Terrible decision by Hetherington. Toulouse, Toronto up, Widnes, Leeds down. But the RFL wouldn’t allow that surely.

Fev? Halifax? Will both fancy their chances of MPG

I personally think that Hetherington is using McDermott as a scape goat for his lack of player investment. Gone are the days where players were willing to be paid peanuts just for the glory of wearing a Leeds shirt and the recruitment at Leeds over the last few years has been shocking!!

But is it GH that wont spend or PC? Maybe they know about the league structure in future seasons?

Agree with you Karen, I think Hetherington is guilty of trying to keep RL in the backwater and thats unfortunately what seems to happening to Leeds now.

The recruitment under GH over he past few years has been very poor and they have lost a huge amount of talent and quality but simply not replaced it. On top of that their youth system does not seem as prolific as it has been in the past either and a good majority of senior players are nearing the end of their player days.

Maybe this in one reason why GH doesn't like the idea of SL growing its brand and selling itself? Whilst GH has done a lot for the game and Leeds as a club maybe its also time he moved on as he's a relic.

Seems poor timing to sack McDermott now with nobody else coming in either.

Definitely Gary being tight, where do you think Kath got it from! Unfortunately for him, he's being found out as the golden era who played for the love of the club have all retired.

I am vomiting at the idea that Kath is tight or otherwise!

I read an exotic pamphlet with a chapter entitled
Tight Thai ~~~~~

Got to laugh at the idea of Hetherington being either tight when it comes to investing in the team (£150k transfer fee for Brett Ferres!) or some sort of protectionist dinosaur. He's paid more transfer fees than anyone else in the league, it's just his best investment has been in the youth side.

As the only person in the game who has founded an expansion team and made it a success and run a big establishment team and made it a success and is one of the few on the SL side who doesn't need to make a selfish grab for more cash his views are probably worthy of more weight than others.

utter garbage, jog on troll

Hey Ghost, got to agree with a little of that post, but correct me if I’m mistaken, the “ten year policy” which has been used by Leeds so well, has probably also been their Achilles heal so to speak, as with Burrow Mags Watkins Sir Kev Ryan Hall and others, Leeds have been able to manipulate the fifty percent discount cap for ten year service and has been able to sign a nigh complete Australian pack, presumably using the extra cash available because of this system, nothing wrong with this, but it has also made Leeds keep players longer than they needed. The part of your post I don’t agree with is the wise investment of youth, Sinfield and Watkins are Lancashire lads, as Singleton is a Cumbrian, which players would you say in all honesty, in this present Leeds team, do you think will reach the standards of these great players.