Neither team were great with the ball, but Leeds were outstanding in every other area of the game.

Champion performance from Leeds, their fans are so lucky to support such a successful team.

Yes I know it was Cas's first G.F. & yes Leeds big game experience came to the fore, but that performance was awful.

It's said you have to experience losing one before you win one, & I'm sure Cas fans can feel rightly proud of their clubs journey this year. But the nature of that defeat coupled with the "he who shall not be named" fiasco, well, they must be gutted.

Collectively worst performance I've seen from Cas this year,don't think Leeds had to play particularly well to win that game convincingly,worst Grand Final I've seen.

Glad i didnt bother watching it

Any team in SL and probably even a couple of Championship teams would have beaten Cas tonight. It was like the abject misery of the Millward teams.

I'm not a Cas fan, but it is a depressing loss all the same
Not that I'm down on Leeds either, Cas carried the league all season only to fail in the final, that's their cock-up.
Its depressing because its a win for dull, albeit Cas weren't at the races at all, Leeds can only beat what's put in front of them so its hardly their fault, but it is a blow to the movement towards putting some excitement back in to the game.

That makes it look even worse when you know he has to face some real quality in Cooper Cronk and Shaun Johnson.

Congratulations Leeds, well deserved Champions 2017

Great game by Leeds. Danny Maguire proved you can't buy experience. I'll be glad Saints are playing Hull KR with him in it next year, because he's been our downfall far too many times, and Leeds will surely struggle to replace him and Burrow for a while.

Looks like Cas used up their get-out-of-jail-free card last week in the semi. A pity they couldn't perform the way they've done previously, but even if Saints hadn't managed to self-destruct in the final 90 seconds last week, we'd have struggled to contain a Leeds/Maguire performance like that at our best.

Gale looked like he has looked for the previous 10 years- anonymous. Being saying all year one good season doesn't make a legend.
Being the best team all year means sweet FA- because in reality no one cares. Cas have failed to cut it when it mattered in the games that matter. Sadly That's what they will be remembered for this season.

Albert Goldthorpe winner 3 years in a row. Hardly had 1 good season has he. We finished top of the league for the first time in our history. We were dreadful tonight, we will be back. Hopefully with a new drug free full back.

Champion team won tonight and showed there experience. Cas did what me and a lot of people expected. I will never understand how the bookies had them as favourites, easy money for the Leeds win.
However well done Cas for all you have achieved this season, may your new giant shield protect you from the chockers tag you'll be given for the foreseeable future.

I'm not the naughty 1 pal.

Watched it in a west hull hostelry and most wanted a Cas win.I must admit I thought Cas would win it but they didn't play the style of rugby they had all season.Leeds after the first 10 minutes played very well with and without the ball . Mcguire kicked well and leeds pack were on front foot all night.Ablett and Jjb did a lot of disrupting and Leeds did what Leeds do.They won in the rain at old Trafford again.No one should begrudge them on that 80 minutes but I feel for Cas as they had been magic all season.Best thing I heard from fc fans was they would have hammered leeds and Mcguire would play 1 or 2 month for KR then go on sick leave. I said he is made of the same stuff as Ellis and a more genuine player you couldn't wish for but alas I was wrong appaeently? Glad for Burrow and Danny and the Leeds fans.Can imagine the hurt for Cas, lots of lessons and next time they will be stronger for it .

Im not sure I agree with you there, in 2015 Leeds won the treble with a highly entertaining high risk improvisational style of play, but I dont think many teams reacted in 2016 by taking more risks or allowing players more freedom

I actually dont think Cas were too bad in the first half and had us under the cosh a few times but we showed up well. IMO Cas seemed to think that they would blow us away at some point and when the realisation came that it wouldnt happen they lost the plot in the second half.

Also it seems that Leeds (as Saints and Hull already did) have finally learned to stop jamming in against Cas' block plays and shift in defence and work from the inside Hallelujah!!

I have the distinct impression now that Castleford are chokers.

Look at their record in 2017. League leaders yes. But they couldn't make the Challenge Cup Final. Then they squeaked into the Grand Final with an extra time field goal against the mighty St Helens. But they couldn't score a point against Leeds in the first half. They were only good at spilling the ball.

What a bunch of nervous nellies! They are chokers, mark my words!

A meaningless award from the people that gave Kevin Sinfield the "Golden Boot".

No one West of the Pennines bothers even looking at who has won that due to it being a fan boy award.

Meaningless yeat maybe. But you still need to have has a good season to win it.

unlike the grand final ??

Arguably.

That said, if the best team deliver their worst game for the biggest game when everyone knows the drill and has known the drill for 19 years or so then so be it.

I knew that finishing first wouldn't guarantee us side as last night I just knew it would give us the best opportunity to get there which we did. Anything can happen in finals rugby. A shame we were so turgid but it is what it is.

Well I think its all going a bit about face, nobody would argue that winning the league in a straight up most points after 28 games scenario, is a bigger achievement than winning a 6 game knockout challenge cup comp, but effectively that is what is happening to the 8's, the thing is a short d cup comp that carries far less credibility.
Well, at least I think it does, no point in asking Leeds fans that question, but for me personally Cas showed their metal all season, the GF don't mean 5h1t, but the headlines will say different.

The Grand Final means everything and I say that despite watching my team lose three of them and win none. Champions turn up when it matters. It's no good running rings around everybody all year and then going missing when it counts. The biggest thing that has cost Wires in my opinion was always game management - never slowing things down, taking an easy two points etc - and the best in Super League at that was Kevin Sinfield. Danny McGuire learned from him and ran the show while Gale just looked lost and frustrated (granted his pack didn't help him much). That was a champion performance in every sense from Leeds.

It's like Sprinter Asafa Powell, ran over 100 sub ten second 100m more than any man ever broke the world record more times than usain bolt. But never one an Olympic or world championship gold.