Although I am absolutely gutted, I am also imensly proud of what the team has achieved this year:

2nd in the table
Challenge cup winners
Under 20's champions
grand finalists

Considering we were e not so long ago, we should all thank the lord that we have Tony Smith as our coach

This, 100x over.

Also proud of our fans for the support given and the numbers who stayed behind to clap both teams afterwards. Chin up lads, our time will come. Keep the faith.

Been the most entertaining team to watch over most of the season as well.

The best team in the country gets robbed by a psychotically unfair and ludicrous "championship" system once again. RL takes another right good kicking to it's credibility tonight, and I get to be the butt of jokes from my many RU-supporting colleagues for another week. Hard lines and commiserations to your many, many proper and decent fans.

Remember we are champions and WCC and got to the cup final. It doesn't make a mockery of SL it's just player management.

Those who think it makes a mockery of the game simply don get it, or its sour grapes.

Well done wire. All the best for next season.

As a very happy Leeds fan I would like to thank Wire for the best Grand Final yet!!!

I thought it would be a close one but I've never been so nervous as I was tonight.

Don't be downhearted Wire fans, this will be the first of many Grand Finals in the coming years I'm sure.

This was a fantastic advert for Rugby League and if Leeds aren't gonna win it next year I'll be backing you guys hands down. I think this is the last year for us and the next couple of years will be between you, wigan and saints.

P.S I would swap Grand Final for Challenge Cup would you lol!!!

You're a champion team and are masters of exploiting the current playoff/league format to it's fullest - no sour grapes from me I assure you. My beef is with the RL and a preposterous system that makes us all spend big chunks of money to have to turn up and watch 27 games every year that ultimately count for absolutely jack all. You can't tell me that you think that the Super League title is decided in anything like a fair and proper manner in it's current format, surely?

not as gutted as I thought I would be, I quite happily stayed and applauded the Leeds team and Sinfield on his acceptance speech.

for us maybe it is just a case of one step at a time......maybe we do have to be in one to win one....

either way I am cheered up by many bitter Saints and Wigan fans who think What we have achieved over the last four seasons is something to laugh at...........

Well done Wires and Well done Leeds.....

You should be proud. Hill, especially was immense for you tonight.

Overall I thought the best team on the day won, just like in the cup final.

I don't particularly like the play off format as it is, however it's a much better option for the game than first past the post. To say the achievement is any less because of finishing 5th is nonsense.

Until another side from outside the top 3 gets close to winning a grand final ill struggle to believe that it isn't just an incredibly good performance from a special group of players

This pretty much sums it up for me.

I've no problem seeing Leeds win trophies with some of the players they've brought through.

All in all a great final and despite what my Saints supporting friends are saying I know any one of them would swap places with us.

If winning the Challenge cup, doing a double over Wigan, beating Saints away in a semi and losing a Grand final is a bad season.... I'll happily take it every year.

I also thought Richie Myler was outstanding for Warrington.

Great credit to those fans near the tunnel who stayed behind and gave their team a massive ovation on the way off the pitch.

What a load of rubbish, why is it unfair?

A team winning it from fifth (twice) gives the play offs credibility in my opinion. If the team that finished first won the Grand Final every year there would be no point in having it.

No one wins the Super League title in September. Credit where it's due to Leeds for proving that time and time again.

Quote ="Tony Soprano"What a load of rubbish, why is it unfair?'" www.loverugbyleague.com/blogpost ... um=twitter Perhaps 'unfair' is not the correct word, as all teams know how the system works. But to suggest that the current play-off system is anything short of dramatically flawed would be ridiculous. I can't imagine it is pleasant for Leeds fans to watch their team be achingly mediocre all year, even if they know they'll come good in the end.

Quote ="Tony Soprano"What a load of rubbish, why is it unfair?'" www.loverugbyleague.com/blogpost ... um=twitter Perhaps 'unfair' is not the correct word, as all teams know how the system works. But to suggest that the current play-off system is anything short of dramatically flawed would be ridiculous. I can't imagine it is pleasant for Leeds fans to watch their team be achingly mediocre all year, even if they know they'll come good in the end.

Winning it once from 5th could be considered slightly fortunate I guess, and playing off the back of a bit of momentum at the end of the season. Winning it twice from 5th is the sign of a truly great side.

We'd all like a few more wins in the regular season, obviously. But it does amuse me watching teams playing out of their skins to beat us during the season, because they want to knock the champions off their perch. This is what the team have to contend with week in week out and that's just one of the reasons we have our fair share of disappointments in the 27 rounds. But champion sides consistently beat the best sides in the biggest games, not in round 4 or 5 or whatever other round you care to mention.

Having said that, our run of success won't last forever and someone will beat us at Old Trafford or before sooner or later. But until then there is no denying that this is a special team.

You play the system that's put in front of you at the beginning of the campaign. Leeds played it best and Leeds won.

The system is wrong, but that's another debate. If the system had been different then Leeds (and Warrington, and Wigan) would have played it differently throughout the year.

this leeds side has won it from 1st twice ,from 2nd twice ,from 5th twice.give this group a bit of credit

How can you say this? Wigan had the best defence and best attack in the league?

I fully agree with this. If Warrington were to win the game he would have got the Harry Sunderland trophy! Was all over the place in attack and defence and I hope he builds on this performance and carries it on for England in the future!

Seems to be maturing into a belting half back

I am not, nor was I ever, gutted or disappointed about the loss last night. It was a good game and I am just happy to have finally got to old trafford. Even being unable to play at our best because of excellent leeds tactics, we still stayed in the game right the way through. We will come back next even stronger if that is possible at this point. Myler was unbelievable last night. Over the years it been first game and out, then next round and out, then gf eliminator and out, this year we made this final, the next step is a win. CC winner, 2nd in the table, and a gf appearance aint too shabby for me.

Disappointed but not gutted. I'd have been devastated if we'd have lost by 1 point or got annihilated. Inexperience showed, but we'll be back up there. Fair play to Leeds, they were the better side. Just goes to show that you can do naff all for 27 rounds of regular season play, and then just get yourself up for 3 games in the playoffs. A very proud Wire fan here, it's been a tremendous season and hopefully more to come.

Please sign a new contract Tony, please!

Why is finishing fifth doing 'naff all' in the regular season of play? They were better than 9 of the teams in the league and finished well within the play off limits - 5/8? We finished just ONE loss behind third place. We weren't better than 4/14 teams, which is why we didn't win the league, and didn't deserve to. However, we won the Championship by being better than 7/8 teams - and that we did deserve. I do wonder, if we finished 4th and still won what people would say the play off system needed to be changed to, then.

Anyway, congratulations Wire on a fantastic season. I loved the game and was terrified about it going either way until the last few minutes. People underestimate how pressure affects a game, and Leeds had the invaluable experience to pull them through it - but Wire will be back up there, and with that experience who knows what you're capable of? Also, thank you for all the great fans I met and spoke to. If we'd lost to you I wouldn't have been devatasted like I would if we'd lost to Wigan - you and your fans deserve it.