Sitting in the stands on Saturday with probably 30% of seats vacant in the area I sit which is usually full the remainers talked about the reasons which we quickly concluded was down to England match @ 5pm.
80 minutes later we all had changed our view that a fair proportion was down to excruciatingly poor play on the pitch. Some of us suggesting perhaps the players were the real problem and Smith simply was not good enough to sort the problem out.

Looking at some key players yesterday some of us thought

We need a leader Cam Smith is not good enough to be a water carrier

Miller is a total waste of a shirt as is Fusi

Newman is a spoilt child with no clue as to how to get out of his own self destruct spiral.

The 3 Ex French players are well meaning but clueless

All props are trying but ineffective especially Oledski who seems to have lost his skill and spark

The only players yesterday who looked like they knew what to do were Croft, Martin and Ackers.

As an interim I would turn training over to those 3 and let them form a game plan and let Walker and Grix fill the water bottles.

Peter Smith pretty scathing about the squad in todays YEP. Did make me laugh though when he said maybe it wasn't RS fault after all (the current squad's performances this season).... it's a RS legacy, with a squad that has no back bone, poor leadership and is very undersized in the pack, lacks X factor in the 3 quarter line (Croft and Handley apart) and are so volatile in their performances. This is his squad. They just look so so poorly coached.

We've seen a mix of awful coaching over the last 5 or 6 years or so and woeful recruitment by those coaches (inc GH).. which is why we are where we are now.. having said that, all we need is a top coach with 3 or so good acquisitions in the right areas and we can get into that top 3 or 4 again.

If any Leeds fans are pining for a bit of "coach out" content now ours has been sacked, have a look on Redvee.net they've gone into meltdown

Peter Smith is well informed but he has his views... like he never rates McDonnell despite the fact he was selected for the England squad and has made the Team of the Week several times this season... unlike most other players.