Everyone should stop there moaning , we are in a dip of form and are still nearly winning games. Looked as though we turned a corner against wigan in the second half, started supporting and off loading more. Bluey has won the WCC has taken us to joint top of the league and a CC Cup Semi. I remember when Leeds fans would have killed for this , the reason he should not got any stick is that he clearly doesn',t deserve it. Get a grip all you moaners we could be Hull and then life would be .

Luckily for you there's nothing in the AUP to stop a poster contributing to a thread they clearly don't understand.

I don't think the thread is about giving Mc Clennan stick.
It is posing the question why did Smith get so much stick for a similar run of results last season?

The cult of personality. Smith projects a degree of unease in front of the media thereby losing rapport with the Leeds fans.

Bluey comes across pretty well earning our fans undying love

Just nuts eh?

There were some encouraging comments from McClennan regarding there being too much "lateral" movement from Leeds in the closing stages when a more direct approach was required. This problem predates McClennan's tenure, btw.

Your initial point was why such leeway for bluey? - My answer was that we can still win every competition this year and untill that changes why should he get stick.

An ability that protected Graham Murray very well late in his tenure.

a point a few of us picked up on over a beer at the celtic game this year!

I've thought about this over the last 24 hours and I've come up with the reason Bluey is getting more support than Smith over a similar run.

It's all down to the shape of his head. Bluey's head is almost rugby ball shaped, thus leading to people believing that he has a "rugby brain". Smith has a head shaped like a tennis ball, so he's considered to have a "tennis brain".

Obviously a "rugby brain" is significantly more use to a rugby coach than a "tennis brain", and so people trust Bluey more than Smith.

It's easy when you think about it..............

I think that it 'helps' Bluey in some way when the fans are now stating to accept that we are going to lose more games than we used to. We're talking of going into the Catalans game (a team that finished bottom three years ago) next week as underdogs and justifiably so.

At the end of last season Tony Smith said that the team that wins the 2008 championship could well lose ten games in the season - I think most of us are probably starting to realise that now.