Now that it's all done, including the World Cup, what were your 5 favourite things this year?

For me, it's:

1. Being Champions!
2. Danny Mag's Superman dive for his first GF try.
3. Carl Ablett making an absolute nuisance of himself against Wigan at HQ
4. Tom Briscoe's turn around in form. He struggled for most of the season, making unforced erros in nearly every game, leading up to the semi final with Hull where they targeted him. Since that game, he knuckled down and turned it all round, culminating in a two try display at Old Trafford.
5. In the GF, with less than a minute to go in the first half, the ball went out of play for a scrum to Leeds. The players rushed to stop the clock in order to get another set of six. In that set of six, Danny Mag scored his first drop goal. The desire of the players to get as much as possible out of the half was glorious to see. As was the old Tony Smith 'jogging off past the opposition' tactic at half time.

Whilst there were criticisms of performances this year I thought the home wins vs Wigan in the 8's and against Warrington were very good performances with good atmospheres.

The last few minutes of the final South Stamd game as we held off Saints with McGuire making the final tackle in front of the South Stand. Had a tension and relief of a playoff semi final.

Matt Parcell coming in and being excellent.

Watkins' taking on the goal kicking and doing a bloody good job of it. Landed a massive pressure one in the playoff semi, a touch line beauty after Briscoe's 2nd in the GF and a couple of tough ones in the CCSF all be it in vain in the end in that game. To go from a bit of a laugh 4th choice when he kicked vs Leigh in the final game of 2016 to landing big pressure kicks in the playoffs 12 months later is a great effort and has ended the long running discussion about needing to sign a goal kicker.

The GF of course. Every GF win has had a great atmosphere but this was one of the best as they almost felt like a nothing to lose attitude in the Leeds fans before kickoff and much more relaxed and enjoying the occasion without the same nerves as some of previous finals.

1. The emergence of Jack Walker - potentially a once in a generation player
2. Pulling down of the old Southstand - a relic in an era before the 2nd WW - the new stand looks amazing
3. The starting of a ladies team - well done Leeds might not embrace reserve grade but this is a positive move
4. Danny McGuire's GF performance - eclipsed any performance by any Leeds player in a GF
5. Kallum Watkins in the WC - showed he could mix it with the very best

I'm not sure details of you watching a player in the toilets should appear on a family forum. Nice to know he can perform when the pressure's on though, I guess.

We don't want to know about your deep depths of your mind

1. Going to the Grand Final knowing we were underdogs but just happy to be in the final, then seeing the lads show everyone why they should never be written off in a final.

2. Seeing Danny and Rob off in the best possible style

3. Watching some promising talent develop through the season.

4. Seeing off the old south stand and the main stand and then seeing the start of the emergence of the new stands.

5. The look of shocked disbelief on the faces of those in Black and Orange, some of who had told us we were wasting our time coming a couple of hours earlier, as we left OT on the 7th October.

Can't believe nobody has mentioned the mobile phone light show. First time that was done was hilarious and looked great.

The video of the lads singing and dancing to Sweet Caroline whilst on the celebratory beers was the highlight for me.
Perfectly summed up the post grand final feelings - pure elation, and really funny to rub it into the wounds of a group of somewhat arrogant pretenders!

Sal - the only one of yours I'd argue with was McGuire's performance being the best by a Leeds player in a GF. I'd say Burrow's 2011 was better as the opposition was tougher and he completely changed the game. Whilst McGuire played very well I'd say that Cas were the poorest opponents we've played in any of our GF wins.

I agree entirely re Watkins in the World Cup. I have no doubt at all he'd be a star in the NRL in the right team. Like a few other England players it seemed to take him a few games to realise how good he is.

Its a fair point on McGuire - I just thought he controlled the game without any assistance from Moon - it was understated brilliance.

Whilst I take issue with the lack of assistance from Moon, I agree about Danny's being possibly the best MoM GF performance. Rob's in 2011 was a couple of moments of brilliance, but Danny was amazing for pretty much the whole match. Setting up tries, scoring tries, kicking drop goals and making crucial tackles.

Were gonna miss that lad, that's for sure.

Again a fair point about Moon - my view is he is not half back and offers very little in that area of the game i.e. control, direction, game pace etc.

McGuire was indeed outstanding possible he most comprehensive half back display in a British final of any kind for some time. however i think we are not giving moon his fair dues, it was his towering kick which set up McGuire first and his jink and pass that put Briscoe in. moon is developing into a fine halfback (he was originally a half don't forget) he is more of a running threat, but that's no bad thing, and he does possess a huge bomb kicking game, more so than anyone of our recent halfbacks. A good off season prepairing for this role and providing him and Myler click, then i think we will be ok, different but ok.

Whilst I see that point I think you could argue that McGuire came into this GF with some questioning if he could step up to lead in Sinfield's absence in a final. Along with Burrow only getting on near the end then he didn't have the same experience around him and those other members of the golden trio.

Both were great performances though and quite tricky to compare them as previously pointed out they're very different performances. McGuire coming up with a crucial try saver in defence I think helps swing it his way, whilst Cas were poor on the night if they'd have gotten onto the scoreboard at that time several minutes before HT it could've really settled them down.

i was in that bar when the video was taken and it was pure comedy gold


(the message was clearly intended to hit home out in hillbilly country too according to the players)

Without any assistance from Moon????? Which game did you watch???

Moon had little impact on the control of the game, the control of the pace, his major contribution was a forward pass for Briscoe's try.

Quite harsh to firstly single out the pass alone (whilst it was forward) in his work for that try and secondly let's not forget the kick he put in to set up McGuire's first.

1. The GF. This is a no brainer the whole pre-match build up ,Team performance lead by Mags/Brian Mcs tactics & post game celebrations.
2.Jack Walker./Mc.D post match v Hull/GF & proving us doubters wrong yet again.
3.Sending Mags/Burrow out on a high but also proving we could win the big one without JP & Sinfield.
4.Cas v ST's.
5.Tonga in the World Cup.

1. Matt Parcel being such a great success and crowd favourite. I think Mr Segeyaro did us a favour.

2. Finally being able to see Liam Sutcliffe find his true playing position at 4. Never rated him up till then.

3. Our annual trip to OT with my 2 grown up grandsons and 19 others, mainly Trinity and Cas supporters. Being told all the way there that we were going to get hammered and had no chance. The return trip was wonderful.

4. Seeing DM and RB lifting the trophy together. 2 greats of the game.

5. Seeing B.Mc. So emotional about the Rhinos and how they had turned it around from 2016.

6. Stevie ward turning up for the GF after the dislocated shoulder the week before.

Sorry, can't count

Don't worry. You've managed six points, rather like Castleford 'Totally reinvented the very phrase 'Attacking Rugby'' Tigers managed in the Grand Final.