The king of dumb questions Phil Caplan was at it again - do you think that was Bodene Thompson's best game since he's been at Leeds?

Smith is too polite to respond with the obvious, "how the hell would I know, I've only just got here".

I'm sure most people on here could come up with 20 better questions than this stuff. One thing I do miss about McDermott was how willing he was to take on some of the more ridiculous bits of the RL media.

From memory….Zane 103 metres and 6 tackle busts

Fair enough

He was ok last night still way below marquee standard, arguably offered the least of the forward on the field, He’s stats are better than previous weeks but should be minimum standard for a starting prop.

The so called journalists are ,bar the odd one or two, pathetic!

Excellent all round team performance. Playing with intent, everyone appeared to know what their role was and, by and large, they executed it beautifully. Leeming was exceptional, Austin and Myler superb and Zak gives what we've been missing at full back.

Yeah it’s often closed questions and there doesn’t seem to be much thought in terms of a line of questioning that could get an interesting response.

So Rohan do you think that’s the best performance of the season?

…..it’s probably up there

Proceeds to next question.

I appreciate the above exchange didn’t actually happen, just seems representative of the kind of back and forth you get.

The questions should be around why, what, how, open questions to get a more informative answer. Often the questions seem to suggest “I’m a journalist for this sport, don’t I know a lot about it…”

Personally, I think the lack of insightful questions is down to the fact most people in the RL media don't really understand the game.

Mush

Agreed, he needs to be pulling up trees week after week on his money. Looking at him it really does appear to be effort around the park. The more I see.of.him the more o thiink he sees this as an easy break away from the NRL

This "Marquee" tag massively skews fans expectations in what we are getting as a player. Tetevano played off the bench, in world class side at the Panthers. He knew what his role was and he did it well by all accounts. He comes over hear and suddenly he is expected to make 200 metres a game, lead the pack and be the toughest prop in the league. Agar made a lot of noise about his very presence setting a new standard in training. It's a lot of pressure to play with and I think some of his discipline issues may have been linked to his trying too hard. Hopefully he can just get his head down, play his natural game, and give the kind of contribution he did at the Panthers. He did very well at Warrington. Maybe next time we have marquee money we spend it on one of the spine positions and add some flair and pace. We'll always be underwhelmed if we spend big money on props.

The whole ‘marquee’ thing is a load of rubbish really. Some wild storm idea pushed through by Koukash who knew nothing c about RL! It doesn’t matter what a players getting paid, yea if difference does it make to fans? We should just judge each player on their merits…..

Very good post. Well said

Regardless of his position i’d still expect a marquee player ie one of the top 3 paid players at the club, to be at the least top 3-4 players in his position in the league, he isn’t even top 3-4 forwards in the Team. Yes Marquee is relevant to position and what you expect from that position. But 2 years in and he’s had maybe 2 good games no great games no games where he is the best in his position on the field . He’s maybe not the big 150-200 meter muncher a game player but he needs to be 100-120+ every week a dominant defender, and regularly the too 2-3 forwards in the field. He needs to produce much much mire every week and stop getting banned. The performance on a Friday needs to be minimum every week.Thompson and Donaldson both out played him still on Friday.