I know we are not privvy to internal decisions, but I would love to know BMD's reasoning for playing Hardaker on the wing & Goulding at FB. Goulding, whilst enthusiastic, was cast around like a rag doll all night, with Hardaker twiddling his thumbs on the wing.

Then, lo & behold, BMD decides at 6 v 42 on the scoreboard to switch Hardaker back to FB.

Now I know Hardaker has not been in top form (who has?), but surely in times of strife you keep your tried & tested internationals in their best positions.

Also, with our much-talked-about injury problems, what has happened with Singleton? Surely he's a better bet on the bench than Achurch & Walters?

Really? How often has he played on the wing.
He played full-back at Featherstone and I don't remember him playing anywhere but there for Leeds, although I don't watch every game.
He certainly didn't win MoS playing on the wing.
Send him to us, we could do with a back-up for Dorn.

We stopped leaking points but I'd put that down to Cas taking their foot off the gas and most importantly JJB was moved away from that 2nd row position that constantly saw them waltz down that right hand channel.

He played wing in his first season with Leeds before switching inside to centre. He was a pretty good winger several years ago, but obviously is better used at fullback.

Whatever. Do you think Golding is a better fullback than Hardaker?

Pretty sure he played quite a bit of wing at Featherstone. He started out getting games at Leeds on the wing, moved to centre for a year and then took over at FB mid-2012.

Also the idea that any FB at this level is unaccustomed to slotting in at wing is ridiculous.

Also as far as potential reasons as to why he's been started on the wing the last two weeks then look back to the week he's missed and then spent the night on Twitter getting into online fights and making himself look stupid again threatening to go around to people's place of work to have it out with them.....that won't have gone unnoticed by management who will expect players to conduct themselves/represent the club well if they're going to use social media.

No I don't but i don't think them switching had anything to do with Cas' scoring rate slowing down a bit.

Are you serious? You are suggesting that his coach has picked him to play on the wing as some kind of punishment for his social media activity?
Bizarre.

If I was Powell I'd be disappointed with that. Bombed as many chances as they took. Great to see a Leeds Academy half-back ripping it up out there.

Meanwhile across the gangway McDermott is giving the team the rest of the week off. Back in Monday morning lads.

I think We need bits of both. Until tonight I thought there was effort and some hope, however we look totally shot now and I can't see where they go next. This could get worse. The next 2 look like big defeats.

Possibly, he was happily picking Golding on the wing and Hardaker FB before that night on Twitter from him then it changed. If we had more backs fit he might have dropped him completely.

If this is the case, McDermott has completely lost it.

That might be true. We'll never know what the score would have been if Hardaker started at 1.

However I think it's terrible man-management in three ways.

1) For Hardaker. Putting a guy who is not without ego but has been outstanding into the least involved position in the team can only be taken as a deliberate humiliation.

2) For Holding. Unnecessarily exposing a young player at a delicate stage of his career to a vital position in a struggling team, with potentially very bad effects for his confidence and development.

3) For the rest of the team, who may be equally wrong-footed by the coach's decision and certainly suffer the effects of the team being deliberately weakened at a time when it needs all the help it fan get.

Has he? Would the decision be made by him alone considering club management too will have had a say? As a player you're representing your club at all times and Hardaker acted like a embarrassing tool and like I said is perhaps fortunate we have so many backs missing at the moments to not be dropped at all for that incident.

I'm hearing McDermott has resigned after giving his last speech in the changing room.