Poor year this year, yet they were still only 80 minutes away from OT.



He won 2 Grand Finals and a World Club Challenge still very impressive for a three year reign.

They were but they never looked anywhere near winning that game. 3 GFs on the trot to newt is a decline. Its not even that tbh, as a 'rugby' team they dont look the same class they had a few years ago and this is down to the coach.

I cant believe Leeds wanted to replace Bluey (a bloke who has won stuff as coach of Leeds even with an inherited squad) with a bloke who is clueless at best and whose claim to fame was he wasn't good enough to coach Harlequins.



Macdermott will be given the @rse by Leeds as soon as NQld's Neil Henry is ready to come over

Sorry, I thought you were talking about the Bulls post-2005. Sounded like Groundhog day, was so familiar...

haha.

And Baz you did nothing but slate McLennan not so long ago, you troll you

In terms of his previous record, he certainly isn't in the same league as previous coaches Leeds have had in the recent past.



I'm not a McDermott fan, thought he had turned Harlequins into a low-confidence, poor quality side despite the presence of some good quality players. Yes, he had not much money and yes, he had to throw young players in at the deep end, but even taking that into account I think he did a pretty shoddy job. I will be geniunely interested to see how this goes now that he's got a higher quality team available.



But if I was a Leeds fan, I'd be nervous.

You seem to enjoy writing rubbish. How can coaching Quins for four years be interpreted as 'not good enough to coach Quins'? And who says Leeds wanted to replace him? Hetherington is quoted as saying he wanted him to stay. No doubt you are closer to Leeds's real intentions than the chairman of the club.

Hes a leeds fan really.

I'm not backing him now!!



It just seems a stupid decision.





Its like not being able to win the Melbourne cup with a very average racehorse because its getting slower and slower... so you buy a donkey

Player power wins again

Bradford have sunk, hit rock bottom and turned their ship into a submarine





Leeds signings so far aren't too impressive though. I'd be getting that sinking feeling if I was a Leeds fan.

Yes, he built those title-winning squads and everything about them from scratch all by himself of course.



Even the most casual observer can see Leeds have gone from playing genuinely brilliant RL at times to a team of flat-track bullies who get off on hassling officials and complaining about every decision going against them. Fingers crossed they can get back to being a great RL side rather than a team of whiney bitches.





I think you'll find he won stuff [ibecause[/i he inherited that squad. A couple of years on and his coaching has taken hold and Leeds won...nothing. And never looked like doing.