The Dean Lance era was the most miserable time to be supporting Rhinos in Super League up until 2006.

Despite popular myth all conversations about Leeds don't need to lead back to McD. This is about Lance.

Exactly, lance on paper was a good signing as coach, but after six months it was obvious he was the wrong fit. Hetherington has never been trigger happy with hiring and fireing and has mostly got it right, some signings like delea, Scott Donald looked poor in first season, but then kicked on. He did give lance time to turn things around but it was a mistake to perseavere so long. My reference to mcd in this post was that I hope mcd has gone gone beyond his shelf life.
If mcd can get us back to we're we belong, then hetheringtons faith will be justified and mcd will then finally be regarded as a great coach.

It was you who brought Millward into the mix.Just pointing out that you have got to look at the not so savoury flip side of Ian Millward.With the advantage or the retrospectoscope then GH made the right decision in the long run.FWIW I too thought P Sterling was past his sell by date,and Dean Lance did not have enough coaching experience to take Leeds on in the first place.

The other problem with Lance was that his tenure as coach ended with DP being brought in to coach too early. That was always going to be a huge ask because he hadn't much experience and was coaching players he'd been alongside previously. I never found DP's time as coach particularly convincing, but regardless being dumped in the deep end probably didn't help. I'd have no qualms at all about him coming back again as head coach in the future.

Crikey.



Yes. Don't sign for Leeds and that evil Gary bloke, they'll keep you to your word and make you honour any contracts signed.

Anyone who feels like that, is most likely an Aussie who's run or is running out of options and isn't worth signing.