LEEDS RHINOS collected their third trophy of the season on the night three of their players played their last game for the club.

Kevin Sinfield, Jamie Peacock and Kylie Leuluai all bowed out in style as Leeds defeated Wigan 22-20 in Saturday’s pulsating grand final at Old Trafford.

The Rhinos were 16-6 up at half-time, but two quick tries from Wigan at the start of the second half made the 2015 final one which will linger in the memory for a long time.

Leeds’s end-of-season heroics have been typified by Peacock. The 37-year-old prop-forward has looked out on his feet at times in the final few games, but he’s always managed to find a second wind to pull himself and his side through.

Similarly, the Leeds team as a whole have pushed on and kept going right until the end, collecting the League Leaders Shield with a last-second try against Huddersfield, and securing narrow wins in both their semi-final against St Helens and in the final itself.

Wigan led 20-16 with an hour gone, and looked to be heading to victory as the Leeds pack appeared fatigued. However, fresh legs, and indeed a fresh face, from the bench in the shape of 20-year-old forward Josh Walters breathed new life into the Rhinos when he crossed for four points after good work from Ryan Hall.

Sinfield’s conversion gave them a two-point lead which they didn’t relinquish, and it was fitting that the winning points would come from his boot as their captain and all-time top points-scorer ends his playing career at the club.

Danny McGuire, who was awarded the Harry Sunderland Trophy as man of the match, commented on how important Sinfield, Peacock, and Leuluai have been to the club and how they’ll be missed.

“All three are irreplaceable,” said the half-back.

“These three guys are not going to be replaced, it’s important to point that out. It’s about starting afresh and people coming in to take their own shirts, start their own chapters and their own careers.

“Liam Sutcliffe’s already been in and around the team and although he’ll have massive boots to fill in the shape of Kevin’s, he’s a young lad who has a massive future in and around the game.”

McGuire will be important to the side if they’re going to continue their success in 2016, as will his experienced half-back partner Rob Burrow and Man of Steel Zak Hardaker, but for now all players involved will be enjoying their great treble success of 2015.