Leeds have enough ability within the team, despite injuries, to not be bottom of the table with only 3 wins all season.

McDermott, as the man in charge of the team shoulders a large amount of responsibility, he is culpable. Just like in alot of other jobs, if a team is under performing and making lots of mistake the manager of that team is held responsible. You don't get people coming in and saying, well he doesn't make the mistakes and underperform, it's them.

It kind of goes with the territory of being a manager or being in charge of something, you are responsible for it's performance.

Perfect example. Would have been easy for Chelsea to just sit back and let Mourinho live off what he'd achieved in previous years. Abramovich took the difficult and potentially unpopular decision in order to arrest their slide, and they finished in the top half of the table.

Obviously Leeds aren't going to achieve that kind of turnaround in the time left in the season, but there are plenty of examples of coaching changes bringing improved performance from the same playing squad.

Leeds have literally nothing left to lose now. Hard to conceive of any change they could make that would lead to performances worsening.

He (like any other coach of a major sports team) was put in charge to win trophies. He's been VERY successful at that.
Is he the man to take Leeds into the next era? I don't think so, but I bet most coaches would love to be such a failure.

On a separate note does anybody remember the old days on here when certain posters used to try and attribute most of the positive things during TS's tenure to McDermott. How times change.

The team is trying too hard, it seems as though the players are desperate to create something on every play. With so many players out McDermott needs to go to a very basic game plan in 5 drives and a pressure kick then concentrate solely on defence.

The coach is responsible for the game plan. So that leaves two options, either he's telling the team to try stupid, low percentage offloads in our half early in the tackle count or he's telling them something else and they are not listening to him. Either way he's got to go.

Did Mourinho lose half his squad to injuries? If not then not a good comparison.

I don't recall Chelsea being all that better after he went either.

18 points from 17 games under Mourinho

32 points from 21 games under Hiddink

So just over a point a game to just under 1.5 points per game, with the same players

We need to stick by him! We can't go from winning the treble one year to losing 3 lads to retirement and however many to injurys doesn't mean he isn't fit for the job. We have recruited poorly imo signing past it Aussies and useless backs. End of the day we are too big of a club to not be contending for the grand final and I'm confident that in a year or two we will be back up there with the best!

If Hiddink had have been in charge all season they still only finish 1 place higher than they did, assuming the points per game would've been the same had Hiddink been in charge for all 38 games.

No it's not a good comparison, because Mourinho had proved himself as a top manager at several different club's in several different circumstances.

Other than the 15 game unbeaten run they went on.

Brian? The Special One? If Roman Abramovitch owned Leeds BMD would have disappeared after the Cas game. And I mean "disappeared".

McDermott should thank his lucky stars he doesn't work for Celino!!

Leeds have plenty to lose starting with their super league status .