In defence of Delaney, he apparently left the field concussed (according to Twitter).

Not keeping Delaney might be a no-brainer for next season, but another player who went down was Ward - is this guy ever going to get an extended run in the team? Perhaps he should play a less physically demanding role? It seems Leeds end up losing at least one pivotal player mid-game every week these days.

But I agree an in-depth review of playing staff is needed. It looks like this game won't be the fairy tale return for Sinfield...

I don't reckon there'll be 4-5 quality signings. Too much blind faith in players who are patently not good enough. McDermott was not the biggest problem. Another bad season before the penny drops IMO.

HKR are also reducing the points difference (was -128, now -9icon_cool.gif, while we were (-72, now -94). They are only 2 league points behind us and could be the dark horse to nick 8th now

ward off again !

final 42 - 10

Time for Sinfield and GH to get ruthless with a handful in this team. Ward needs to stop getting injured or he can do one as well. The pack and a lack of a good standoff is the problem.

We look comfortably the worst team in the league at present and in danger of being in milion pound game. We're in desperate need of a mid season signing

Are you being serious?

Not really. He's quality but his luck needs to change

Sorry but i agree, sorry for the lad but spends 2/3 of the season on the physio bed, simply cannot carrying a player so injury prone, he is like Nigel Wright part two, all the talent but biscuit bones.

I thought we looked a whole load better inthe first 20, looked to have shape and goal line defence looked better, then... back to same dire performance as last week, we look unfit, could a change of fitness staff help here?

Were indire need of a decent 6 though

Hetherington is in charge of recruitment at Leeds and he has failed to make the necessary quality signings for several years now. If this continues then the new coaching set up will have the same restrictions as BMD and you can expect little improvement apart from when the long term injured return and they can selected from full strength, a luxury Mac did not have this year.

Where was Garbutt today?

GH has said that Sinfield will be in charge of recruiting going forward

And why on earth did Golding start over Walker

I would not be surprised if Sinfield does a Dean Bell, and puts his boots on to get us out of this !

We need to see the a major cull just like when Powell took over from Lance.

While GH remains in control of the purse strings?

It was never going to be a very quick turn around, but I think this is going to be a long haul. The playing squad simply isn’t good enough, and other than Kallum and Mitch, there wasn’t really anyone missing today that would make a big difference. If we survive in the top 8 (probably need 2 wins, 3 would make it safe) then we need pretty heavy recruitment over the next 3 years to get the squad back up there. Do we have the funds and desire to do that?

This is the very reason why i stated on the sinfield thread that although good he is back its a tough time for him to take charge.a few of his old pals need to be moved on or told time is up. I still hope the plan is to bring in an experienced coach at the end of the year for Sinfield to work alongside for a few seasons.

To be fair there wasn’t many of his old pals out there today, as ive said we look unfit and slow, the only player i can think of that looked any use was Briscoe

Bang on

Interesting that Sinfield said bringing lilley off was to get Walker on the field, personally I would have just straight swapped Walker for Golding who I thought was full of enthusiasm but off the pace today

Notice he selected Walters instead of Cameron Smith on the bench. Smith warmed up as 18th man so must have been fit.

This is the problem with keeping the other coaching staff. Stupid decisions still happening. The brush should have swept through those people.