On moving the Magic Weekend to the start of the season:

Wouldn't that cause a problem in that the only grounds big enough to host such an event will be hosting either football or Six Nations rugby at that time of year, and aren't going to want 7 games in 2 days chewing their pitch up?

Sorry to bring this old one up chaps.........

But i feel that this accolade should have already been awarded to him, Whatever bad press he received in his last season should surely not tarnish his record of delivering 2 back to back SL GF wins should it not?

Will Bluey now be awarded his place in the SS.COM hall of fame?

If not,then why not?

Thoughts please.........

yes, of course he should

Yes he should. Can't see why not

Leeds went backwards every year he was coach

He should be in there no doubts at all the only coach to win back to back SL titles and also win the WCC and GF in the same season it shouild'nt even be a question of whther or not he deserves it he should already be in there.

It's a shame that his tenure ended as it did, but his record is there for all to see, and he should definitely be in there.

I have pm'd SS.COM to ask his personal feelings regarding this matter

He has subsequently replied and has said that it sounds like a reasonable idea, but that it depended on the consensus of opinions from posters on here

Does Bluey deserve to be in the SS.COM Hall of fame?

YES!

Still the only coach in Super League history to win back-to-back titles, and the only one to win the WC and GF in the same season.

There’s that and then there’s the ‘hard to please’ persona us loiners have to live up to. Considering how he left the club, Including Bluey in the hall of fame would be seen as going soft by outsiders looking in.

A man who wins two Grand Finals back to back should certainly be included.

Bluey should be in the hall of fame imo,his record of winning back to back titles should be remembered by rhinos fans,and what better way than in the hall of fame

You cannot forget the back to back GF wins but one thing Bluey did was kill 50% of our attacking flair. He didn't turn Leeds into a team of meat heads playing one out rugby but he did kill a lot of the flamboyant rugby. In 2009/2010 Leeds turned into a team that stopped using dummy runners. When attacking the opponents line we saw Leeds just basically passing the ball along the line in the hope of a missed tackle or creating an overlap, no decoy runners to make the defence think was used what so ever. This was during a time when Warrington, who of course are now coached by our former coach, have turned into the masters of dummy runners and blitzing teams outwide - including ourselves in CC final. Leeds have a team full of ball players and speedy back rowers to hammer the opposition line from all angles. Brian Mac knows this and is trying to bed that style back into the team. Leeds we're just so easy to defend against at times under Bluey.

Except of course when we reached 2 GF's won the LLS and a WCC!!!
The rest is irrellevant we won 4 trophies and appeared in another CC final in his 3 yrs at the helm and that's where he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame and the rest like i said above is completely irrellevant as is 06 under Tony Smith.

Whoa there.

Much as I agree with your general approach, you can't just ignore bad seasons and only focus on the winning ones when determining how good a coach was.

You need to look at their entire spell at the club, warts and all.

McLennan took on a successful side and at best maintained it at its previous levels - IMO Smith is ahead of him in the pecking order due to the improvement he brought both in terms of performance and results.