So are you saying TV performances are the best way to judge a coach?

Another self-awarded pat on the back? You'll end up looking like Stephen Hawkins after he's been 'looked after' by his carer. Heavy bruising to say the least.

Well I know it goes against the grain for types like you to admit I was right all along. And of course you would never, ever give yourself a "self-awarded pat on the back" would you BB?

'types like me' - love it!! very good.

We should all show ourselves a little love from time-to-time but you're filling more Kleenex than a 13 year old school boy Juan!

Not just those - second rows to centre and vice versa, Non-props at prop and outside backs switching from preferred positions.
He could have covered the injuries by putting a load of kids in at once, just like his successor at Quins. Remember them with their wonderful start to the season. How quickly were they burned out?
He had to cover McGuire with an experienced half. Sinfield fitted the bill. The tactical choice he made to keep him there when McGuire returned paid massive dividends for both Burrow who was reinvigorated by his 'supersub' role and Clarkson who improved steadily throughout the season.
Even if I accepted that some of the changes were not forced, I would still maintain that he made difficult choices under difficult circumstances and it paid off towards the end of the season - much more than I or you or anyone 'outside the bubble' imagined it could.

Yadda yadda yadda

As a assistant coaching thought he was great. As a first team coach I thought he did ok with a poor side. Then he came back to Leeds and I thought he was next to crxp. But then he got us to the cc final and we were mm's from winning that. After that we won the grand final and now I think he is a great coach. What do I know?

Tell you what I know is that your is that you are trolling

I have consistently thought Mac to be a good coach - yes even whilst at Harlequins. Equally I have thought him to be a fairly poor performer on TV (way too enigmatic and thoughtful for today's sound bite/easy on the ear culture). Even this aspect of the job has improved considerably for Brian and some of his TV interviews towards the back end of last season were really entertaining and enlightening - albeit yuo always had a sense that at any second he might just jump up and thwack his interviewer.

I always thought that Bluey was terrible as an interviewee - even though he pretty much always said the 'right things', never really rated him as a club coach either even though results seem to suggest he was one of Leeds's best ever coaches.

Lets face it both Brians had a really good group of players.

Yes they did but they and in particular McDermott had to deal with a lot of disruption and the blooding and bringing through of a lot of relative newcomers/kids at the same time...

This season should be very interesting