Given the team he inherited they have made the right decisions on the field more often than not. Take them out and you get what we have now a shambles on the field.

McD watches Baldwinson every day in training and im sure he watches his performances and gets reports from Fev as to how he is doing and on that basis forms a decision as to whether he is ready at this stage to play at a much higher level. Whether you or I or anyone else agrees that is McD's decision to make.

If he decides the answer is not yet does that mean he is doing it out of spite??? Its ridiculous to say yes and there is no evidence to say yes.

As to why is he in the squad, quite simply as with a few of the numbers 20-25 they are lads with potential but not quite ready yet.

Graham Murray didnt used to pick Sinfield often when Sinny was squad number 30. Was that out of spite??? Why was Sinny in the squad??? He was England academy captain so why wasnt he ready????. It was all simply because the coach at that time believed he wasnt quite ready at so young to play SL.

grix is available at the end of this season?? ferres and mullally done a great job so why not

No I don't agree with your allegations. We are missing those two players and their leadership on the field but to suggest Mac sat back without evidence is why I rate your views on this as ridiculous.

2015 McDermott with Sinfield, Peacock = LLS

2016 McDermott without Sinfield, Peacock = currently adrift in 12th

The results speak for themselves and in business/sport nobody cares if you used to be good.

Dont worry fella Ferres and Mullally are now getting used to playing in front of a crowd so will improve soon. After years of playing in front of your silent 200 the switch to Leeds was a bit noisy for them.

Bottom of the league v Catalans and 14k turn up. What did you lot get when you topped the league??? 116 was it???

We seem to have very polar opposite view here either he can do no wrong or everything is macs fault. The truth lies somewhere in the middle. The success we have had he has a part in equally in the decay he also has a role

I suggest you re-read. The passage you quoted was in the paragraph where I was referring to 2011-2015. ie he is OK with world class players in a settled champion team, with "a small smattering of injuries which do not disrupt too much".

I shall not require an apology re "shows the paucity and inaccuracy of your arguments"

Your first paragraph is just waffle.

I concur.

For the record (as you were replying to my post), I did not use the word spiteful (or anything resembling it)

No you didnt SoH but a previous poster did.

So let us be clear Sal, do you want a change of coach or do you want Mac to stay?

I am not so deep in the blame game as you but my view is based on what is clearly and firstly the players that are failing to perform. IMO this has been down to errors and poor decision making that has been the personal responsibility of those same players who should know how to tackle, pass and where to stand in the defensive line as they have done hundreds of times previously. Your whole argument is based an assumption that the coach is not working on the training field to improve performances. Why do you think the likes of Hardaker, Watkins and recently McGuire are making schoolboy errors?

I believe there are reasonable reasons outside the coaches control. Confidence like momentum are great when going for you but much more difficult to arrest when running against you. This season has been a very odd one throughout SL and just a few less errors at crucial times in games could have seen us mid table now.

But we are where we are and we have to accept that and we would all do better to get behind the players and coaches to try and lift the confidence rather than yet more and more negative topics that all repeat the same thing.

An understandable reaction to a recent event doesn't make the saying any less true. There will be a time for a reflection on McDermott's Headingley career but the current situation won't wait.