Congratulations.
I was completely neutral for the game.
It wasn't the best of games for the neutral fan but Leeds were tactically very good and strangled the life out of Castleford. I'm pleased for the likes of Burrow, Sinfield etc that they now have that medal that obviously means so much to them.

I decided since traveling over since since 2010 I had become a jinx at new Wembley ,but it tore my heart out today keeping up with the score from Philadelphia .so pleased for the old boys and JP is our Jack Charlton.I thought Kirke looked a bit subdued when he got hold of the trophy did he get on ?

What a moronic comment suggesting people should be ashamed for saying Clark (no e) should get man of steel. He's been class this year. Fact.

Congratulations on the win Leeds, made no mistakes in the first half, 100% set completion and made us pay for any mistakes. A typical Leeds big game performance.

Seems a bit OTT. He was poor today, his distribution was shocking at times, however he's had a brilliant season.

Actually, the most shocking thing about Cas has to be Liam Finn's 'haircut' Have some dignity and shave your head lad!

Happy Chappy.

Just in. Still Feckin buzzin. Best team in the world!
Hope all the rhinos players have sore heads in the morning haha.

Thought JP should have got MOM, but Halls finishes where he had no right to score won the game.

Kirke was kirke. Dont remember him taking the ball, but he was in pretty much every tackle when Cas had the ball

Ouch. My head.

Congratulations, and well deserved.....

Felt sorry for Kirke today got about 10 mins game time, and that's not allot even for him, so don't know if he got a knock or not or just not used much, gets a lot of stick bordering on hatred Kirke and really does not deserve it.

Hardaker - superb. Cleaned up everything at the back with ease and helped start our sets off going forward.

Briscoe - very good. Took his try well, along with others made big efforts when returning the ball and to get us rolling forward.

Watkins - at fault for Cas' 2nd try but worked hard all game and looked dangerous every time he had the ball. Along with the other 3/4's helped get our sets going forward.

Moon - like Watkins looked dangerous whenever he had the ball.

Hall - awesome. Both his tries and his carries. Worlds Best Winger. Morris Shmorris.

Sinfield - Sinfield at his best. Controlled the game completely. Calm. Composed. When Sinfield's kicking the goals from the sidelines we always do well.

McGuire - Brilliant. Sinfield, McGuire & Burrow proved how good they still are. Completely controlled Cas. Took the line on a lot more and looked much more dangerous.

Leuluai - big runs, big tackles, intimidating to the opposition. I bloody love Kylie. Proper prop.

Burrow - looked back to his best. Decent distribution from DH and his runs, whilst not breaking through, caused havoc in Cas defence and helped us play the game where we wanted to.

Peacock - please don't retire. Please.

JJB - Adds some speed to our back row and helps our front row out. Takes our defensive line up very quickly. His work was unspectacular, but vital for Leeds. Kind of sums up JJB.

Ablett - had a bit of a quiet game but I thought that was due partly to our tactics. Still looks dangerous near the line. 5m out give the ball to Ablett. Worked very hard in defence.

Delaney - Machine. Defends like a backrower, runs it in like a prop.

Aiton - didn't get that long but when he came on added some spark and energy at a period when we were lacking that a little bit. Ran well from dummy half and tackled well.

Sutcliffe - didn't get long but like Aiton that's because our plan A was working so well. If we'd needed something different he might have provided it.

Bailey - I still don't think he does enough, if you're not going to run in hard or tackle hard like Leuluai or Peacock then you've got to be watertight in defence, and he isn't. Not 1st man in enough and can be lazy in defence, gets stepped too easily.
But did alright yesterday and helped give Peacock a break.

Kirke - whilst, like Bailey, I don't think he does enough, I thought he was much better yesterday. Especially in defence where, despite limited minutes, he was flying in in defence and put a couple of big hits in.

Everyone played their part yesterday. It was a Leeds Grand Final performance and was very pleasing to see we can still do that.
If we play like that we'll be very, very difficult to beat in the playoffs.

Just wanted to say well done Rhino's, best team won. Dissapointed Cas didn't show what they can do. But that was more to do with how you controlled the game, iwas glad you finally managed to break your hoodoo. you could see how much it meant to sinfield and the team. well done again from a cas fan.

congratulations guys, you got your tactics spot on and negated cas' open style on the day
well done and enjoy your weekend

Very Well Done Leeds. Great tactics won you the game pinning us back more a less every set. Your defence was just too good also which has been the case all year. You need to get behind Brian Mc because his tactics won you The game.

Spoke to some Leeds fans on the 21.00 from Victoria. Good chat and no trouble. Well done again. Very deserves winners.

Well done, fully deserved

I lost my Grandad in January and he had been a lifelong Leeds RL fan and he would always ask me when would we get the Challenge Cup as Super League we always had our hands on!
8 months after his passing I cried my heart out at the hooter yesterday as it seemed so ironic we had finally won it.


Great display. Sinfield leadership was sublime, McGuire almost 2004 esq. Burrow creating havoc. Hardaker taking every ball that came in his direction with ease and Ryan Hall being a monster! As for JP, that guy is just a legend!


As for Castleford. The first 20 minutes shook them up big time. There fans were mainly class apart from a couple of numpties starting on a 15 year old of our group but otherwise a fantastic day

My condolences for your loss.

My own dad is approaching 90 years young and is a life time fan and a 30 year season ticket holder until his health precluded him sitting in the stands.

I am so glad he got to see a win again at Wembley.

Also great to see my old mate Billy Watts on the pitch at 91 years young.

I've really got to praise the Cas supporters. Every single one I met was friendly and approachable. I didn't see any trouble and the atmosphere was friendly everywhere! Best final I've been to for years (regardless of result or teams playing as I've been to a few as a neutral) and it's down to both sets of fans getting along with each other rather than getting p|ssed and looking for a fight.

You all did Yorkshire Proud.

Well done Leeds you fully deserved your win. Cas didn't play badly but they couldn't cope with the Leeds machine.

So now it is " wet sponge time"! If you want to know what that means just ask loiner 81.

Congratulations on been 2014 Challenge Cup Winners. No-one can say it wasn't deserved and the best team on the day won. Bet there are some sore heads today lol

Ive not sobered up yet for the sore head to kick in,......reckon about tea time tomorrow after the homecoming, I may start suffering!

I too didn't see any trouble but on the way home yesterday we called in at Donnington services and the lad that worked at WH Smiths was telling us that the police were called out on Saturday evening after a Cas fan smacked a Leeds supporter, completely unprovoked.

Just outside the entrance to the services there was what seemed to be blood stains on the floor.

Does anyone know any more?