Luckily for him Dean Lances' record will take some beating!

yeah why not, and that loser in charge of recruitment along with him

Personally I think he should have stepped down after the Hull game. It was obvious how they matched us in the 2nd half that it was going to be all down hill from there. At least he could have gone out on top unbeaten and maybe then taken the vacant Brisbane job.

Despite my criticism in the column this week, I’m going to reluctantly say no. If we lose against Salford then the only way is up surely?

Leeds currently find themselves alongside Saints and Huddersfield IMO, with Warrington and Wigan showing the way. If you dont perform on the day you'll get beat these days.

You must give Mcdermott the ful season.

I actually put Huddersfield in that top category. Nathan Brown is the best coach in the league IMO and knows how to get the best out of that team. Anyway, all this talk about getting rid of a coach who has had to do a job missing several key players (yes, I appreciate that some of it is down to game plan ect.) after just 5 games is ridiculous! At this moment in time I believe we have the same record as this time last year, and look how close we got then. Some people need to reel themselves in and get a grip IMO. And also personel wise there are 4 or 5 teams that are pretty similar this year, so even if we don't win anything so what! It's sport! There are 13 other teams trying to reach the same goal as us. Just because we are Leeds it doesn't give us the Devine right to win every year.

Bang on! Great post

I do wonder how Brian McDermott fairs against Royce Simmons, Rob Powell and Mick Potter who are also at new clubs this term. Whilst it isn’t Leeds divine right to win it every year – It should be the fans divine right to express an opinion. The only person that needs to get a grip is Brian McDermott and not the fans.

I think that the concerns that have been expressed by people on here are genuine and are not the closed minded opinions that you make out they are. These opinions have been shaped over much longer than the four super league games that Brian McDermott has been in charge. In the pre-season everyone was willing to give him a chance and I’m afraid that each game Leeds loses hereon in will be another nail in the coffin of McDermott’s coaching career.

Is that the preseason where we crushed the 2 teams we played? Only idiotic morons would think about canning a coach when he hasn't even had time to set his stall out. I bet if Wigan had lost Sam, Leuluai, Joel, 3 props at once and Hansen they would have struggled slightly too and I doubt they would have drawn against Saints. The other Saints would have murdered them in the WCC too. At the weekend we will be without 4 props and a LF. How exactly can you plan for that as a coach. In Peacock and Kylie you are down by 250m extra go forward to start with. Then you have players doing extra defensive work than they are used to and this brings extra fatigue where tackles are then missed and breaks occur. You have an inexperienced right hand side that has maybe 30 or so games between them yet they are expected to be superstars. They look good with ball in hand but it takes time for them to settle in defensively.

There's too many factors going on at the moment to just blame it on the coaching staff. Ask me in November what I thought about how McDermott but until then it's unfair to pass judgement.

Bang on J ,some of the reaction to losing a couple of games is way OTT.
Of course everyone has a right to their opinions and we all feel it when we lose but suggesting the Coaches should be ditched ,the Season is over and GH has taken the cheap option after 4wks is ridiculous FFs.

What he said