I'm not exactly bothered if Mac goes or stays. If you look at the clubs that are at the top (Wigan, Saints, Leeds, Warrington) they all have massive strength in depth in terms of their squads. Tony Smith has created a huge squad full of quality at Wires, with each player playing for his position. If there's an injury, they have players of almost equal quality coming in to plug the gaps. Ditto Leeds- you saw how they outclassed us even with quite a few of their best players out.

If you look at a team like Catalans, they have similar problems to us in that they've had a lot of injuries and lack the strength and depth.

However, injuries permitting, we do have a squad that can be in the top half of the table, as shown last season. Their have been flashes of that quality this year, but we're clearly heading in a downward trajectory. Maybe a better coach could get better results out of a, at times, threadbare squad? Or at least instiute signings and sacking that would move the club forward...

The tone we play? Over this season, I have only been frustrated by our overall performance once, and that was when we got beat at home by Salford. Our game plan has been effective to an extent - people complain that the forwards aren't setting the platform, but to me they are, and its our backs that are letting us down big style.

You think another coach would do a better job re: players, training plan etc? Clutching at straws springs to mind. If we are talking about accountability than whoever appointed McDermott should take responsibility.

Thank you BroncOnIon, this is exactly what I was getting at.

Henry Paul? Are you having a laugh?

Who cares about the shirt! It makes 0 DIFFERENCE. We are Harlequins RL, we should wear a Harlequins shirt for a prolonged period of time and people will begin to accept it, rather than shifting back to the colours of two failed eras that have no association to our current club whatsoever.

I notice that the team are practically IMMUNE from any criticism on here. In fact, I don't think I've seen a bad word written about any of our players all season, yet we are practically bottom of the league. But yes, of course, it must be Brian McDermott's fault

He has no strategy and no consistency so how can we expect that from the team. They are not played in the same positions three weeks in a row. Look at Senior for Leeds or Cunningham for Saints. They play consistently in position and DELIVER!
Dorny and Orr in the miiddle were brilliant - a couple of times. At HKR where was Dorn?? Lighthouse duty!!!!??
McDermott is not as committed as he was at the beginning. Maybe his family living up north and him being down here is something to do with it but
please
give up or get on with it. We deserve better. Who can blame the young un's if Bl**dy O**iah comes round with £ signs in his eyes and a contract for up north.
that's it - rant over

The threads about BM staying or going, not the team. As far as the team goes I think most supporters accept that with few exceptions we have very average players supported by inexperienced and as yet unproven youngsters. There has been plenty of negative comment since the middle of last season about the abilities of some players and the players BM has brought to the club. I know it`s boring but as has already been stated this is the team that BM has put together which he is responsible for coaching the best out of, so the buck stops with him. I am not sure why we should be keen to retain a coach with such an awful track record (20% success rate). BM came to us as an assitant coach, not the finished article and with everything to prove.......despite the good press he always gets on SKY we have been in a steady decline and I am not sure he has proved that he is a quality head coach with huge potential......if anything probably the opposite.

Why does David Hughes never say a word about what is going on at the club? It defies belief that somebody is prepared to fund a sinking ship to such an extent without seeming to give a damn about how bad things actually are.

Tough one this. If PB has a minimal budget for promotion, then it is his job to ask for this to be increased. He is the GM of the business and should know, better than anyone else, what is needed to make the club more self sufficient. DH controls the purse strings, but surely he must see that just filling the gap at the end of each year is not the way forward........he should be prepared to fork out say 50 grand as a central marketing budget, with another 15k per game, allocated at the start of the season. This (I am sure that I will get the maths wrong....but here goes anyway...) will provide a pot of around 250k for the season.
This money (and it's a fair chunk of change by comparison to what has been available before IMO) would give the marketing department buying power....in that they wouldn't be looking to get the best deal at the expense of less exposure. That said, the marketing department should not get all giddy and waste cash on London Newspapers, but concentrate on the local population......it's all well and good spending 10k on a page in Metro, but that 10k spent locally will get a better ROI in my opinion.

I believe that PB has tried his hardest this year to make a silk purse etc.......but as wire-quin has pointed out, the buck stops at the top of the food chain and that's where he is.

Lastly.....I did want the marketing job at Quins RL, but looking back at my posts from the last 2 years or so, I would think it's fair to say that I have been busy with the swan vestas beside that particular bridge

voted, but could just as easily not have done - so bored with this lot have I become.
On the whole we are the most dull side in the league - even a kear coached wakey look more exciting than we do most of the time.
If all we can do is grind it up the field in one out rugby than why would fans pay to watch it. Its boring and all we do is lose.
tactically its comical - lost count of the times when the suns been blinding bright and we've....grubbered it into the shade. ...jokes