Difficult to judge Chester's ability accurately while ever he has the vastly experienced John Kear by his side .

Im just desperate to see a new coach at Leeds!

Then we could read the line "shows just how poor the standard of SL is nowadays" rolled out YET AGAIN for the 4,789th time on this board this year

yeah because it's brilliant isn't it?
got the sake of the game in this country the whole game needs to kick on. seen most leeds games this year and enjoyed 3 or 4.
speak to other fans and they say the same

That doesn't mean the standard is lower though. I agree the game, in general, isn't as good as to watch. However I think that's a consequence of more teams upping their game and defences naturally improving.

Personally I think we need to look at quite significant changes to the rules to make the game more enjoyable to watch.

When the likes of Tony Smith are saying the game is stagnating at best that cannot be ignored - something needs to change i.e influx of better players and coaches

You must have been drinking before you posted that

Not saying it is, just having a bit of fun with how many times that line is rolled out on here

It would help if most of the officials implimented the rules already in place on a more consistent basis.
Wrt other teams upping their game Cas have kicked on FC repeated last years efforts thus far & Wakey deserve a mention.
Bearing that in mind though ST's Wire & Wigan have all gone down in performance standards/Consistency so i do think the standard overall is down across SL.

Saints I don't think are any real different from last year. Wigan clearly had injury problems just like Cas did 12 months ago.

Warrington have obviously gone downwards but it's almost a straight swap between ourselves

Performance wise ST's have been on a downward spiral since winning the GF imo.
Have Wigans injuries been worse than they had last year they were winning games on a regular basis with 8/9/10 players missing?
Cas are still playing their same style just getting better results with an obvious better squad.
Wrt Wire their demise imo is as much down to TS staying too long & their inability to pick a settled 6/7 as anything else.