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Good Luck Cas,whatever happens you've had a great season.Hopefully we can be up there having a crack at it next season.
One things for sure that both sets of fans will agree on is............Rhinos 5 on the bounce

This is what I love about RL, despite the odd idiot, the camaraderie that even the most bitterest rivalry can show. You wouldn't get this in football.

That makes no sense at all. I'm drunk.

Thanks for the good wishes, one thing I'm sure of is that next season there will be a lot less points between us at the end.

Can you imagine it being the other way round? No don't think so.
Yes they have been a credit to watch, but to have all these love ins is pure pap, hope the bubble bursts pretty sharp!

If Cas finish top well done to em but I think that just sums up this years competition. When players like Dorn and Sneyd are made to look world class shows how weak SL has been. I'm expecting one of Clark and Shenton to win MOS because they have been stand outs.

If they do win then they'll deserve it, but the lls has been progressively devalued to the point where the top teams don't care about it any more. A bit like when we won the last Yorkshire cup and the way the challenge cup is going.
It will be a great achievement and I wish it was us, but it will be done by winning the fewest games ever. The lls winning team usually wins 21 or 22 games. Cas would only won 18 or 2/3 of them.
Is the lls being awarded next year? If so when? After 23 rounds or after the extra 7?
Mainly, it just raises the bar on our rivalry. We now have to win something, rather than just avoid relegation or scrape into the play-offs.
Bring it on!

What I am inclined to say is 'how the hell have they done it?'
They have no more 'star' players than us, the remainder would struggle to get into the likes of Wigan and Leeds, so what's their secret?
Whatever it is we desperately need some of it at Belle Vue!

To answer my own question I think it's a bit like the 1966 England World Cup winning team when Alf Ramsey picked some very odd and unpopular players but turned them into a 'team'

Powell, a town that backs them, a few stand out players and an excellent team spirit with a smattering of local pride in the team.

Bang on KK.

Man management in pro sport is better than technique or game plans.
If you can convince people that they can do something, they will usually succeed.

Many of the modern coaches know their stuff, like Agar, McNamara, Cullen etc BUT, can they inspire people to perform.
Powell has done a superb job, just as he did at Fev.

IF Cas win the "hub cap" do we really want Cas fans gloating for the next millennium, I certainly don't.

It's been bad enough putting up with Leeds fans over recent years

I can imagine Vinniedog and friends reaction from the nutjob forum if we were in Cas's position. That nails my feeling about their success. Come on Catalan !! Do the decent thing.

That attitude says a lot about the folk you mention. We should stay well out of the gutter and contratulate our near neighbours on a fantastic season that could well end on an even higher plane.

Saints have really bottled it though.

I had to laugh on Sky Sports News "Later on today Catalans host Castlefield" tbh I wouldn't mind Castlefield finishing top.

It's been a tough ask to go over there and win this season, think only 3 teams have done so. It'll still be in the high 20s, maybe pushing 30 degrees. If Cas can pull off this big last test they deserve the LLS, not that many of the Leeds fans will give them credit. The devaluation of the LLS certainly came from the Leeds corner of West Yorkshire and has built momentum the more they have a lethargic end to the regular season combined with 'champion' performances in the play offs. Just look at the last 2 fixtures on Sky. Warrington, Wigan, Saints and Huddersfield all wanted to end the season with wins and finish as high up the table as they could. They provided two games of massive quality despite their injuries and it being the last game of the regular season. Leeds on the other hand have lost 5 out of their last 6 league games. Even Brian Mac said in his post match interview, "It all starts next Saturday." If that's the case, maybe Leeds can enter the league next year at the play-offs stage as the league seems to be an unwanted hindrance for him and the rest of the teams are just peeing in the wind.

I know one thing, when you're turning up week in week out not knowing what the future holds for your team, you'd be shouting from the rooftops that you'd won the LLS.

It pains me to say it but I hope Cas give it their all tonight and we end up with a thriller. Then we can all go on the VT and read posts from Leeds fans of how Cas have failed because the 'hubcap' means absolutely nothing.

It's a kind of bizarre self delusion. Those of us like you and me who've been around a while know that even the supposed most reasonable Cas fan on earth would not reciprocate the sentiments on here.

You could argue it shows we are better than them, but I just don't buy it.