Haha! Every time Leeds lose McDermott uses his interview to criticise the ref, the opposition coach, the crowd, the RFL. Last night's comments to Rod Studd made him look like a kid who'd gone home to kick the cat after losing a game of marbles. He has zero class.

And just to show this isn't coming from an anti-Leeds perspective, I think the class and professionalism that Kevin Sinfield conducts himself with, whether winning or losing, whether being praised or asked the awkward questions, is without equal.

You clearly don't watch many Leeds defeats.

Are you getting McDermott confused with Wane

That's just a flat out lie. Whenever Leeds lose McDermott comes out and says the opposition were worthy winners, I can't remember a single time when he hasn't praised the opposition. He very rarely mentions the referee or the opposition coach, and I'm not sure why he'd mention the crowd??? One of the things I'm actually very proud of about the Rhinos is the class they show in losing, IMO it's unparalleled and it's coming from the top.

He might be unhappy at the press conference, and if given a specific incident I'm sure he'll criticise like any other coach would (last nights obstruction, Sneyd's 'tackle') but almost without exception he places the blame for defeat at the hands of himself and his squad.

Wane on the other hand rarely has anything but complaints even in victory. maybe you're confusing the two.

He blamed the Catalans crowd for a defeat claiming they influence the ref. Many of your players are very classy and deserve a lot of respect for the way they conduct themselves, but not all, and certainly not your coach.

I have them playing on a loop

When? We beat Catalans away this season...

We haven't lose to Catalans away since 2012 so good recent example their. And I don think he even did that, he did like most SL coaches have done pointed out the penalty counts that Catalans get when they play in France.....and he mentioned that in 2013 AFTER we won there, so it wasn't even a bitter-after-we-lost rant.

Like this thread?

Most of McDermott's moans (especially on refereeing) seem to come after wins, to the extent that I'd speculate he makes a point of biting his tongue after loses and saving up his grumbles.

What a load of tosh. On the rare occasions that my team (Wakey) have beaten Leeds, McDermott never criticised the red but praised the opposition. Against other teams as well I can't recall him complaining. He might say that the 50/50's went against them, but will admit that they got some calls as well.

The Great Ape, however, well, what can be said? It'd be interesting to count how many times he's been fined for post match comments, because you'd probably need a calculator.

Discussion? All I can see is dummies being spat everywhere! Good losers you rhinos fans.

Yep its rhinos fans spitting dummies...



One thing worse than a bad loser... A bad winner

Amazed by the level of outrage over the refs performance.

The obstruction was at least a 50:50 call, sometimes given others not. I'm pretty sure this has happened in lots of games without a 10 page outrage thread. I think the fact that everyone wanted the impressive skill shown by Leeds to be rewarded with a try - tough.

The 'knock on' was easily missed, initially looked like Smiths leg hit the ball. Hardly an outrageous mistake by the ref.

The play before the ref missed a much more blatant leg pull at the play the ball. Not much outrage about that here?

It seems however that Leeds have been the victims on one of the worst referee performance in history!