no chance. We want him - you can have Cunningham.

Hear, hear! Lot's of over reaction on here it's almost as if some posters enjoy seeing us fail they are so quick (too quick IMO) to turn on certain players and the coach

I'm as gutted as the next man to lose last night and really fancied us for the win, but, we didn't, let's recruit one or two and go again next year NTW

He made a couple of runs without fear for his own safety that caught the eye and most thought that we have a raw recruit an impact player that might help the cause when Hill went off. Sadly it never got any better and that early season promise, perhaps looked upon too fondly due to comparatives with his predecessor a certain South Sea Islander on big bucks, never materialised.

Wigan have a very strong team ethic which was highlighted at the end of their semi with the pictures from the dressing room. Wane banging the drum and all the staff and player's joining in the singing. Admittedly not everyone's cup of tea, but it did show a real strong team togetherness, nothing was going to stop them winning the GF.

Ten Wigan born players with a Wigan born coach who knows all his players as soon as they join the Academy. The contrast to our club is startling.

That's always been Smith's weakness for me in that he doesn't get that togetherness and spirit in his teams like others do. At Leeds we won in 2004 because we were so much better than everyone else that year. When others came back at us the next couple of years we didn't win anything until we did a number on Saints in the '07 GF and many would say it was knowing Smith was leaving that helped us that year.

It took him 3 attempts to win that 2nd GF and I don't think we'd have repeated in 2008 & 2009 under him as McClennan came in and brought a togetherness into the squad and that's when we started to win the close tough ones as sometimes underdogs. McDermott carried that on and victories like the playoffs semis vs LLS winners you and Wigan both away from home in 2011 and 12 are not ones I think Smith could've won for us. Likewise the final 3 games of last year I'm not sure Smith would've seen us through them when we were struggling post Wembley.