Re: Have Leeds lost hunger, as a club? : Fri Aug 11, 2023 1:52 pm  

cheekydiddles wrote:

The corporate £££ is king

I rarely come on here anymore, you either get shot down by the fans who believe everything that is said by the club, or in most cases you’re not able to speak because you are shouted down. Leeds are a club in crisis. I June I spoke to one director telling him that with Smith as coach we are going nowhere, just after we had lost to the bottom two teams, one of those teams had lost 14 games on the bounce. I said Smith is way out of his depth. He replied, he totally agreed and that they were on with it.
In August I said to GH that Smith should be sacked, his teams when playing have no idea, they play as a bunch of individuals not as a team, GH replied we have a coach, it’s not his fault the team are playing like this.
Since then how many players who were out of contract at the end of the season were going to have their contracts renewed. They have cleared out players who they believe are not part of the coaches plans. What is happening I have no idea,
I see the front 3 for Wigan next season are all ex Leeds players. We have given an extension of one year to a winger, who is injured most of the time I can’t remember his name. We are letting young players leave to Hull and Wigan, what happened with Cruise Leeming, probably one of our better players.
The only way out of this is to employ a Director of Rugby, a person who is up to date with players as opposed to GH and his old fashioned views.
In addition Someone who has the money has either got to buy either GH shares in the company or Caddick shares, before we end up with a great stadium but a crap team. The only person with this wealth who I know is the Chairman ( I may be wrong here) the chap who owns the equity release firm in Leeds, I believe it’s age partnership. Someone with money and clout needs to get on the board .
I’ve no idea what team we will have next season, I’ve stopped going this season, I am so downbeat with this whole situation I am totally vexed off. No other football club or rugby club would put up with this rubbish that is being played on the park. Smith sees things that no other person does, his back room team, full of has beens, why we can’t get DM as a support coach I don’t know.

Re: Have Leeds lost hunger, as a club? : Fri Aug 11, 2023 3:11 pm  

you are right in so much as the cheerleaders will be along soon.
I'm with you all the way

Re: Have Leeds lost hunger, as a club? : Fri Aug 11, 2023 3:12 pm  

Leeming was a good player for us but there were flaws to his game. He wasn't helping the ball get out to the outside backs (and it speaks volumes that a 20 year old loose forward was able to do a better job in this respect), and Wane wouldn't pick him for England because of his soft defence.

For me the big issue with Leeming leaving was that the club didn't do anything to fill his place in the squad closer to the time, relatively early in the season. Perhaps the right players weren't around, and perhaps Smith and GH felt that we had adequate players in place to play at hooker to deal with his absence. But at this point of the season it is another quality player we can't count on, which after Austin's departure and Myler's injury (amongst others) further undermines our play-off chances.

Re: Have Leeds lost hunger, as a club? : Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:05 pm  

Whole league of full of ex Leeds players, so what if Wigan have three of them, sure I read there’s 17 of them playing in CC final. Should we be fuming about that too?

Re: Have Leeds lost hunger, as a club? : Fri Aug 11, 2023 5:14 pm  

leedsbarmyarmy wrote:

Whole league of full of ex Leeds players, so what if Wigan have three of them, sure I read there’s 17 of them playing in CC final. Should we be fuming about that too?

There is lots of poop on here too.

Re: Have Leeds lost hunger, as a club? : Sat Aug 12, 2023 5:40 am  

Looking forward to the CC final I think it's refreshing to see 2 different clubs taking part. I know some on here have decried the quality of the overall competition but while that may be true it should not detract from Leigh or HKR achievements and good luck to them both and their fans who will be enjoying their weekend at Wembley.

Re: Have Leeds lost hunger, as a club? : Sat Aug 12, 2023 5:58 am  

leedsbarmyarmy wrote:

Whole league of full of ex Leeds players, so what if Wigan have three of them, sure I read there’s 17 of them playing in CC final. Should we be fuming about that too?

That includes such as Mags and Delaney , but there again they may still be better than some of the trash we have

Re: Have Leeds lost hunger, as a club? : Sat Aug 12, 2023 7:38 am  

First time in years I am really looking forward to watch the final.

Re: Have Leeds lost hunger, as a club? : Sat Aug 12, 2023 8:34 am  

Backwoodsman wrote:

First time in years I am really looking forward to watch the final.

Me too.
It's boring seeing the same teams there every year.
Good luck to both.
Hoping HKR do it to put a bit of a shine on a dreadful season for Yorkshire clubs.

Re: Have Leeds lost hunger, as a club? : Sat Aug 12, 2023 9:10 am  

Yep looking forwards to the game. It’s lovely to see two new teams and not the usual suspects