Hetherington's only mistake (IMO) was having too much faith in McDermott to transition and develop the team. He took his eye off the ball and wasn't as ruthless as he should have been earlier. McD should have gone in 2015. Maybe the re-development of the ground took too much of Gary's attention - which is understandable, maybe he just got it wrong. Every decision since then has been like watching a disaster movie unfold.
We have to survive this season. Simple as that. The players who have let us down need to be shown the door and we need to rebuild virtay from scratch. Anyone not buying in 100% on and off the field has to go. The league is so poor that if you put out 17 guys who are 100% committed every week you will finish mid table, add some class to that and you'll do well.

How can anyone blame McDermott for hetheringtons recruitment policy I don’t think anyone involved with Toronto is complaining about mac at the miniute.

Well played Halifax today. Who says we cant expand super league....

What a load of shi@ Chester .
i could coach Toronto to Super League .
Mac had a say in RECRUITMENT AND WAS INCAPABLE OF IMPROVING PLAYERS FULL STOP

what's caddicks 5 best city centre deals since being involved at headingley

expand and cancel relegation

Doc
Nail on the head how many other firms tendered for the rebuild.
Who had a chance.
Own pension fund paid for by leveraging the rhinos for decades and spending nowt on decent recruitment.The pair of them have ripped of everyone.
Pioneer rhino Mac had no final say in recruitment believe what you want others know.

Agreed

Agreed

I always liked going to Halifax and always liked their fans .Halifax is a true RL Town and the stadium doesnt look ramshackle either

Watching that game yesterday I kept thinking "would we have won this game?"

There's some laughable bullsh*t posted on here but this is a beaut. You think Yorkshire just nodded through Caddick doing the work? He was willing to do it at a much lower margin than anyone else.

And yes Leeds RL have been a very nice investment for Caddick. That's great for him. That's what happens in business - you take a risk and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

But the only thing that matters, the literal only thing, is: who was there ready to take it all on back in 1996? If you weren't or anyone else wasn't then don't come back 23 years later when we've won eight Grand Finals, been world champions three times and the stadium has been completely rebuilt crying that "we've been ripped off".

Very well said. That post of chesterrhino is one of worst ive ever seen on here

Well said Ghost. The day Caddick and GH took over Leeds was the luckiest day in the clubs entire history. If people cant see that there is little hope for them.

Fantastic post...Agree with every word.

London are stepping up their relegation fight with the signing of Sydney Roosters halfback Brock Lamb. He is due to fly out this week. https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/the-mole-s ... 0d1b1060f0

London are stepping up their relegation fight with the signing of Sydney Roosters halfback Brock Lamb. He is due to fly out this week. https://wwos.nine.com.au/nrl/the-mole-s ... 0d1b1060f0

i never wanted hetherington out in 97 who did have banners ? and have thanked caddick for his quiet involvement . but i said city centre deals , never noticed him building in leeds much before and the playhouse area was on hold for years . then again i never noticed westie dogs till my parents got one

Ghost
You protest to much ?

I suspect this week off will have done us good. The squad has some niggling injuries to it (e.g. Hurrell) and mentally they'll all be fatigued. Then again, you could say the same for all of our rivals.

Will also give Martin more time to adapt - he could be important for us in the run in, especially if Ward doesn't regain fitness.

Wouldn't be surprised to see the new London boy end up with us next year if they still go down and we stay up, and we can move enough on quota and cap.

Ward should be back for the Catalans game.

Time for talking is over the team needs to come together and start showing a bit more desire and fight now.

The performance at Cas was excellent and we then started changing the team around and defensively weve gone to pot since then. We need a similar performance to the effort at Cas on Fri.

There is no excuses, were not stacked with injuries at all, were probably healthiest team in the comp.

The time to perform starts now.

Agreed. I think the 2 week break will be v useful for Lui,Martin etc. Should massively help them settle in and improve the teamwork etc. No excuses now.

Excellent post.

6 games Left ,come on Leeds show a bit of passion