Sat on coach in traffic with the horrible feeling of losing a final for the 1st time in 3 years + it ain't nice but well done Leeds for doing the business.Best team won.

Imagine doing it five times in a row.

Chin up though, you should be proud of the club's achievements this season and this ground breaking trip to the Grand Final won't be your last. In Australia they used to say you have to lose one to win one. Warrington will return wiser and more streetwise next year.

Oh dear

Best wishes etc..

Hasn't worked out for saints though has it in recent times.

Although with tony Smith in charge I tend to agree with you can see wire getting back to old Trafford and going one better next year.
Cracking coach and summed up the positive side of our sport with how he spoke after the game and congratulating the Leeds players.

Hard lines tonight. Was a good game could have gone either way

We have enough personal trainer's in our team, couldn't one of them give Briers some motivation in the gym so he wasn't a complete liability in defense... Ablett try was his fault for initially giving away a penalty, with lazy attempt at tackle, and then not being able to slow ablett down whatsoever... And Joel didn't trust briers to tackle ablett fo have hall space to score... Nevermind that he seems to.lack the fitness to get back the ten half the time.

Yeah and still lose to the Rhinos. Coming back wiser and more streetwise sure helped the Saints this last 5 years!

Thanks mate

We were the architects of our own down fall - dropped the ball too much & too many penalties. Agree that the best team won

Much as it pains me to say it, I don't think any Wire fan can seriously argue against the fact that the better team won tonight.
Let's hope we get back there next year.

Try being e and bottom of the league,,,,, then you can be gutted!

Unlucky tonight

Despite losing 5 on the trot, we have managed to be superleague champion 5 times as well. So its not always been doom and gloom, we have a successful superleague history, whilst most teams like yourselves don't have anything to savour.

tbh, not as gutted as I thought Iwould be. Maybe when the loss sinks in and think of what it would have meant being champions for the year, playing the World club challenge and doing the double etc. As the game went on and we were forcing passes, knock ons, all the penalties conceded especially on our line I thought it wasn't going to be our night. Leeds played really well and at times played the offload game like we have become known for.

Alright we can't win every final we are in, we have won the last three, all the good teams since super league began can't win them all, ie. Leeds, Bulls, Saints and Wigan. The players will be down for a while but we have been there now and experienced the final, not the result we wanted but it is another milestone for our team.

Overall a good season, winning the cup again and coming second and runners up in the GF, a few years ago we could only dream of being in that position.

really good post

Well said - disappointed, but couldn't agree more

Gutted.........sums it up
Thought this was our year.
The team will be too old next year.

Was Westwood fit?

Joel has gotta be Australia's slowest 3/4.

What really p------ me off is the Game needed us to win

Champions from 5th..... Sorry Yorkshire but its a joke.

Did n't fancy our chances against Melbourne anyway.

Here's to next year and a season of meaningless weekly rounds.

We'll we are back to back champions (again) and the most successful team ever in Super League so we sort of do!

Think he meant Wire!!!!

58 years and counting. wow that must hurt. I remember the pain before 2004. I think the experience will do you good and I can see a wire win in the next few years provided Mr Moran keeps his cheque book open (and the accountant stays on top of his job)

Briers went missing, as did Westwood. When push came to shove, your "big guns" went missing, like ours did last week

You certainly are, was refering to Warrington who have yet to achieve a successful superleague history, they tried there best though.

Cheers pal you quite clearly needed to explain who exactly you were insulting.
because as Leeds and Warrington have managed to clean up all the big trophies between them over the last four years (bar wigans one Cup win) its really not a great argument you are trying to get across.

Totally agree about Briers going awol but can say that about half of the team if not more + Myler our best player by a country mile but overall the team have had a fantastic season + the supporters should be very proud.

Ah - you'll be one of those classy and not arrogant at all Leeds fans that we all love, eh?

Not so much gutted about the result, rather I'm disappointed. Leeds are a champion team when it comes to playoff/grand final rugby, they have been there and done it so many times.

However, I am gutted about the whole Grand Final experience. Get in there early, to take in any atmosphere/entertainment, and find that whilst I had a pretty amazing seat with an incredible view behind the sticks there was stuff all to keep me 'entertained' except from some bird dangling from a big balloon for 5 minutes just before the teams came out.
Then the drunken cretins arrived. The drunken cretins who thought it was fabulous fun to burst balloons right next to the ears of the people in front of them. The drunken cretins who only had one volume, VERY LOUD, and couldn't string a sentence together without filling it with copious quantities of F and C words. The drunken cretins who managed to get their ale to their seat and managed to pour a fair bit of it over me (pretty certain it was deliberate). The drunken cretins who weren't Leeds or Wire fans (though I'm pretty certain that they did have Yorkshire accents). Fortunately the drunken cretins disappeared just before half time, and never came back

(I suspect they were some of the ones ejected).
Then, at the end, disappointed as I was I felt it was right to stay and applaud my own team and then wait until Leeds received the trophy and applaud that too. But after the Leeds fans in front of me could only stick the Vs up at the Wire players whilst screaming at them to Eff off you losers I thought why bother and left.
I would say that the seats around me, in front and behind, would have been premium seats to sell to fans of the finalists, but the RFL obviously feel differently, I won't be buying tickets direct from the RFL in future!

One of those that see's my team winning trophies every year, yeah that'll be me!

One of those that see's my team winning trophies every year, yeah that'll be me!