I don’t think it was gross overestimation at all.

We’d been ambitious throughout the 00’s in signings with Peacock, Ellis. Lautitti, Webb, Buderus, Bai,Leuluai and Eastwood

In August 2010 Hetherington outlined the exact plans for the ground we’ve finally achieved now
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 925235.stm
The South Stand was condemned around that same time and McDermott gets the top gig and austerity kicks in at Headingley. 8 years after those plans highlighted by GH and after plenty of battles with Leeds City Council over getting the work done with our original plan of selling land in Tingley and Weetwood shot down we’ve got the work pretty much finished and know how it’s getting paid for.....and low and behold the chequebook and ambition signings look to return.

McDermott’s hiring coincided with the South Stand being condemned and the stadium needing to be done. He rode out plenty of storms and calls for his head and convientky the axe fell when the stadium work was coming to be completed and sorted just for another guy who wouldn’t have come under such tight chequebook purse strings to take over.

McDermott was never a huge fan of youngsters and preferred experience and to think he was happy to just have the likes of Sutcliffe, Handley, Golding, Lilley to take over is naive People blame him for the squad we have saying he was involved in recruitment but do you really think he walked into GH’s office with a transfer list with the names of Ormondroyd, Aston, Mullally and Yates at the top of it.

People thinking the last few years at Headingley was just taking the eye of the balls or oversight need to wake up.

I don’t think it was gross overestimation at all.

We’d been ambitious throughout the 00’s in signings with Peacock, Ellis. Lautitti, Webb, Buderus, Bai,Leuluai and Eastwood

In August 2010 Hetherington outlined the exact plans for the ground we’ve finally achieved now
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 925235.stm
The South Stand was condemned around that same time and McDermott gets the top gig and austerity kicks in at Headingley. 8 years after those plans highlighted by GH and after plenty of battles with Leeds City Council over getting the work done with our original plan of selling land in Tingley and Weetwood shot down we’ve got the work pretty much finished and know how it’s getting paid for.....and low and behold the chequebook and ambition signings look to return.

McDermott’s hiring coincided with the South Stand being condemned and the stadium needing to be done. He rode out plenty of storms and calls for his head and convientky the axe fell when the stadium work was coming to be completed and sorted just for another guy who wouldn’t have come under such tight chequebook purse strings to take over.

McDermott was never a huge fan of youngsters and preferred experience and to think he was happy to just have the likes of Sutcliffe, Handley, Golding, Lilley to take over is naive People blame him for the squad we have saying he was involved in recruitment but do you really think he walked into GH’s office with a transfer list with the names of Ormondroyd, Aston, Mullally and Yates at the top of it.

People thinking the last few years at Headingley was just taking the eye of the balls or oversight need to wake up.