Mac will complete his 5th season as head coach this year.That is a season more than his two successful predecessors Smith and Bluey infact will probably make him our longest serving coach as far back as i have watched Leeds in the mid 80s so he is probably coming to the end of his time with us now.If not this year then certainly at the end of the next it will surely be time to freshen things up.For the record i think he has done a fine job during his time so have no agenda on him staying or going.He obviously thinks he can do both jobs so good luck to him and i reckon if he fails to make it work then it will hasten his departure from us which will probably please a lot on here so don't see the issue

I know. What an egotistical idiot he is. That kind of setup will never work.

I know, we did so much better in the regular season when we had Lowes as assistant.

You're wasting your time, some people just love to be outraged by stuff the club does.

Some people will complain about anything.

Jesus H. I hope some of these are trolling efforts. If not I'd have to question the mental ages of the some posters.

Actually, either way I'd have to question the mental ages of some posters.

Did Kieran Cunningham have help from an assistant coach to bring out that Saints performance last Friday night?

Did Kieran Cunningham have help from an assistant coach to bring out that Saints performance last Friday night?

Interestingly the Leeds Rhinos facebook page (presumably Phil Daily) actually bothered to respond to one comment along similar lines to some of the posts here



So he has TWO assistants? No wonder he can take on the USA job the part timer.....

Plus Jason Davidson and the most experienced and successful group of senior players in SL.

Until recently we were happy with a SL head coach also running the England team, which is a monumentally bigger and more complicated job than USA head coach.

Basically McDermott has taken on a part time job for when he's not coaching Leeds. Most people work Monday to Friday, if someone takes on a Saturday job too then what's the problem?

When you think after over a century people in England complain about us bringing in teams in London or Oxford, but the US manage to run teams from boston to Atlanta to florida. Its a monumental effort from those guys, and fully deserving of the game over here doing whatever it can to help.
Good luck to Brian, Good luck to the hawks.

Oh I get it, now Leeds are currently winning so everyone has swept aside their disapproval of McDermott. I'm sure just a few weeks ago when McDermott chose to play with just two subs everyone was up in arms and calling for this head?Typical fickle southstander. If Wigan hand our backsides to us tomorrow this forum will be in up in arms. All along I have backed McDermott at Leeds (and still do) I just call for him to have a decent No2. So on the whole my issue is not about McDermott taking on the USA job, its with him having no assistants and trying to oversea a huge transitional period. Barry Eaton and Chris Plume, come on....you're kidding right?