I think we needed all season to finish top to have any real shot of a good play off campaign. Leeds and Wigan did not and I think Wire fall somewhere in between.

Win tomorrow and the belief levels will rise and that is what we need.

Only time will tell which club has had the right strategy but then again the GF winners might not have got it right even if they win it but we have done it the way we have had to and I think how we challenge year on year is far more important than how this season ends as I am sure Baloo has a long term plan not a 2013 or bust attitude and if this is just the start anything that happens after picking up the LLS (assuming we do) is a bonus.

If so many teams aren't bothered about winning the LLS then how come more teams haven't won it yet? If idiots think that players set out on the field of play to lose a game then they must be deluded. There's 3 pieces of silverware to win each season and if players and teams don't want to win these trophies then they don't deserve to be professional sportsmen.

oh a different team is going to win the LLS rather than the usual so called big boys...

this is just not on at all shame on you huddersfield!

looking forward to seeing this team lifting the shield will live long in the memory

Leeds did it last year when Wigan were naive enough to aim for top spot at the exclusion of having a fit, healthy team for the playoffs.

It's not about Wigan, Huddersfield or any club. It's about the structure of the competition.

Comprehension not your strong point? Makes perfect sense to me in response to your underlined and in bold comment which is I'm assuming the main point you were trying to make ( rather than just coming across as desperate) if I were you I'd toddle off back to the rest of the "straw clutchers" on your board. See you in the playoffs- or perhaps not going by your recent form.

Absolute rubbish! If you are trying to compare Leeds of last season with Wigan of this you are way off the mark! Leeds did not "rest" star players for several games, they did not play without flair or direction. They lost a few games at the odd time in the season but did not come into the playoffs in a poor run of form with a team who hadn't played together as a unit all season. You clearly don't have a fit healthy squad! Unlike the giants who most certainly have- and what's more a fit healthy squad who have played together all season and just had a weeks rest! More straw clutching!

In recent years wigan warrington and huddersfield (this year) have all won it, they have all been teams who have had lean periods of differing degrees so finishing top is obviously a milestone and seen as a stepping stone for bigger success.

Before that, perennial grand final contestants leeds and saints won it between themselves for 6 or 7 years, mainly due to the fact there was little other competition, but also the most important fact. The playoff system changed. In recent years finishing in the top 2 wasn't as important as it once was so you've seen the usual grand final suspects reign in their regular season performances.

If huddersfield win it this year 6 different teams have won it, almost 50% of the team in the competition.

So what exactly do you mean, how come more teams haven't won it?

The point I was trying to make is that if the so called big clubs are not bothered about winning the LLS and it means nothing then why haven't more lesser clubs won it over the years? If its not thought highly by certain clubs and individuals then why haven't other clubs targetted the LLS as a genuine chance of winning silverware because all of the top teams are saving themselves for the playoffs and are less worried about where they finish in the playoff positions!!

It will be 43% of the teams currently in SL who will have won the LLS if we do it tomorrow, 36% of the teams at the moment. From all of the teams who have actualy played in SL over the years the percentage goes down to 27% in a 14 team division. Thats not alot considering nobody gives a s££t about it

Only 4 teams have won the GF (29%) so far and this goes upto 36% if a new club was to win the GF this season. Only 6 different teams have actually played in a GF, 43% of clubs going off the teams currently in SL. This equates to 18% of all teams who've actual played in SL winning the GF and 27% of the teams who have played in SL over the years making the GF!!!

Its all numbers but looking at the percentages there doesn't seem to be much difference percentagewise between the teams winning the GF and the LLS so I'd say teams do want to win the LLS and set out at the start of the season to do so!!!

Steady on moggie- school doesn't start till next week!