The SHAMEFUL Treatment of Brian McDermott

Rhinoms – Again, I have laid out a detailed argument which discusses the performances and selections, and you have not been able to give me any specifics regarding what you don’t like. I agree, the performances have not left us much to be inspired by of late, but AGAIN, we have had some good performances this season which I find it difficult to altogether forget or dismiss as luck. I’m pleased to hear you don’t boo or heckle, but there is definitely a limit to the sort of behaviour that is acceptable – if a customer or client of mine decided to publicly abuse me on the basis of an hour and a half’s work out of the whole week (the rest of which they didn’t even see), which was represented by the actions of others, they would promptly be told where to go, instead of being tolerated as by both the Club and Mac. I imagine that yourself and many others would behave in a similar way to me.

I have never said that others are wrong for airing their views, and in fact I have repeated myself again and again in this thread to say that of course, everyone has a right to.

I agree, Peacock is tired, but I think Kylie has been brilliant. If Sinfield is defending out wide that is either because he has been asked to play there by Mac, or because that is where he has decided to position himself. If he too is tired, perhaps the logic is that out wide there should be less defending to do. In addition to this, a player of Sinfield’s calibre is always going to be targeted because of his importance to the team, so perhaps the players around him should also be accountable for his “getting destroyed”. Shaun Lunt is a new player to us and if the management see fit to see how he gets on in a different position to ensure he is fully utilised, I have no problem in testing this out (for example, moving Delaney into the second row was a very astute decision by Mac, as I have already pointed out).

I don’t think that any of my arguments indicate that I am “living in the past” – perhaps you should go back and read my original post. How you choose to support the team is indeed your choice (as I have repeated again and again in this post!!), but my definition of support is quite different, and I have as much right to that as you. I’m not making any excuses, I’m looking for reasons – reasons allow for feedback and change, excuses do not.

Also, when you say we’ve been poor for months, I think you must mean two months – in the run up to March, we had poor games against Wigan away, Cas away (first half), Saints away, Huddersfield at home, and Bradford away but good games against Hull KR at home, Manly, Widnes away, Cas away (second half), Warrington at home, Salford away, London at home and Catalans at home. Incidentally, Warrington and Catalans are in the top three, showing how competitive we can be.

While I started this thread as a defence of Brian McDermott and asked people not to boo and heckle, not once have I told people how to support the Club or that their view is wrong (please see my MANY statements on people’s right to their own view) – in my opinion, some of us have had a really good debate on here. If you don’t like my or Juan’s view, that’s absolutely fine – frankly, all you’ve done is get heated because you don’t agree and ask questions of us instead of offering some really substantial arguments like myself and some of the other posters.