It's about time GH stood up to be counted , last night's carnage has been coming for a while , and he has been asleep at the wheel . We all accepted that the achievements of the ageing squad in 2015 was nothing short of remarkable , but the way he has overseen the ongoing transition has been shocking , in fact it smacks of abject mismanagement at boardroom level .
If he thinks the replacements he brought in were good enough to sustain the club as a major force he is sadly delusional .
McDermott shoulders his share of the blame rightly so , and maybe he has run his course at Leeds and a new voice is needed in the dressing room , but for a CEO to allow this to happen on his watch is criminal .

THERE WILL be no knee-jerk reaction to Leeds Rhinos’ worst Super League defeat. Chief executive Gary Hetherington described the 66-10 loss at Castleford Tigers as “embarrassing” and admitted everybody at the club is now under pressure.

But he rejected the possibility of signings to strengthen the squad and gave no indication he is considering a change of coach.


The Rhinos have endured a nightmare first half against a red hot Castleford side with winger Greg Minikin crossing for a hat trick

The result on Thursday night was Leeds’ biggest margin of defeat in Super League and the most points scored against them since Wigan won 68-14 at Central Park in August, 1996.

“No Super League team should concede 12 tries,” Hetherington said.

“It was an embarrassing experience for all our fans, players and coaching staff.

“Without taking anything away from Castleford, who were very good and have been so far this season, we were really poor from start to finish.

“We didn’t compete in any phase of the game.”

Hetherington added.”

WTF. I don't expect GH to roll over, I expected vague promises. But it seems that we are back to the full on denial and blame everything other than the quality of the squad and the lack of effective leadership. I was gutted last night but this "statement" is far far worse. I fear this season may be worse than last.

Hope that's the "Vote of Confidence"!

Beat me to it.

Aye, Leicester city just sacked a man who pulled off a miricale last year.I didn't agree with it but last year is last year, you can't live in the past forever. Mac got one years grace which he was amazingly lucky to get but no signs point to things improving whatsoever. Crazy just to let another season drift along in hope again imo but it seems that will be the way from GH's response.

GH and Mr Caddick came in and saved the club and put it on a sound footing.I bet if it were up for sale now there would be more than one or two good potential owners putting in bids

I wander if Phil Clarke has recovered yet. He was so excited at Leeds getting thrashed he sounded like he creamed his pants several times

I imagine he spent the day relaxing at home watching a re-run of the sky coverage.

I expect he will have donned his scrum cap and his shoulder pads followed by the norweb shirt and then indulged in vigorous pleasure of the Palm surrounded by a sea of soiled kleenex emitting the occasional highly pitched squeal of "yes minikin, yes"

I heard staff at the Mendahose Jungle found an empty husk of a man stuck to the seat in one of the cubicles of the gents this morning.

Is there a cashflow issue? Does anybody with experience fancy having a butchers at Leeds latest accounts and see if anything looks odd? Nothing seems to explain the lack of investment vs amount of income.

I have searched for the other article but have been unable to find it ( YEP) Before the season started GH did an interview/ wrote/ sent a piece in....the gist or my interpretation of it was that Leeds could not have another season like last...that the performance would be monitored and if bad would be reviewed mid season.

Taking the speech you quoted .... Whilst I note he says we will not be recruiting anymore players... at least ,however small there is the vague hope that should a player become available then we will get him...that is the way things have been conducted recently...Since as Cronulla lost and our desperate for a hooker then maybe he could do a swap for another player ..though my preference would have been for the money..

Whilst he says he has faith in the coach.... I will take this line

" AT THIS EARLY STAGE OF THE SEASON EVERYONE IN THE ORGANISATION IS NOW UNDER PRESSURE TO REACT ACCORDINGLY .” For me that is now on record ..if the players, coaches do not change results then something has to change....don't see any other way of interpreting that.

Except that GH has a habit of contradicting himself. e.g. when in charge of what was Leeds Carnegie he wanted to ring fence the premiership ..he felt Super league was the perfect template of how a sport should be run....so I was surprised that he backed the new format...though perhaps the other stance suited at the time.

Anyway I know he keeps his cards close to his chest.....so I for now will give benefit of doubt if things continue to spiral he will act to stop it.

True. We only had 8 first teamers missing and those that made it might as well have been missing too.

Its time for him to go NOW