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| Quote: tonys_triumphs "[I think mcDermott can only run teams such as quins,salford,hull kr,crusaders etc.
Leeds have been superior in the super league,With good managers and coaches along the way!]
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Maybe thats why you have Mc Dermott in charge.Just to give the rest of us mere mortals a chance.
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| Watching him being interviewed after the Warrington game on Sky, you can see why he's failing as a coach. He sounds and looks clueless, dour and incredibly stubborn. I cannot imagine his style goes well in a dressing room, either as a tactical, technical coach or as a motivator.
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| Warrington were pretty good against Leeds. Leeds were dreadful - even given the injuries we had and slightly bizarre team selections. Absolutely without structure at both ends of the field and playing with virtually no fire (legal I mean).
We looked like a badly coached team. There's no other way to describe it. I agree that individual players make mistakes, give away penatlies etc, but IMO that's all part and parcel of a side looking fairly clueless about what its trying to do and how to do it and being frustrated at the way things are going.
A good coach can make a lot of difference to a side. Sadly I donlt think that's what McDermott is.
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| What has supprised me this year as well I assumed with macs background we at least would be super fit, which doesn't seem the case, we looked to be playing a few speeds down from Warrington all the game.
The biggest blunder for me was the squad selection and missing players who were in form and NOT injured. Playing 2 impact back rowwers from the start and the bizzare interchange times and decisions
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| Quote: BrisbaneRhino "Warrington were pretty good against Leeds. Leeds were dreadful - even given the injuries we had and slightly bizarre team selections. Absolutely without structure at both ends of the field and playing with virtually no fire (legal I mean).
We looked like a badly coached team. There's no other way to describe it. I agree that individual players make mistakes, give away penatlies etc, but IMO that's all part and parcel of a side looking fairly clueless about what its trying to do and how to do it and being frustrated at the way things are going.
A good coach can make a lot of difference to a side. Sadly I donlt think that's what McDermott is.'"
Dreadful coaching and dreadfully indisciplined performances notwitstanding, none of that will matter a jot after next week because Leeds will be playing Crusaders (again! yawn), Bradford, Hull KR, Hull FC (twice), Salford, Catalan, Harlequins and Wakefield with only a demanding and testing SL fixture against Wigan sandwiched in-between.
That's the beauty of SL... a team like Leeds can be crap most weeks but it doesn't matter because they aren't tested every week and will still win most games by default.
Leeds will finish 5th at worst.
Leeds will more than likely finish 5th at best too.
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| Will Leeds beat a team above them in any competition this season?
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| The table as it stands now I would be happy with 5th and don't agree with you Keith on 5th being the lowest place we can finish.
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| Quote: batleyrhino "Will Leeds beat a team above them in any competition this season?'"
no
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| Quote: batleyrhino "Will Leeds beat a team above them in any competition this season?'"
We beat cas when they were above us!!
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| Quote: batleyrhino "Will Leeds beat a team above them in any competition this season?'"
On the evidence so far this season, not a chance......As an interested neutral, I must admit I was always baffled by the appointment of McDermott. It smacked at the time of a short-term move and from the results so far, its beginning to look like that is how it will end up.
I don't think he's particularly helped by having Jimmy Lowes by his side.....It all looks like small-time novices running a big business.
Get a good coach in, revamp your squad (you have a lot of dead wood at present) and with your support you will be fine.
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| Quote: batleyrhino "Will Leeds beat a team above them in any competition this season?'"
That remains to be seen. The possibilities are:
St Helens NEUTRAL
Wigan AWAY
CC Semi Final NEUTRAL
Huddersfield AWAY
Week 2 of SL Play Offs AWAY
Next week is a good opportunity. St Helens are ravaged by injuries, despite the fact their fans don't appear to be relentlessly whinging about those circumstances as much as Leeds fans.
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| Quote: Ferdy "The table as it stands now I would be happy with 5th and don't agree with you Keith on 5th being the lowest place we can finish.'"
Your perception of Leeds current position in the SL pecking order must be lower than mine then.
I don't believe Leeds have quite yet sunk to the low depths of mediocrity inhabited by those who are just making up the numbers. They do appear to have become potential whipping boys against the genuine SL competition however.
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| It's becoming increasingly obvious that we have the two tier league within SL this season, and Leeds are currently well entrenched in the second tier of the league. I agree that the highest we can finish this season is 5th, and that it's likely that we will, but I can also see us finishing as low as 7th. It's a shame really when you consider where we were only 18 months ago.
We are suffering badly for GH taking his eye off the ball, and he has a lot of work to do now to get us back up to the higher end of SL, starting with putting the right coach in place for the next few years. There is no salary cap for coaching, and Leeds as a club have the highest turnover of any SL club, so we should be able to attract the best coaches in the world. It's time to prove that we have the desire...
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| Agree fully with the above post. Think we will probably finish 5th but could quite easily drop down further
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