Quote ="tad rhino"leeds,at this moment in time, is a very happy ship.GH is very astute and if he thought that noble would upset all this i'm sure it would have put doubts in his mind.
as for the players opinion on smith i know of at least three,one of whom has said publicly he was great,who despised him.
when the current set of players have retired it could be that more comes out.nobody is going to come out and say the england coach is an incompetant idiot are they'"
Likewise, you are not going to get a group of 25 or so highly competitive individuals (all on different pay structures) fighting for 17 starting places in a team, who are all going to like the boss. Especially when said boss has to tell you occaisionally how $h1t you've performed and that you won't be playing for a few weeks because of it.
There won't be a coach in the history of sport who is "liked" by all his players, and many will in fact despise him no matter how successful the team is and how good he is at his job.
I beleive everything you've posted, I just can't imagine it's different anywhere else (even now with Bluey).
