LMAO!!
It's not as easy as it looks on the tele is it

could tell you some stories about sampson.not a nice man,toe rag in fact.
but not to be told on here

Yes, I agree with you there, but what really stunk about the playoff match against Warrington is that we had been shameful for a long time before that, yet Smith told us all that we play our best rugby in the playoffs.

I did wonder at the time if he had lost the dressing room. Looking back, obviously he hadn't but the thought did cross my mind at the time.

It didn't seem to flow for us in 06 there were a few injuries and departure's aswell.
The biggest thing about the play-off match that disappointed me was the fact we'd put 50 on them a couple of weeks earlier

That one wasn't down to the pack they were awesum..... in defeat.

Just one of those games (a bit like Sunday) where the best team on the day inexplicably find a way to lose.

Told ya

All we need is cummmins as herr flick!!

I think I had to be subbed through laughing so much.

I've erased all details from the memory banks but a Andrew Schick try still lingers.

Dale Fritz in the playoffs

Andrew Schick in the CC. Murrays first CC game.

Both horrible.

both last minute IIRC

It was Murray's first competitive game in charge. I hadn't been so happy with a heartbreaking defeat for a long, long time.

Castleford were pummelled.... into victory.

Yeh,vowles was awesome for them aswell

Ironically, considering last seasons two big wins, we couldn't win in the wet under Murray. I liked Murray but he came over I think for four years to "build" something at Leeds, then after just one year (where we won nothing) he announced he was leaving. I was very dissapointed with that. Smith came for 4 years and really finished the job off at Leeds. We had a nearly season in 05, then an average season with some re-building in 06' (we lost a huge part of the GF winning squad over that time including key players like Furner) which left us in a position to be hunting a third Championship in a row this year. I think Smith really did the job he was asked to do, Murray didn't.

I was sat in some cack hole of a clubhouse in Cheshire watching the end of that game in disbelief. It was the perfect end to the perfect day (I can't remember how many we got hammered by that day). A flat water pint and hair full of mud. Wonderful.

I thought murray was only supposed to be here for 2 yrs

Actually now I come to think of it I remember 5 years not 4. As I remember the North Sydney job came up and he asked to be released (or had a clause that allowed him to take a job in Australia).
Then of course Norths dissapeared along with the job.

Murray like all Hetherington coaches at Leeds (bar Powell - strange that) was signed on initially for 2 years.



It was never that sort of game.

14-Feb-98..... CC 4..... Lost 12 - 15..... Headingley..... John Connolly..... 7,067

You can say that again - ask Brett Mullins

I'd say Mullins got what he deserved in that little episode.

If you watched boots n all last night McDermott's comments on Smith were "Strict disciplinarian who will get to grips with the culture"

Perhaps - but not everyone would have reacted in quite such a physical

manner

his words after the 2005 challenge cup final were somewhat different.

After seeing an angry, fired up Dean Sampson at first hand I think Mullins came off lightly.

First was selecting Senior who couldn't even run in the warm up - so on a very hot day Leeds were effecitevely down to 16 men.

Second not selecting McDermott - his idea of a fast more nimble pack was flawed given the weather conditions and the lack of man power

Third not having the firepower to stand up to big Hull pack that simply bulldozed Leeds all game