As a assistant coaching thought he was great. As a first team coach I thought he did ok with a poor side. Then he came back to Leeds and I thought he was next to crxp. But then he got us to the cc final and we were mm's from winning that. After that we won the grand final and now I think he is a great coach. What do I know?

Tell you what I know is that your is that you are trolling

I have consistently thought Mac to be a good coach - yes even whilst at Harlequins. Equally I have thought him to be a fairly poor performer on TV (way too enigmatic and thoughtful for today's sound bite/easy on the ear culture). Even this aspect of the job has improved considerably for Brian and some of his TV interviews towards the back end of last season were really entertaining and enlightening - albeit yuo always had a sense that at any second he might just jump up and thwack his interviewer.

I always thought that Bluey was terrible as an interviewee - even though he pretty much always said the 'right things', never really rated him as a club coach either even though results seem to suggest he was one of Leeds's best ever coaches.

Lets face it both Brians had a really good group of players.

Yes they did but they and in particular McDermott had to deal with a lot of disruption and the blooding and bringing through of a lot of relative newcomers/kids at the same time...

This season should be very interesting

Surely thats part of being a sports coach. If it was just a case of taking the best players and playing them, Im sure more people'd be able to do it

I think we may be agreeing with each other here

You've just described Brian McLennan in a nutshell there.

It'll be interesting to see how the NZ Warriors fare in the NRL now that McClennan is the coach.

How do YOU think they'll do?