More people will probably introduce more friends if there was something exciting to offer them when they turned up.

I suppose it depends who the opposition is though!

Based on the last few weeks 'drag a friend along' would probably be a more apt description of the venture!

I do hope next year they perform closer to their potential.

No way to treat a friend.

Problem is we are much much further back now than what we were when McDermott came in. So someone coming in now will have a hell of job on their hands.

Slow steps would have not effected our last few years at all, but massive steps (which is what will be happening now) is a big effect.

To add, the damage done to the academy also from a development and succession level, it's now great for a new coach.

Good one GH.

I ain't doing time for kidnap.

The club is in desperate need of a positive 'feel good factor' news item release right now.

How about a new 5 year deal for the World's Biggest Winger?

Is it a good one gotcha?

Zak Hardaker

Hardaker would be brilliant news

not sure it would help sason ticket sales though.

we need a big signing for that

If you take a step back though from the obvious disappointment at the end of the season, GH will look at the cup win as something he can use for next year. I don't think he necessarily buys into the need for 'big' signings to sell tickets.

What I would be surprised at is if he wasn't well aware of the need to provide more entertaining fare in the league for more of the season. Nobody can guarantee winning anything, but throwing games away is clearly not good enough either.

From a Chief Executive's viewpoint, unless your bottom line is suffering due to on-field performances where's the need for change?

Leeds will have made a few bob out of the Challenge Cup. Gates are pretty steady, albeit not at the giddy heights of 2004, presumably the commercial department keeps ticking over?

So why go out and splash the cash when there's no guarantee you'll get a return on it? Expect a 2015 not remarkably different from 2014 in terms of personnel.

I guess this about not resting on Laurels. In the early 2000s Nokia had a product that everybody wanted. They got complacent and missed the smartphone boom, and as such can't sell a smartphone for love nor money.

Fans are fickle. If they don't feel they are getting value for money, and that may be in temrs of entertainment, or silverware bragging rights they will go elsewhere. The job of GH is to see when the dip is going to happen, and try to prevent it. If its left until next summer to sort out it may be too late regardless of who is announced to start the 2016 season.