Quote: FlexWheeler "It was as if Smith went temporarily insane and went on some vindictive crusade to see how many big games he could get leeds to lose against teams they'd beaten comprehensively, sometimes weeks prior.
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Sorry for the edit but I couldn't read all that again.
That sounds terrible and yet despite all that under Smith Leeds won their first title for 32 years, qualified for and won their first WCC, finished top under a divisional structure for the first time, won a second Championship, never finished below 3rd in the Regular Rounds with an average top 2 finish over four campaigns, taking 74% of the points on offer in all comps (McClennan 72%, McDermott 66%), with an average result of 34-17 (McClennan 29-18, McDermott 28-21)
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As for the start of the golden era Brian McClennan couldn't really have heaped any more praise on the Smith legacy that he had the good fortune to inherit and maintain.