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When Hanley speaks, people listen. Or they should.

Yep well he finished 8th out of 13 on Dancing On Ice so you can't always be the best now can you.

Sadly it's true.

Just look at the remonstrations of 'Brian' on the other thread defending McDermott.....even though we have been crap enough to suffer massacres for the first 30 mins (Warrington) if not the whole match (Saints and Wigan).... and also dire enough to lose pathetically devoid of any ideas against Bradford, Leeds can still finish in the top 5, if not top 4. Ugghh.

Hi Swiftcorn

Don't say his name too many times. He appears and talks absolute b0ll0cks with Baby Oil in one hand and his Hampton in the other!

Noooooooo!!!

It can't be. Have we morphed into one ? I love Senior I do, honest. Let's bring him back: he will the answer to all of our problems and make Leeds great worthy champions again in 2012.

Swift Keithcorn doesn't like Senior!


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I bumped into Hanley a few years ago in a club. It was late on, I had had a few of course, and he was just relaxing with the company of a huge bodyguard/friend type. I was star struck, to an extent. I wandered over and struck up conversation (probably came across as a bit of a-tit, surprise-surprise). He's not someone I would expect to bump into at silly-o-clock in the morning. But he was humbling, entertaining and came across as a good lad. I know people who have mentioned in business terms getting their fingers burnt with adventures with Hanley, but I'll go with my gut on this.

That's better but next time throw in a "hall to centre".

Swiftcorn doesn't like anyone. Especially not Swiftcorn.

This is starting to annoy me now.

You can’t compare ESL with NRL until both are on a level footing. Amateur RL in Oz gets literally millions of $AUD pumped into each year. Their U11’s have full time professional coaches.

There would need to be either a massive investment (from somewhere) into amateur clubs in the UK or for the Australian drinking/gambling culture to completely change before you can compare apples with apples.