Spot on post Mark L.
Once again Loiner 81 & Printer sensationally miss the point but then again because we've been successful in the past any old sh*# should be acceptable right?
As for faux outrage & a moan again completely missing the points been made especially wrt the lack of structure & hypocritical response from the Coach.

Nope not missing the points at all. Merely pointing out people on here are grown adults fully capable of making their own decisions on whether to attend the match with no gun pointed at their head. Let's be honest McDermott could've called it a training run BEFORE the match and it wouldn't have had much effect on the attendance.

Sorry but anyone who thinks yesterday's game and all previous Boxing Day matches, since the birth of summer rugby. were ever anything more than a marketing & training exercise isn't just missing the point..... they're also missing a few brain cells.

That must include the hypocrite Coach then because BEFORE the game it mattered & he refers to last years game more than once as a marker for what then occured throughout 2016.
Also you weren't there flower so can't even comprehend how bad it actually was & that's allowing for the result not mattering or that its a friendly

Just so we are clear no-one went yesrerday expecting a GF winning performance or a 60-0 drubbling full of free flowing International standard RL.
What was served up compared to previous years & allowing for selection pre-season & it being a friendly was 100% garbage from start to finish for every reason outlined.

Welcome to the world of sport. Performance isn't a gimme and teams and individuals have flopped on the biggest of occasions never mind a friendly.

We used to actually win Boxing Day games in the early 80's.

Having been to the match......this is a very accurate report. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-8306454

Having been to the match......this is a very accurate report. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-8306454

We did indeed.

Boxing Day 1980 lost 2-5 at home to Fev courtesy of a penalty goal to Kevin Dick for Leeds and a Steve Evans try converted by Steve Quinn for Fev. Leeds team that day was Hague, D. Smith, Wilkinson, Heselwood, Atkinson, Holmes, Dick, Harrison, Ward, Pitchford, Eccles, Carroll, Cookson... Subs: Dickinson, Dyl.

Boxing Day 1983 beat Fulham at home 30-6... Tries to Andrew Smith (2), Trevor Clark, David Creasser, Gary Moorby and Keith Rayne and three Creasser goals. Fulham try David Hull, goaled by Steve Diamond.

Boxing Day 1984 beat Cas at home 20-14... Tries to Mark Conway, David Creasser, Paul Gill and four goals to Creasser. Cas tries Ron Sigsworth, Kevin Ward and three goals by Robert Beardmore.

Boxing Day 1985 beat Dewsbury at home 28-8... Tries to Kevin Dick (2), Tony Currie, Andrew Smith and six goals from Creasser. Dewsbury try Chris Mita and two goals from Chris Vasey.

The whole point of pre season games are to get some structure (as well as making money on this one ) sadly structure and Mac do not go together

Although your opinions sometimes act as a useful counterbalance to some of the more negative opinions on here, you may have been better off on this occasion maintaining your silence and keeping what's left of your integrity in tact, as you managed so successfully yesterday.

Even those fans who are the most uncritical, who live, breath and worship the Rhinos... even they are mightily peed off with yesterday's performance rather than the result itself. These are fans who were magnificent last season, who turned up week in, week out, despite the shower of smelly brown stuff being served up and sprayed all over until Segeyaro arrived and cleaned the place up a bit.

The reaction by many to that performance yesterday indicates that the fanbase aren't going to be so forgiving or supportive of the same stinky stuff (or worse) being served up in 2017. They didn't like what they saw... a window pointing directly at 2017... and they certainly weren't expecting the smell to be worse than last season either.

Coming from a guy who constantly criticises the fan base for turning up and calling them sheep etc. then your faux concern is laughable.

You ridicule people for turning up during the season then offer fake sympathy for a pre season friendly. Sorry William I see through your fake concern for others as it's clearly BS just because those people are quite heavy on slating the club right now. The club start doing well again and your opionion on fans will alter again.