Thank you.

I'll always think it's better thant that, as it was the first trophy I saw us win.

Saying that, once we had won it, it's remarkable how little of to55 we gave about winning it again.

Probably you should factor in the waxing and waning prestige of tournaments over time as well. If you wanted to do it properly.

Award points for each trophy in line with the difficulty in winning them.

Championship - 8
League Leaders - 6
Challenge Cup - 4
WCC - 2
Premiership - 4
JP - 4
Yorkshire - 2
Floodlit - 2

Something along those lines?

Along those lines though my grading would be different.

League Leaders (without a championship) = 5
Championship when won by leading league (no playoffs) = 8 (does this even trouble us?)
league Leadership and championship = 10 in total
Premiership shouldn't be the same as CC. reduce to 3
Same with JP = 3
WCC should be 3 IMO as there's no JPS, premiership etc for modern coaches to go for and you get this by winning a championship.

There must be some out there sad enough to get off on compiling the points for each coach once the points awards have been agreed upon.

If we lose on Friday then i'll stand up and applaud Catalans, it takes some doing to go to Belle Vue, the Galpharm and Headingley all in knock out games and come through succesfully. Not to mention the last day win at Saints aswell.

With spelling like that you must be a builder from LS24 (allegedly)

As I'd given it all of about two seconds thought the grading of the comps could be the most interesting part. Other than prestige the Challenge Cup equates to the JP in that it was open to all semi pro clubs and was played over five rounds.



There must be one somewhere. A list of 1st grade coaches could be the difficult part, I wouldn't know where to start compiling that.

Wouldnt you do that even if we win

If we loose on Friday, my first thought will be "Merde," but life will go on.

It'll will still have been a good season, rather than an excellent one, and Bluey must definitely stay.

I think the CC has to have more prestige than the JPS hence a higher mark.

We're just talking about Leeds coaches here and I would be surprised if that were beyond you dear sir.

No.

I'd look forward to the Grand Final first. That comes before my holiday.

You'd be surprised then.

Mid 1975 (Syd Hynes) to date I could probably do without too much effort.

However the reference works that are The Headingley Story Volumes 1 and 2 are somewhat lacking in letting on the secret who coached the Leeds team from season to season. Beyond those I'm probably stuck for inspiration.

Compiling all the SL Era coaches is a current work in progress and it's a b[iitc[/ih let me tell you.

Shame that. Would've been interesting.

Slacker.
Call yourself king of the stats.
Pah.

That's why I never attach the claim and always refer to myself as an enthusiastic amateur.

Still probably better than the official site though.

That's why the rest of us lazy so&sos on here rely on you.
We've given you the title, so you ahve to accept it.
It would be churlish to refuse.

why bring me into your petty tiffs girls?

Wasn't it Roy Francis before Hynes (mid 60s to whenerver Hynes took over). Very helpful I am. Not.

Agree that the YC was a very low grade comp to win - I'd say the John Player Trophy was worth more than the old Premiership as despite being the 'top 8' at least half the teams involved had already given up on the season from the games I saw (especially Leeds for some reaosn most years.......). The WCC I'd say is worth least because it's a one-off, and effectively pre-season for the NRL side. It's a fun thing to win but no more.

IF Catalans are victorious then expect several people to start with the ''its a fix'' or ''they cheated way to final''.

Just like the Giants fans last Friday. Bunch of &^$%$%$