Tell me Sam Walters is leaving, without telling me Sam Walters so is leaving.

Today - appaulling and no s given.

I didn’t think Roberts played that bad but to be fair i was so high up in the stands I couldn’t really tell, im not watching it back to find out

I`m not convinced with Smith but I do think he will last the season mainly on the basis that with injuries to Newman, Simpson, Sezer, Gannon, Lisone and Tetavano and more recently Holroyd.
Not many coaches would get a lot of those players remaining in the squad.
Roberts and Olpherts below average, Hooley played one game and MacDonald slightly above average along with Lisone and Sangare.
No real quality in our team or the players he has brought in.

I was going to mention wigan and they were poor though their league position gives them much more credit to play with than us.

Fuck my life.

What the ing hell was that.

Embarassing s.

I agree but they looked really poor to me, they could easily start slipping down the table and be joining us if they don’t pick up.

I still think we can get into the playoffs but with our injuries it’s starting to look like a tough ask.

Smith won’t be going this year (rightly IMO), sorry to disappoint some in here.

By the way that was not what I typed.

We may still make the playoffs but I doubt it with the low level of so many performances.

Wire, cats, Wigan and Saints will be in, can we catch Salford and Leigh and get past HKR? Not playing like we do away from home most games.

Smith looked a worried man near the end, like a rabbit in the headlights and he is under pressure now. He’s signed a number of players who are not good enough, our last captain has walked out and he can’t persuade young players to stay(I’m not convinced about Walters or Tindall but fact is we offered deals and Both are leaving).

He can’t seem to arrest entire halves of abysmal, error strewn, brain dead play.

If we make the play offs the game needs to scrap the play off system. I like the grand final but it has killed the CC and for a team like Leeds with no attacking structure whatsoever to make the play offs would be embarrassing. Smith has 3 games into next season for me. If we're still this bad we need a change.

Going into the game I suspected it was no better than a 50 - 50 given the amount of players we had out (before Holroyd's late withdrawal) and the massive improvement any game against Leeds brings out of Cas. But boy that was dreadful! 13 minutes to defend a 10 point lead against a poor team and we couldn't summon the professionalism to do it. I would have taken an ugly win this week, but were not good enough to manage even that. Come on, Rohan - sort it out.

We're not getting into the playoffs this year and nor do we deserve to. 14 games in and still producing dross like tonight irrespective of injuries is not acceptable and very worrying.

It’s simply not good enough for a club of our stature. We’ve gone backwards this year big time

Need to draw a line under it. Don’t let it ruin people’s weekends.
I’ve played and watched sport my whole life and I’m 42 now. Far more disappointments than achievements in both amateur and professional sport.
Leeds will come good again. May take another few years, but will definitely happen. Keep the faith!

Perfectly put Seth

Marvin Golden was nowhere near Olpherts standard

Olpherts is Joe Vickery bad.

Interesting comment from Smith when interviewed.
Saying we have been narrowly beat in a few games but it is a result based competition or words to that effect.
Maybe he knows that he is now on thin ice losing 5 out of the last 6 regardless of us losing narrowly.

You've been right about him all along, Batley. Fair play. He's a genuine liability.

Good day out up in Newcastle, kids were flag bearers so enjoyed it regardless.

Can’t even be ar$ed to get into the performance but Olpherts was a disgrace in every department. Not alone I know, but he should never wear a Leeds jumper again.

Rohan out of his depth, sooner he’s gone the better for me.

For me that was a selection loss. We select Handley on the wing Hooley at FB; or Tindall wing and I think we win that game.

One thing that triggers me is rubbish defence and both edges were really fragile at times.

Oledski had his best game for a while though and McDonnell continues to impress me.

Smith had his hands tied in recruitment and tried to do the best he could with the budget he had and one or two have been good; but not the right selection for me again tonight.

Having said that our injury situation is savage again.

Agree that some selections are not working. Handley might want to be a full back but is nowhere near - being a strong runner just isn't enough. Martin isn't a centre, and Myler isn't a halfback. Smith said earlier in the season that he picks the best players regardless of position, and he does that. But we're ending up with imbalanced teams and players with no muscle memory of the position they're in.

Another huge problem is individual errors. Far too many players are making bad errors, often with their first touch of the ball. Some mistakes will happen, but it speaks of a slack mindset as a group when so many are being made. Stop patting each other on the back when it happens and go James Graham on them.

We need to look at Hooley or Sinfield coming in next week. If he doesn't change things we'll just keep losing. As it is we may already be too far off the pace to make the play offs, as if Leigh and Sts both win we'll be 4 points off even 7th. Making up that ground will need us to start winning most of our games from now on, but also for the wheels to fall off more than one team currently ahead of us.

I still support Smith, and I understand what he was trying to do with respect to recruitment given the constraints he had in the off-season, but at the moment this season looks like its going to just wither to nothing, and its really poor that we can seemingly play hard and compete with the top teams but lose in awful games to teams below us in the table.

I read a post by a Castleford fan saying Olpherts was the best bit of business they did and Leeds now pay him, funny that we thought the same when we got rid to Cas, every time the ball went up in the air to him you had your head in your hands knowing he was going to knock on or create some kind of catastrophe. He was named Derrell AWFUL at Salford.

As for the other fella Roberts we got rid of him to Swinton, say no more.

The squad is not up to standard, even the low standard Super League has now.

Its not the coach who makes the signings at Leeds, but the coach is the one who gets sacked when the one who does make the signings feels the pressure from the fans. A decade and a half of decline.

A decade and a half? Eh?

JJB has an agenda!! Him now being on the board at Leeds does not bode well for Smith.

The culture of the club needs to move on from the golden generation and it probably needed a coach with a history of delivering that ie putting his own imprint on the rugby side of things. Smith was a punt and no doubt at a discount to the likes of Peter Green. Unfortunately he is still on a huge learning curve and is SL is biggest club the correct place for that?

I have repeatedly on here all you want is the players to play to their potential win or lose - this so rarely happens you have to question the coaching set up. A young coach needs experience around him - where has Grix coached prior to Leeds? Playing players out of position doesn't work nobody gets settled in a pattern - why persist?

Yes recruitment has been poor but that squad should be able to be the likes of Leigh and Castleford and be somewhere near the playoffs - sadly not going to happen. I am not for moving Smith on just yet but he needs to see improvement in the basics and desire of the players to deliver for him