Best players, worst fans...

Don't blame the coach - blame the players that team should have been good enough

For goodness sake he is the coach he picks the team he coaches them he decides tactics win or lose the buck stops with him .

Yes but as has been said. He put out a team that had a 22 point Lead. In that respect he was doing his job. The players concerned blew it.

Had we never had such a lead, and were constantly chasing, then it would be true, he would be to blame.

God it's embarrassing to be a Leeds fan sometimes with posts like these. IMO McDermott was right to rest a lot of key players ahead of the cup final. In reality winning the hub cap means very little and players like peacock after a big effort against wire needed the rest prior to THE CUP FINAL.

That team were good enough to win today and showed it by being 20 points up at some point. That was a perfect opportunity to play some fringe player and rest a few, against London and people trying to put themselves in a shop window to claim a bench spot. Let's be honest there was plenty of tallent in that team more than enough to win.

Correct.I'm very frustrated we have tossed away 4 points against the bottom 2 sides but some of the reaction is way over the top.The side that played yesterday had internationals and senior squad members throughout and should have comfortably won, and with a 30-8 lead looked like it was going to.

I'm still very confident we will get the job done on saturday and i fully expect when we do that certain posters come on this thread whilst eating some humble pie.

And be replaced by.......?

I think you deserve an award - for the most ridiculous comment ever posted on this board. And there's been strong competition over the last few years!



As has been said many times already this morning by a few sensible posters - blame for yesterday should rest entirely with the players on the field that threw away such a commanding lead.

McDermott got the team selection right IMO. But has been shown time and time again on here, he can't do right with some people. Posters on here cry out for key players to be rested/rotated and Academy players given a chance. So that happens, before A CUP FINAL and we lose what is in the grand scheme of things, a pretty irrelevant game.

So if he'd have gone all out and picked a near full strength team, we end up winning by 50 but at some point Sinfield, or any key player, gets injured - I guarantee you there would be a longer thread than the 'joke' (very aptly titled) one that has so far reached 6 pages. With the same posters bitching and whining that that player shouldn't have played.

Sinfield, Peacock, Burrow and McGuire were never going to play in that game coming a week before Wembley but the rest probably could and arguably should have been selected.

Yet another two points needlessly given away by a club allegedly after top spot.

The club this morning are a laughing stock.

You will of course have statistical evidence to back up your claim?
i suspect that Hull may be even more of a laughing stock after all they haven't a cup final to look forward to or probably even a place in the playoffs.

Are all opinion's expressed on here backed by statistical evidence these days? If not why should mine be any different? Besides which if every non-Leeds fan isn't having a laugh at Hetherington, McDermott, 'Sir Kev', 'the greatest Leeds squad ever assembled' and our (the fans) expence this morning then they are missing a golden opportunity. London's last SL win of any kind was last year, their average result in SL this season before yesterday's game was 14 - 46. At Odsal Hull got turned over by a team in some recent resurgent form under their new coach - makes you wonder what Bradford may have achieved if they'd ditched the always nice but always laid back Cummins sooner? In our own tipping comp 8 entries tipped Bradford to beat Hull (you had Hull to win by 8 - hardly a walk in the park territory then?) viewtopic.php?f=17&t=573005&tsmp=1408365292 Not one entry foresaw a Leeds defeat at winless London - there again only one foresaw a home Leeds defeat to Bradford a few weeks back and modesty prevents me from identifying who that was.

Are all opinion's expressed on here backed by statistical evidence these days? If not why should mine be any different? Besides which if every non-Leeds fan isn't having a laugh at Hetherington, McDermott, 'Sir Kev', 'the greatest Leeds squad ever assembled' and our (the fans) expence this morning then they are missing a golden opportunity. London's last SL win of any kind was last year, their average result in SL this season before yesterday's game was 14 - 46. At Odsal Hull got turned over by a team in some recent resurgent form under their new coach - makes you wonder what Bradford may have achieved if they'd ditched the always nice but always laid back Cummins sooner? In our own tipping comp 8 entries tipped Bradford to beat Hull (you had Hull to win by 8 - hardly a walk in the park territory then?) viewtopic.php?f=17&t=573005&tsmp=1408365292 Not one entry foresaw a Leeds defeat at winless London - there again only one foresaw a home Leeds defeat to Bradford a few weeks back and modesty prevents me from identifying who that was.

My comment to you was tongue in cheek but you are so po-faced you didn't or couldn't see it that way.
In future to make such lighthearted or facetious comments clear I'll append a smiley face.
HTH

Like or loathe the coach, there is only so much he can do. That embarrassing last 20 minutes was 100% down to the players on the field and their lax attitude. Nobody talking to each other, nobody showing any leadership, nobody taking hold of the game and closing it off, nobody showing any urgency etc etc. These are things that during the game a coach has little or no control over. The game was lost long before London's last try. The players simply stopped putting any effort in.

On these boards?

"I don't believe it...!"