he does. So will most of the other knee jerkers that start posting.

They HAVE to blame someone when we lose a game and McLennan is just too "like-able" to carry the can at the moment - though they're even shifting in that direction now.

I hope the coach and the players have bigger sweetbreads than our fickle fans.

It is much like 1999 .... Graham Murray had built up a great Leeds side, on worthy of taking on any team in the league and beating them. That team gave its all, up to 2/3rds of the way through the season.

Had the coach been backed, with the masses of cash that a win at Wembley would have made us (other than the signing of Keith Senior) and brough a couple more faces in to help a pack that was running in empty, we could have made a serious challenge for the double.

As it was, the chequebook stayed firmly in the back pocket and we then had a couple of years of nothing much to show for it under Lance ....

We better get looking and looking fast for anyone down under that might be available and that doesn't have a string of parking offences and the like.

Salary Cap? Just that Lean Dance was a wally coach (Murray was a hell of a hard act to follow IMO)? Maybe? (serious questions)



Get in the queue...!

you are Paul Sterling and I claim £5

Cheque's in the post! (Will double it for a teeny edit to that sig...? )

I would sing someone else if I knew the words !

Was the salary cap in place then ?

The point was, they need not have been world-beating players, just ones we could have slotted in to take the pressure off other members of the playing staff.

Is this an 80s retro thread?

Not really, there's just a need to do now what should have been done during the off season. Only now it could be an expensive exercise except as our CEO recently stated [i"I believe it’s an extremely talented group of players who can achieve our objectives this season.”[/i

Our objectives presumably being to not defend our WCC title, be knocked out of the CC at home at the first hurdle, lose to Bradford at Odsal for the first time since 2003 and lose at home to Salford for the first time since 1977.

1999, IIRC? Same time as Lean Dance came? Again, from memory so happy for someone to improve on that.

Ok, that's fine for Bradford, but what about Leeds? (I'd add a but its not really a joke...)

Wouldn't matter who we signed, the "come on fellahs, rah rah rah" ran out of steam. Murray was done.

And the reference to the 1980's should be an indication that the "chequebook" is no guarantee of preventing any of that happening.