You'd rather have the earnest, repetitive soundbites of a "media-friendly" coach like Richard Marshall? ...Each to his own, McDermott has a clear dislike of journalistic cliches and that makes for a more interesting interview, he doesn't play the media-cliche game and he's not an easy interview as a result.

The question about "pressure" was an inane one and was rightly treated as such. There isn't really an interesting answer to that quetion (and the interviewer asked it twice!) I mean McDermott could have just trotted out the approved answers such as taking every game as it comes and that sort of rubbish and we'd all have been bored to tears.

He can come across a bit y at times but when you want your players to be mean and lean then no need to look passed the boss for an example.
Could be the most shrewd coaching appointment made in the Championship ever, having a bloke like that who has done it at the highest level both as player and coach who not only can get Fev to SL but also keep them there if they do go up.
Short, medium and longer term box ticked in a crucial area with no having to start again.

Yes featherstone did look like a well oiled machine on monday and i watched them against wakefield and they look very good physically too. As for mcdermott i do tend to like people who go against the grain but not for the hell of it and he does seem like someone who could pick a fight in a empty room. Most ex and current military i have ever known are very pro establishment i wonder if brian is anti monarchy he would go up in my estimation if he was.

God Save The Queen.

Pro Monarchy yes, pro establishment not really. It sort of comes from the fact that when you attest you swear loyalty to the Queen (not the Government) (retired Military, served the Queen for 26 years and proud to have done so)

Agreed. I served 14 years in the Infantry. Pass the Port please

We had the ladies didn’t pour their own as well