Excellent player. Never struck me as a particularly nice guy though.

Over rated and played with 16 other stars to make his name.

Doesn't really come across well and very Shaun Edwards like.

Edwards was class though. All Sinfield could do is kick a ball and drop goals !

Yes because Sinfield dropped the news on the club at the last minute just before the announcement was made instead of coming to the club and talking it through and letting the news settle amongst the squad. The news that your legendary captain is retiring/moving to RU is a huge deal that can effect the squad and we were fighting for the treble.

Did McDermott drop Peacock, Leuluai, McGuire or Burrow when they announced their leaving? No because they didn’t selfishly go behind the clubs back and announce it at the last minute before it came out.

People should watch As Good As It Gets, Sinfield shows how bitter he was about being dropped (even though 2 years had passed since this was filmed). It was for 2 games yet he made it sound like he was training on his own for half the season and that he kept a diary about everything that went on that year after that but won’t say what because “things should stay in the dressing room”....yet he had the hypocrisy to publicly call out the culture and quality of the squad as soon as he was hired to win over fans and stick it to McDermott rather than keep those thoughts “in house”.

Problem with having legendary players is that certain people involved at and with the club look at them with rose tinted glasses. That’s why Sinfield got rushed into this role, does anybody really think Hetherington of all people wanted to pass over a lot of his responsibilities mid-season to somebody else? No but it was forced upon him by others at the club.

I think you are being unfair on him as a player. He wasn't the most talented but he made up for that with his determination and his mental strength. He was a winner and I am certain Leeds wouldn't have been as successful without him.

He always talked a good game about respect for the opposition and referees etc. But he rarely came across as genuine imo. I think he is a very selfish and cut throat person. That's not necessarily a bad thing in sport, but I can imagine a lot of players not getting on with him.

Think he use to be fine but along with some other players of our golden period they’ve had so much smoke blown up their backsides and they’ve bought into the lie created by anti-McDermott Leeds fans that it was all down to the players and haven’t appreciated the huge roles GH, McDermott, McClennen and Smith had in our success.

Interesting that earlier this year Danny McGuire said that Leeds have for a while now been a player led club....well if that was the case when Sinfield was captain he can’t complain about culture & ethos and when players he wants rid of won’t play for him or his choice of coach. He and other senior players apparently more than had their say in the departures of Smith and McClennen.

Utter nonsense.

Hes doing a great job, whats the problem ???

I have seen some ridiculous threads on here but never as many made up stories , untruths and possible libelous accusations .

Its usually always a bad sign when a club employs a "Director of Rugby", Jamie Peacock was one but didn't last long, maybe Sinfield will still have the job whilst everything is falling down around him.

Such an over rated player bar goal kicking.

JP let them teams and Maguire and Burrow made them tick.

Seems to terrible in his current role too.

Christ, if Sinfield was average and overrated, what does that make the likes of O'Louglin and Wellens?

I don't get why so many are making out that it's just Sinfield fault, The fault with Leeds is totality collective Board,Coach,Players it's not all Sinfield fault there have not replaced with quality players with the likes of Peacock,Maguire,Burrows,Hall,Ali,Leuluai,Maybe now there do it's just a matter of how long will it take to get that quality back in a leeds shirt.
I'm not one to ravel in the situation leeds find there self in because as a Wakefield fan we have got all the T-shirts on that one.


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