the first half?