For those of you saying Mc.D is right etc & those of us who attended basically got what we deserved i refer you to his pre-match PC then the hypocritical response to the abject bilge his team produced.
Marty as an attendee of these games for years i know full well "what to expect" however what was produced should be unacceptable on every level.
Yes they are generally error ridden with the obvious cobwebs but 95% of the time they produce some reasonable RL.
As for not expecting any structure really?
Again id expect at the very least a basic structure to be produced with or without the ball this was neither & the Coach/Team deserve the pelters they get rather than the fans deserving that garbage.

Not saying fans got what they deserved at all. In fact charging the fans £18 is in my eyes disgraceful.

The game is what it is though. A meaningless friendly in the middle of pre-season. Every year people go and after its always negative comments. Its a mickey mouse meaningless game.

Like i said mate given 2016 & the Coaches pre-match comments i dont think it's unreasonable to expect better than what was produced.

But people pay it and go. Was there near 11000 people there. No ones forced to go.
From the comments we were dross but we were dross all last year and with the quality of recruitment wouldn't have expected anything else.

I agree with you on result, but not on performance. Getting some form of structure is what this game is all about, otherwise what's the point?

All we heard about last year was the pathetic excuses about preseason, floods, spotty, etc. Preaseason was such an excuse for those defending at all costs last year. Wouldn't that surely make this preseason all the more important?

This is it for me. Nobody expects a great performance or great rugby, but you do expect the game to be taken seriously. Pre-season games are for putting into practice what you've been training - a chance for a bit of trial and error. A chance to see how things work when put into practice....

If it's just being used as 'an opposed training session' and the coach/players see it more of a hinderance (that's certainly the impression I've got) then the club are simply using it as a money making exercise and charging £18 doesn't seem reasonable to me.

Leeds lose pre-pre-season friendly with 10 (?) players missing & several new faces making a debut and Southstander goes into meltdown.

Love it.

In the days of winter rugby the boxing day fixture was an important competitive game in the middle of the season.Nowadays very few people take these friendlies seriously.Most media don't even report the results.

As usual you miss the point - the loss is irrelevant it the club taking the p1ss out of its customers after doing the same for the previous 10 months - shows the management are slow on the uptake

You know you aren't forced to go to the match? In fact a key reason many go is just to avoid their families for a few hours over Xmas, not because of the rugby.

The guy has said in previous Boxing Day post match press conferences pretty much the same thing if not worded entirely the same, he's even said he'd prefer as a coach NOT to have a fixture on Boxing Day but has to do it as it's tradition for the club. Also I seriously doubt the guy is in charge of setting the admission cost for the game.