The Giants will be relegated to 3rd place once the Grand Final is completed.

we are minor premiers/LLS holders/league champions/league leaders/finished top

whatever you want to call it for the 2013 season, that will be part of our history forever now.

the play offs are a different competition

Although you will be disappointed with your playoff results it is good to see another club that have become genuine contenders for the SL crown. We need more of the so called lesser teams to use what Huddersfield have done as a benchmark for there own clubs.
Although as a Leeds fan these last few years have been great for our club the competition needs more teams challenging for the title. You have shown your not far off.

As you are now part of the "Top of the Pile" club. Historically:-

From 1998 to 2002 it was called the minor premiers award.
From 2003 to 2013 it is known as the League Leaders Shield.

It was devalued in the 2008 season by mostly the Wigan Fans because St Helens won the LLS for 4 consecutive years 2005-2006-2007-2008.
Suprisingely it got more value when Wigan won the LLS a few seasons later and more recently by Wire Fans.

Reality wise it should be recognised more highly as being the best team over 27 preliminary rounds which is quite an achievement in any sport.

If Warrington win the grand final for the first time get ready for the wire fans to be little your achievement in winning the LLS.

It's a paradox. If you were good enough to win the final you would have won last night. 'oh but we were played warrington we were good enough we just played the one team who have the indian sign on us'. You lost to wigan in the first game at home, a team that you apparently beat at will. So you point about beating wigan and leeds in the final holds no value when you couldn't even beat wigan at home.

You weren't good enough to be champions, and the LLS means nothing. It's not even listed in honours on the super league website.

Blah blah blah! The effort you go to to belittle our winning the LLS betrays you. It is clear that you are very upset, perhaps even outraged that little Huddersfield won a competition that every Coach, every player and every owner in Super League wanted to win.

Yes given a choice I would prefer to win the GF or the CC, but we did win one of only 3 trophies available to all teams.

that it so upsets the small minded frankly makes it all the more pleasureable so thanks for that!

Well, I think we can safely say you've had a better season than we have. One trophy to nil.

If he carries on he's going to be talking to himself. That ignore system is a fabulous thing!

Please dont quote his posts dee- the majority of us aren't listening to the drivel

I think this season we've done better than Leeds, for sure, but I'm sure a certain someone will get the chamois out and the glitter and do a good bit of turd polishing with some condescending piffle thrown in as to why that isn't the case...

leeds will win the world cup though surely?

I am gutted and pleased.
Gutted that some of our performances let us down which meant there are too many , "if's" to feel completely satisfied.

Our performance against Wire in the playoffs is an example . Where was that against Wigan and in the CC.


Pleased that we had a winning season and finished top of the league. We have a great team, coach and Chairman i just hope we can move on from this.

12 months is a long time, look what this club has achieved, compared to this time last year, what a great season.

Why do you constantly assume fans belittle the LLS because huddersfield have won it and that other teams wanted to win it? (funny how hudds were found wanting when competing for a trophy the other contenders wanted to win). It get's belittled because you constantly big it up into something it's not. If you didn't rabbit it on about quite so much you wouldn't have people trying to put you in your place.

And please don't kid yourself that every coach player and owner wanted to win it. Look at the contempt with which wigan treated it. They were 5 points clear at one point yet have literally stuck 2's up at it to make sure they are primed for the [ireal[/i prize. Wigan are one of the biggest clubs in the game, if it was a trophy that mattered they'd have slammed down the acceleraator in may and huddersfield would never have had a sniff. Instead they rested players, altered their intensity and as a result it let huddersfield in to win it.

Wigan won it last year yet have totally disreguarded it this year, doesn't that tell you anything about how much it means?

People belittle the LLS because the top clubs treat it with contempt because it's not the main prize and while ever that is the case winning it will mean f*ck all.

If you can't accept that i'm afriad you are deluded.

Cue ''you are totally jealous of us!!! what a major trophy to win, we are true champions blah blah blah'' response, which (rightly) results in people putting you in your place.

Leeds fans only judge hudds on the criteria they judge themselves. They don't give hudds special treatment, that shows respect.

Top clubs judge themselves on major trophies, and finals. Hudds and leeds have had neither, so in terms of end game the seasons are similiar (by the criteria we judge ourselves), obviously hudds have won more weekly round games and got further in the CC so on balance you would say they had a better season.

By hudds standards it's probably been an unbelievable season, after all those years of being cemented to the foot of the table.

Exactly .....that's what we have been trying to tell you and the other bridge dwellers for weeks who've been trying to belittle our achievements !!

I am desperate to win the GF to be able to say again I DO NOT GIVE A FLYING FRIG about the GF and the LLS means far far more to me as been the most consistent team over 27 tough SL rounds as opposed to being a team that can win a 4 game end of season play off.

Until we win it it will sound like sour grapes and I understand that, but I don't want to win the GF and not the league cos the league means 100% more than the GF ever will.

Just a personal thing and understand that other fans think the LLS is pointless but a competition where the 8th placed team (a team finishing below halfway) can become Champions is more pointless to me!!

So next year lets have both please and I can say again the GF is pointless!!