Classic example of what you get when you have a good bunch of players but a hetherington in charge and a "promising" English coach?

Not that good anymore. It's more an example of having a similarly aged good team and while winning stuff, resting on your laurels. Suddenly everyone is that bit too old and the not so good players can't crusie along in the team anymore and get found out. So instead of bringing in a few players you need a big restructure.

Was Hetherington not present when they won the grand final three years in a row?

hopefully they will carry this form into the quarter final

Very much a ageing team now

Will still beat us mind.

not this time!

Same players, different coach. Says it all for me.

Maybe Leeds are shadowing our structure with a nar English coach. Hopefully their fortunes will drop like a stone as ours did. But wil they continue to back Brian Mac if their season ends in failure?

Want to bet......will still have too much for us.

Good to see anyway

I can see them sacking McDermott and a new coach coming in the week before the game at Headingley.

great "Agar Out" thread under a different banner.

The way he looked last night I would hide all the ropes.

I agree with the OP about the coach. They've been a tad unlucky with injuries to youngsters like Watkins who would really give them some pace and strike power but overall they have too many players of a certain ilk, past their best. Take Webb, what a player a couple of seasons ago, he cant even pass a ball backwards these days. Sinfield, Burrow, Senior, Bailey all going in one direction.

I still think McClennan jumped ship,realising age and injuries were about to strike.How anyone can blame Hetherington,considering what they have achieved over the last few years,are deluded!

considering how poor leeds have been this year, is definatly take at least 5-6 of there players over ours..thats the differance in my opinion between us and them, theve been cack, but still are better than us

Who appointed mcdermott?

I'm lost with this one. If you'd take 5/6 of their players over ours then by definition you are saying we have 11/12 better players out of 17 that are better then theirs?

Or have I lost something in translation.

youve lost it in translation... mcquire,burrow,hall,webb,buderus,leuluei,peacock,sinfield would walk into our starting 13 for a start