[Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino]

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:08 am  

FearTheVee wrote:

Not sure about that - I certainly wouldn't swap squads, regardless of who was coaching them.

Now your just being mean.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:34 am  

The squad of players we currently have should be capable of much better performances. I don't expect Leeds to win every game, but I do expect to see a performance.

I made excuses for Mac whilst he was at Quins - he didn't have the players, etc.. He's had the excuse at Leeds of introducing new structures (not sure I understand what the attacking or defence structures are yet though) and needing time to bed those in. Surely we should be seeing some week on week improvement by now. Whilst I'd love to see him succeed, I don't see it happening.

Coaches do make a difference, when Smith went to Wire King was being booed by his own fans - Briers was said to be past it and set for Barrow. Smith seems to have revitalised both those players. Leeds deserve much better from their coaching team. I fear for the development of our younger squad members.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:33 am  

FearTheVee wrote:

Not sure about that - I certainly wouldn't swap squads, regardless of who was coaching them.

Hard to argue with you on this season's showings but a lot of this squad are the same players that have won grand finals. I know that they're on the down slope a lot of them, but not as bad as 8th, not a chance! I think that you have regressed slightly over the last 2 years, but at least you are hanging in there with the big boys. This is something that we should still be doing (as we did last season), but we're not.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:53 am  

With this squad and a different coach I would not expect to be at the top, but we should be hanging on in there with saints

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:56 am  

Ferdy wrote:

With this squad and a different coach I would not expect to be at the top, but we should be hanging on in there with saints

I feel like I am following you around, so apologies if you also get that same impression.

You are right, we would be nowhere near top. I think you picked the wrong team for hanging on in there with. Saints squad is far better than ours. Huddersfield on the other hand we should be hanging on in there with, that's the bigger worry for how far we have gone backwards.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:28 pm  

RhinoLaney wrote:

Thinking about the coaches that are available at the moment, Noble is the only name that stands out.

Can't see him coming if I'm honest but what Noble has done in the past against us is cracking. Why can't we get someone like him?

You don't want Noble, believe me.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:29 pm  

Ovavoo wrote:

You don't want Noble, believe me.

I believe you.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:46 pm  

Rogues Gallery wrote:

As I've said on the other thread, the major failure has been Hetheringtons recruitment and
mis-management of the Leeds youth systems for the last five years.

If you repeat it enough, somebody might believe you.

Everyone else sees winning 3 championships on the trot with a team of players who came through they youth system as anything but a failure of recruitment and youth systems.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:31 pm  

How silly does this thread look now?

The OP must be hiding in a dark room somewhere cringing with embarassment.

Re: For the live of God,Allah or whoever-McDermott GO!!! : Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:39 pm  

Probably my most extream anti-Brian Mcdermott column

Probably my most extream anti-Brian Mcdermott column