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Quote: HyperbolicRhino "I guess I must be in the minority, but I'm not overly worried at the moment. An unavoidable fact about the competition nowadays is that, other than perhaps the odd derby / top of the table game, the only time you're really going to see two sides going at each other full tilt is in a big cup match or a play off match. Beyond that, there are more often than not motivational factors which lead to one side being more "up" for the game than the other, and so far this season we've had three of those games (Saints just after the players had got what they wanted and got their coach sacked and now had the coaching team they wanted in place, Bradford in their supposed "last game ever" with a huge crowd and emotion running higher than ever, and Hull with a point to prove after the spanking they took from Wigan, numerous players back, an extra week off prior to the game, and fans worked up into a frenzy over the whole Briscoe/Pearson/Hetherington thing). Add to that our other two losses (at Wigan a week before the WCC on a night when not very much went our way at all, and against a strong Huddersfield team when we were missing the likes of Webb, Burrow and McGuire, and hence a large percentage of our creativity) and one could suggest that none of these losses were massively unexpected.

Obviously you have to factor in the fact that Leeds played badly in all of these games, but we have to accept during the regular season that sometimes there are going to be games when, for whatever reason, the other team simply wants it more than we do. Obviously, as fans, we want the team to play their best in every game, and over the past couple of years there have been numerous times when we haven't seen this, but I still don't think there's anything to be too worried about (for example, I certainly don't think we've been anywhere near as bad this season as Saints were in the month or so when the majority of their players seemed to be going out of their way to get Simmons sacked!).

I may be stupidly naive, but I genuinely think that, with a full strength team, when we're on our game, there's not a team in the league we're not capable of beating, and as such our season is far from being a write off. Caddick and Hetherington are about as far from being mugs as it gets - their faith in McDermott and the team paid off handsomely last year, and who on earth are we to question what they are doing this year and demand radical changes left right and centre? To judge the team so harshly on the back of the Hull game is crazy! We have a lot more big game performances still to come this season, and I remain hopeful that we will win something. If we don't? So be it - we have no divine right to win anything, and if we don't it will be because someone better than us did. I would still rather have our squad than any other squad in the league!'"

Pretty much this.