Lancs 68-4, still 240 behind and the ball doing plenty by all accounts. Got a long tail as well with Tom Bailey at 8 and Neil Wagner at 9.

Couple more quick wickets and Yorkshire might have half a chance of making them follow on.

Another wicket just fallen.

Lancs 7/92

And this is a Yorkshire attack without the left-arm variation of Sidebottom and Willey too.

Indeed.

The fall of recent wickets is surprising.

The sun is out!

Read it again carefully. I don't claim I KNOW he wanted certain players, I suggested some players/position in which I think he would've wanted someone else to what we've got.

Everybody knows Falloon was only signed because he was the only hooker left without a club for this season.

The anger from some just because someone doesn't place all the blame on McDermott really shows up their long running dislike of the guy.

Im sure McDermott wants Sam Burgess, Inglis, Thurston, Scott and Farah should GH go get them for him cos he wants them????

Wonder if any coach in history of RL has always got the players they want everytime???

Nice hyperbole. But plenty of hookers and HB's in he game who would be realistic targets instead of Falloon and going with Sutcliffe who was also coming off a serious knee injury.

But as you said we got Falloon cos he was only hooker available

Only because we acted too late.

So you know who McDermott wanted and that Leeds didnt make a bid for anyone??? Fair play to you fella thats some inside knowledge that.

Where do I say that?

If we did bid for some hookers we failed every time until we had to settle for Falloon.

But you said we only got Falloon cos we acted too late. Are you now saying we maybe didnt act too late and that we made bids for targets but couldnt get the deals done for whatever reason??

Wonder if these targets were McDermotts targets that you said GH had refused him earlier in the thread???? Or did McD give GH a list of targets that GH refused and bid for his own targets????

Or maybe just maybe GH and McD believed Falloon was in budget, was worth a 1 year punt in the hope it came off because he had enough NRL experience to fill the spot.

Or maybe we signed Falloon on a 1 year deal because we were desperate and neither party was interested in a longer deal and hopeful we could sign better the following year.

Everyone knows we messed up with the hooker and it was an emergency panic signing because neither us or Falloon had any other option. That's all on GH for allowing that to be the case.

But the point is nobody knows whether they thought he was good enough or whether it was a panic buy. Truthfully it could be either one. So on that basis to claim McD has had targets declined by GH without any proof of it seems a bit over the top. And nobody knows if we made moves for other hookers but couldnt get deals done. In truth your making points about GH with nothing to back it up.

Printer is actually correct in one sense. McDermott wanted Houghton and Westerman but Hetherington wouldn't pay out for either, so he does have some say in the players that come to the club.