I never in a thought we could win the league. To do it over 8 months week in week out, performance after performance, no i didn't think we could. I had us down for finishing 4th to be honest, but i knew we always had a chance in the playoffs, one off games, ref decisions go your way, injuries to opposition and you can win it. Especially with the new format meaning its a lot easier to win it from 4th. In cup football anything can happen. Its only over 4 weeks.

haha! been brainwashed have we?!!!

What you dont realise is that the top teams nowadays time their run for the end of the season. If you know the champions are crowned in the playoffs why kill yourselves in the beginning. We did that in 05 and look where it got us... nowhere. We did it again in 08 and were lucky enough that we had such a big lead when the playoffs suited a top 2 finish to recover. Last season we started playing with about 2 months of the season left and we have done similar this year with the 1 blip recently coming in the Cup Final unfortunately.

And cut the BS with this brainwash crap... this is the way its been for 12 years now. All team/players/fans know the format and how you are crowned as Champions and it seems the only teams that dont like it are you and Saints. We didnt b[ii[/itch and moan when the Lower ranked Bulls beat us in 05. We accepted it, as they were the comp rules.

Brainwashed. Such a shame.

'we started playing with about 2 months of the season left' what about the other months? I want to see the best all season, not for 2 months. Don't bend over and just accept it mate. Would you accept it if you did more work than anyone else in your job but didn't get your bonus because you didn't 'peak' at the end of the year?? That's BS.
I'm not surprised you didn't 'bitch' and 'moan' when you lost in 05! You hadn't even finished top you cheeky beggar!

Aye, but even if we had have finished top in Leeds we know it means nothing. No ones ever called us champions the 2 times its happened in SL. In fact when we "won" the LL Shield at Salford last season the Salford music man played we are the champions and it was rather cringeworthy.

The reason we dont try to peak until the back end of the season is because we know we can play at 50% for the first 2/3rds of the year and still win the comp. Thats just the way it is. If you dont like it go watch soccer.

And we still lost to a team that finished below us in '05. It hurt as we were the better team throughout the year but they beat us when it count. We accepted it because as I said, those are the comp rules.