In the interview on Rammo's podcast Brian said the players probably work too hard in training, but that he'd rather they did too much than too little. Now obviously I'm not a rugby league coach, but I reached a reasonable level running the 100 and 200 metres and the one thing I learnt very quickly from experience is, you ain't going to perform at you're best if you overtrain. Sure it's very different training for RL, but the principal is the same.

do you genuinely believe that?
I suspect if we offered the job out worldwide, a top flight club in London would be an attractive proposition to some quality coaches- My thoughts based on nothing!

In real terms i.e. league positions there is a grave possibility this year that Mac may have taken us backwards. I’m acutely aware there are lots of other factors involved- so it is a cheap shot

THe clubs above us have all (it would appear not having seen the figures) invested much more heavily in their first team squads than we have. hopefully in a couple of seasons our academy will have produced a good proportion of the first team augmented by quality imports. However we are nowhere near that atm and we continually punch above our weight.
I still think this is one of the best, most balanced, and most stable sides we've had in a while, just that other teams - who have years of stability - have improved quicker.

Expectations such as making a playoff system offering 8 PLACES? Memories of 3 seasons of failure?

This is assuming we get tonked by Cas, which we will do.

the overall standard of the league has been increasing, we were as high as 2nd earlier this season, we've been shown to be thin in squad terms towards the back end of the season and also hit a bad losing streak/lack of confidence as a result.

good to see that you're such a died-in-the-wool r/l fan that you're happier shouting for our coach to be removed than looking at why it is our admins can't even get 5,000 people along to the ground to support the team and build our capacity to develop. but what would i know eh? i'm simply casual compared to you........

Rubbish. Higher standard of the league? Is this your first season? The standard has been abysmal this year, the worst that I can recall. Poor games, lack of skill and generally very dull. We were second yes, we were found out, we had a few injuries, we had players come back and we put in 2 more embarrassing performances. You can make as many excuses as you like, you say it yourself, we were 2nd at one point, a few injuries and a bit of a lack of confidence doesn't make a team that were as high as 2nd in the ladder suddenly go into freefall and lose 9 out of 10 games.



Correct, nobody wants to watch a losing side playing the terrible brand of rugby that Brian McDermott is determined to force Harlequins into playing. You are a casual fan yes, I will be renewing my season ticket next year and giving the club the support it deserves.