I would choose Wigan for club call and save beating Leeds for Old Trafford in an all Yorkshire Grand Final, cos none of them there Lancashire teams can.

Absolutely agree with this

Firstly the achievement for Huddersfield of getting into the top 4 is the key one, and congratulations to them for doing this. This is the real achievement.

"Winning" the LLS means zip.

The rules of the competition ensure this. For this reason you cannot say "it's the reward for being the most consistent team/best team over the season" etc etc

The reality is that teams do not go all out to win the LLS because the structure of the competition means that it's not necessary to do so.

SL is all about a knockout competition at the end of the regular rounds.


If Huddersfield can make it to the GF or even win it, then this will be despite finishing 1st after the regular season, not on account of it.

If we had Club call with Leeds finishing 3rd it wouldn't work as we would've beaten Wigan and they'd be the lowest top 4 loser and play the higher placed 5-8 winner assuming it's Saints.

Are we in a timewarp?

Huddersfield winning the LLS means ZIP to you. It means much more to us. 81 years since we've finished top.

Your bonfire pi$$ing is futile.

we have finished in the top 4 before you know..

you get more cash the higher up the table you are, think its 50k for topping the league

then more cash from whatever money is generated from the play offs

Spot on - to fans whose club have won things regularly it mean nothing, to us it means everything, the world to our club - it may be a stepping stone to further trophies in years to come but for now it is the 1st bit of Silverware for the club to build on. You can bang on all you like, all of you, about it meaning nothing but it will fall on deaf ears, we aren't interested - ITS AN AWARD FOR DOING THE BEST !.

For years we had the you've never won anything crap thrown at us, well now we are on the brink of winning something we get ...ah but that doesn't mean anything......NO ONE AT THIS CLUB GIVES 2 HOOTS WHAT ANYONE ELSE THINKS IT MEANS.

Main point is people will always say something means nothing if they don't have a chance of winning it themselves!!

For me topping the league is really what being champions is all about - Not a knock out competition amongst a much reduced competitive pool of 'talent'!

I'm really happy for Hudds, i don't understand the reason people are giving you such a hard time, it's more a pyschological achievement than the winning of a shield.

Cos we used to be the whipping boys, now we're not and some people can't accept that and throw a paddy !

I don't think they do in the least (at least in the real world forums like these are a law to themselves and hardly represent fans of any club in a good light).

I think most people are happy to see a new team fighting it out with the usual suspects.

Congratulations you are the most consistent side in the league , now all you have to do is to prove you are a champion side by fighting your way through the play offs when all the big boys have no excuses left and win the grand final . In my opinion you can do it but probably only if some one else removes Warrington for you

Just for the record I am not "knocking" Huddersfield or trying to urinate on anyones bonfire.

If you are happy with finishing 1st then good luck to you.

What some of you don't seem to realise though is that the table would undoubtably looked different if finishing top was the aim of the season.

It's perfectly possible that you would still have come top. Unlikely imo, but possible.

Impossible ultimately to say either way.

What is absolutely true (as Wigan know from bitter experience last year) is that it is way more important to hit the playoffs with a healthy, confident squad than it is to finish top after the regular rounds.