Yep. Didn’t think it would last long between Singleton and Sinfield. 2 very different attitudes towards professionalism.

Agreed

Yeah you've got to view it that way with Singleton. He had clearly not been giving his best at Leeds. Sinfield was dead right in his assessment that a lot of the current squad had lost what it meant to play for Leeds.

Didn’t see much from Singleton all season. The only thing of note I remember him doing was getting sent off v Catalans. As it happens it turned out ok but that was an exceedingly stupid thing to do at a vital part of our season.

Should be tasty when we play Toronto then.
He gives me the impression that he can be a bit of a thug with sly off the ball hits and the like.
I`m sure there`s a good player in there and a change of clubs might well bring out the best in him.

Added to the fact Sinfield had a rocky final season under Mac even though we did the treble ,also soon as Sinny get the DOR job Mac was out

Sinfield didn't join until after McDermott was sacked, but I can see where you are coming from, I'm sure Sinfeld's "the club is rotten" comments were aimed at McDermott, although to be fair to Sinfield it seems he was spot on.

It’s impossible to say really unless you were “in the bubble”. McD brought great success to Leeds for a long time. You can argue it was an alignment of stars but he must have been one of them.

I guess though that as much as people’s strengths show over time, so do their weaknesses and McD is also pretty arrogant and opinionated. I liked him but I know others didn’t.

One thing for sure at Leeds is that post McD the culture will have been all over the place, and it will still be changing now. Whatever Brian believed in was in the DNA of Leeds by that point in his tenure; change that and you create some turmoil until a new tribe forms.

I agree, clearly Sinfield and McDermott didn’t see eye to eye by the end and I don’t think the blame for that is entirely one sided.
However during McDermott’s tenure recruitment was the ultimate responsibility of Hetherington. I’m not saying other things weren’t wrong but GH has to take equal blame at least for the “club being rotten”.

Now of course that responsibility is on Sinfield. I think he’s doing a good job so far personally. If we have people with the wrong mindset or attitudes then let’s get rid where we can. What won us the numerous trophies and the treble was skill combined with attitude.

Oh don't get me wrong I'm far from one the McDermott 'bashers' in fact I was sticking up for him pretty much right up until the end but then I think it was an away game at Wigan and you could tell that something wasn't right at all within the club/squad and something had to change.

It wasnt all down to Hetherington i remember McD giving the go ahead to sign Krasniqi withhis agent but when he found out they had rung GH to discuss terms before he'd spoke to GH he pulled the plug , he also cut Cross Senior & Ali whilst giving the ok for Vickery & Falloon.

The biggest crime of the MCD era is not any individual player decisions but the lack of succession planning. I don't know whose fault that is but it was criminal and now we are paying the price.

None of which is signed off without Hetherington’s ok.

Mcdermott always came across as arrogant and just plain bloody rude most of the time. As for Singleton and his insinuations he has been very lucky getting a gig at Toronto, when he is plainly championship standard and always has been

a lot of very the senior players interviewed in as good as it gets weren't gushing in there praise of McDermott.
I suspect he was a good coach with a fantastic group of players. no more than that