How we didn't win a trophy (other than the hubcap) in 2012 will always confuse me. I think we had some unlucky injuries for the Leeds PO SF (Tomkins and McIlorum) and the only scored off a 100m intercept try. Richards missed a touchline kick to win it and then IIRC Murphy dropped a high kick and they got a penalty to win.
In the CC SF we collapsed in the first half with Tomkins getting loads of abuse (dropped a couple of bombs I think) but then we came back at them until they scored a try from an obvious knock on. Just wasn't our year in the big games.
The same happened to Wire the year before.
Coaches then started realising the regular season meant nothing and you just had to turn up for the big games.