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nantwichexile wrote:Why are some people - like you - averse to criticising those that make mistakes? Bad mistakes.
Yes Leeds have won GF's the last as recently as 2012, but that is still now history. With a better coach Leeds might have also been successful in 2013 ..we will never know of course.
How long are we meant to stay grateful for past glories at the expense of success today? How long should the club remain loyal to those who have provided that success but are are getting less and less effective in critical positions? If the coach is not responsible for the lack of ideas in the last 20 or 40 , despite a glut of possession, then he IS responsible for the selections for following games. Do you think he will drop those that are responsible? No chance...unless it is an easy target of those he considers fringe players. McGuire in particular is done for. Sutcliffe or Moon should be at SO with Burrow rewarded with the SH position. He remains our biggest threat but is better at jumping in at dummy half on an irregular basis. As the main dummy half he is too predictable. Scoot or bad pass or wrong decision. Better when he jumps in there when not expected. Sinfield to LF ...or another option at hooker
Selecting players to sit on the bench for the whole match is just plain stupid. As I have said before the club would be better raffling the 4th spot on the bench for an eager supporter willing to pay a substantial amount to enter the draw.
McDermott has his strengths as a motivator perhaps, but as a tactician he is hopeless. Leeds are simply not playing to their strengths with the present personnel in command.
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We have lost ONE game this year. ONE. If you think that is enough to sack a manager, then fine. But if that is the case, then we'll have at least 5 new managers every year, it's that simple. "Ooo, our manager made some incorrect decisions before a game we should have won. I know he's been very successful in his time here, but love that, he can mickey right off!"
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fredster23199 wrote:We have lost ONE game this year. ONE. If you think that is enough to sack a manager, then fine. But if that is the case, then we'll have at least 5 new managers every year, it's that simple. "Ooo, our manager made some incorrect decisions before a game we should have won. I know he's been very successful in his time here, but love that, he can mickey right off!"
I Grope Balls wrote:Due to the fact that you have all this spare time on your hands then maybe you could spend a bit more time reading the posts before you reply?
There you go again I didn't state I had lots of time on my hands,I said I am envious of my fellow loiners being able to see all the games.The fact that you have not been on here very often and soon you will depart and you also Reffered to fans of the highest average crowd as whinos and added a silly laughing face suggests you are trolling
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lionarmour87 wrote:There you go again I didn't state I had lots of time on my hands,I said I am envious of my fellow loiners being able to see all the games.The fact that you have not been on here very often and soon you will depart and you also Reffered to fans of the highest average crowd as whinos and added a silly laughing face suggests you are trolling
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I'm no McDermott fan but leaving aside his selection of Ward at centre and unused sub (again) I thought his tactics were spot on. We worked the ruck over, dominated territoriality and won the forward battle by some distance (as we should have with the players missing).
McDermott was let down by his two very experienced halves who failed to take advantage of this and did not feed the outside backs that should have reaped rewards on the back of that display.
Where I would criticise, or perhaps question, is with the halves playing as they were why not bring BJB off the bench at full back and put Hardaker at 6 for a spell.
Quote:Every player in our squad could probably earn more money with another club. But they prefer to sacrifice a few extra quid in their back pocket to share special memories. And playing at a place like Old Trafford on a night like this makes it all worthwhile.
If leeds had won that game last night, people would still be questioning some of mcdermott's decisions.
So all this ''but leeds have lost ONE GAME'' is neither here nor there.
Not using a sub, and using other subs for very short periods means someone else is picking up the workload, and the cumulative effect of that across a season is they wind up flogged when the trophies are handed out.
This is the point. People aren't specifically judging mcdermott so much on results, not at this stage of the season, but on his managment of the squad and the way they are used.
Leeds have some ageing players in important positions. It needs to be managed if they want to be in position to compete in major finals at the end of the season.
So can people STFU going on about how many leeds have lost this season and what trophies they won 2 years ago?
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FlexWheeler wrote:If leeds had won that game last night, people would still be questioning some of mcdermott's decisions.
So all this ''but leeds have lost ONE GAME'' is neither here nor there.
Not using a sub, and using other subs for very short periods means someone else is picking up the workload, and the cumulative effect of that across a season is they wind up flogged when the trophies are handed out.
This is the point. People aren't specifically judging mcdermott so much on results, not at this stage of the season, but on his managment of the squad and the way they are used.
Leeds have some ageing players in important positions. It needs to be managed if they want to be in position to compete in major finals at the end of the season.
So can people STFU going on about how many leeds have lost this season and what trophies they won 2 years ago?
Those are not the issues.
The last point kinda is an issue when people say "we won't be able to win come season end because the players will be too knackered", were his selections so much different back then?
Why won't Saints best player Roby be as knackered as anyone else come September/October....he's done more than 120 tackles more than the next Saints player already this year as well as being their leading metre maker and taken over nearly 60 more carries than their next player.
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ThePrinter wrote:The last point kinda is an issue when people say "we won't be able to win come season end because the players will be too knackered", were his selections so much different back then?
Why won't Saints best player Roby be as knackered as anyone else come September/October....he's done more than 120 tackles more than the next Saints player already this year as well as being their leading metre maker and taken over nearly 60 more carries than their next player.
Well, he might well be knackered by the end of the season. It's happened before. What have Saints won since Cunningham retired and Roby became a 50-tackle, 80-minute player?
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