We have a 19% win record since last June.

Bit of both.......

Results have been poor for too long now and the coach has to take responsibility, but there's been a lot of bad luck on the way with injuries etc and I feel that he is a better coach than he's shown here.

You haven't exactly got a star-studded squad though, and you've also had bad injuries.

At times you can play some good rugby though, and you managed to beat Wigan this season.


Maybe i'm just trying to see the positives though, as I can't see why our board would chosse Brian Mac over Mick Potter.

Very relieved.

Not many teams outside the 'usual' top 6 can boast talent like LMS, Orr, Dorn, Purdham, Clubb & Randall together. Throw in the Scott Hill's, Henry Paul's, Mark Mclinden's we've had at our disposal and a finish in the bottom half is simply not good enough. We're looking at the very real possibility of finishing bottom this year.

Big Mac has coached the talent out of our talisman players; regardless of injuries, we look poor in every avenue.

Expect second half capitulations in most games, as well as a poor finish to any season regardless of flying high early on.

Oh, and if you get spanked by 50 points or more, you can be very proud and happy of the performance, because next week you'll 'take the positives' and 'build on that'...and get beaten by 50 again.

Can't wait to see the back of the man.

But god help you Quins, appoint someone half decent. If Walters gets his foot in the door, then we can kiss goodbye to London RL for a while.

Good luck at Bradford Brian, good luck to the Bulls fans too but not on Friday.

Are things really gonna start looking up? Skolars win and a new coach (not Walters please!)

Worryingly the papers are tipping Potter for the Bulls-Please God take Mac away from London-His tenure as head coach has been the worst period I have had to endure as a London RL fan. I was only thinking yesterday how much I haven't enjoyed watching RL over the past 12 months. I dont even expect a great deal, but what he dishes up is unacceptable-I understand our finacial limitation etc

Good ridence

As someone who doesn't think that changing the coach is the solution to any club's woes, and who supported Tony Rae against all comers my reaction to the potential departure of Brian McDemott is YIPPEEEEEE

McDermott for me is not a coach, he was pushed into the role too quickly, some people are just made to be assistants, we can't all be generals!

I'm fairly resigned to what ever changes take place. I don't think McDermotts a terrible coach but then I don't see how things can get much worse. I'm forseeing a lot of personnel changes next year and the only thing that worries me is if we will have the money to afford high standard replacements for all the people moving on.

I agree with this.

I wouldn't be suprised if he did go, got to look out for his future and earn money for his family etc. I can't see there being a Quins RL for too many years to come. I'm not wishing to sound pessimistic, but David Hughes is approaching retirement very soon (as far as I've been informed) and won't then have money to keep paying our bills. I'm pretty sure Sky money only just covers the players wages...everything else Mr Hughes funds.

I think all but the most exceptional coaches have a "shelf life" in a particular role, after which they are unlikely to take the club any further in the right direction. My feeling is that Mac has done all he can with Quins and is now treading water at best. The first half of last season represented real progress results wise, but after the customary mid-season injury crisis halted us in our tracks a more worrying downward trend seemed to manifest itself and we've never been quite the same since. There was a brief revival kickstarted by the magnificent win at Wigan, but that seems to have fizzled out again, and it's now something like six wins from about the last thirty Superleague matches.

With regard to signing players and paying their salaries there are two obvious disadvantages for our club which are only really shared by Catalans amongst our rivals. Twelve of the other fourteen clubs wishing to sign players from each other can usually do so without the player concerned having to move house; and enticing any player down here from one of those clubs probably requires us to offer a generous salary increase to compensate for higher cost of living in the London area. Hence an average seasoned Superleague player like Oliver Wilkes apparently got an offer with which his previous club simply couldn't compete. (And hence we're probably close to the salary cap without making real star singings recently.) However, there has to be another coach out there who can improve the situation even with these obvious constraints under which we operate. Whether or not we can find him is another matter, but I think we've now reached a stage where we need to be proactive and give it a try. Mac may well go to another club and have a new lease of life; I think a parting of the ways is begining to look mutually beneficial.