Weve as good a record as any SL team at bringing academy lads thru the system and weve as good a batch now as anyone to promote over next few years. Smith's and his staffs job is to get more out of some once promoted and develop them further.

Smith speaks well, clearly a smart and decent bloke but he gave little away today cos its far too early for him to say anything, hes literally just stepped off the plane.

Im happy with the appointment but lets see how it goes. Hes got a bit of time with the players now, a couple of winnable games looming and a happier and healthier squad than a few weeks ago. Lets hope he can hit the ground running.

User avatarchristopher wrote:
rugbyleague88 wrote:
I think the positive is every team barring Saints are extremely average. Leeds with a full side and playing well can easily beat any team barring Saints.


Saints are starting to pick up some key injuries - they may not have it all their own way this year. In fact I think Wigan will dump them out of the cup this weekend.

Interesting to hear that Rohan has in the past served as a last tackle play coach amongst other roles.

No more dying in possession on the last hopefully. Drove me mad under Agar.

Agreed.

Hard to know whether this was game plan, or Leeming being too dominant at acting half. He always seems to go for a run play, rather than pass the ball over the a half.

But I agree, hopefully this will be an area of large improvement. Rohan has been a coach of all aspects of the game during his long apprenticeship, so there's no excuses for improvements across the park.

Hopefully not - John the Baptist does far too much looking over his shoulder at what the club was. That was a unique situation that cannot be recreated. Unfortunately he only knows Leeds at that will be a limiting factor to the development of the squad if he has a big influence. Time to move onwards and upwards.