My pleasure.

No need for to add any more fuel to the fire ignited by the usual suspects

Yes Warrington made the right decision and improved the squad especially in the creative organiser department. Having failed to do this at the end of last season we urgently need to give our coach the tools for the job and get rid of a couple of vastly overrated players who have a bad attitude.

We don't have players with a bad attitude, we have players realising they are not as good as thought. We only have a coach with a bad attitude, a coach who unlike the players can't seem to accept he is nowhere near as good as he thinks.

Finding another Sinfield and Peacock just like that so he has tools is not going to happen. Much easier to have a coach who is capable of getting a performance out of players. Yes we still need a player change, but we need a coach capable of managing that.

So speaks a critic whose opinion is that Hardaker is one of our best performers this year, and also is blind to how bad Watkins currently is and cannot see the fine qualities in Keinhorst. I rest my case.

Oh come on you can't seriously believe that after some of the showings certain players are putting in. Just about everyone can see it in Hardaker but you unsurprisingly can't.

Daryl Powell at Castleford (a smaller club with fewer resources than those afforded any coach at Leeds) has a large turnover of players from season to season including key players in key positions - yet they have not fallen in a heap. His players generally are perceived to perform to their maximum, he appears able to give them a structure to utilise their abilities and to get the best out of them. Why can't Brian?

All the players are playing the same. Why pick out one player? Yet you can't see a problem with the coach. Does that not say more about you? Is it really a bad attitude when all the players are showing contempt for the coach?

I would be quite happy to put a lot of money on it that an immediate change of coach would have a much bigger effect for the positive in this group of players, than any one or two players leaving would.

Of course I have said nothing of the sort anywhere, but you know that really.

Why can't the players tackle? The players, at the very least, share responsibility for this mess. If we were mid-table and just cruising along then it being about the coach not getting the best out of players might be a legitimate point.

Getting hammered at the bottom of the table and conceding simple tries points to different issues than simply the coach. Especially a coach that has so recently proved he could get the best out of the players.

Oh like I've said the coach deserves his share of the blame but the players are just as culpable.

All players are playing the same? Nonsense. Unless you think the efforts the likes of Keinhorst and Lilley are putting in are being matched all around which they most definitely aren't.

We have a small group of guys trying for the whole match. We then have a group of guys who start off trying but heads drop after we go 2/3 scores behind. We also have a group of guys who aren't in it from the start.

Is that Leeds mindset of unconscious complacency you've alluded to still a prevalent issue? If so, isn't the coach responsible for eradicating it?

Maybe it's effecting all of Headingley......20-3 Yorkshire already I believe vs Lancashire

There's a core of players who know they are going to get selected regardless of performance as there are no viable alternatives.

That's fine when all are performing well. When they're not, the lack of competition for places creates complacency that the coach doesn't seem to be able to eradicate - or indeed by his post match comments seem interested in doing so.

The failure of the Academy to produce players capable of challenging the incumbents for first team places is coming back to bite Leeds in the backside. Barrie McDermott's tenure as head of youth is starting to stink the place out.

I would agree on Hardaker but his issue isn't on the field its off it - he tries on the field but he isn't as fit as he should be so he isn't as effective as he should be.

Or even affecting?

Headingley isn't responsible for Yorkshire's decline towards WBCCR this season. The loss of Jonny Bairstow most definitely is.

3/29 now - reporting live from Headingley via a morse code device. Can't utilise smoke signals as its a smokeless zone here.