Dougy wrote:
You can't honestly believe that Leeds tried their best in every game? Surely they would have finished top if they had.
Not for the first time you've demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of sport generally and the Leeds club in particular. You appear totally ignorant of the amount of pressure the players were under during that disastrous midseason spell, the amount of abuse McDermott was, once again, getting, the discussions being had at the top of the club as to how to solve it, the repeated player heart to heart meetings discussing how to turn around the disastrous form.
You also completely ignore the fact that that hellish run totally ****ed up any thoughts Leeds might have had of gaming the system in their favour just as Wigan and Warrington did. Because it meant, once again, that Sinfield and Peacock just couldn't be rested because, unlike Shaun Wane, McDermott couldn't risk anything like that in any game as playoff qualification was constantly on the line.
Claiming in any way that anyone at Leeds planned or enjoyed the poor run, aimed to finish fifth or was pleased in any way with what happened in the regular season is typical Pie eating delusion. But then a fair proportion of your support base appears to have become completely unhinged in recent times so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised.
