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5 minutes ago, plug said:
Zak has always said and said it himself in a interveiw not many months ago that he would want to end his playing days back at fev could we do the unthinkable and sign him now could big mc get him onboard ???
There's not many coaches who know him better than Mcdermott so if they could somehow afford him he would be very well placed to be able to say yes or no as to whether it's a good idea.
Very much doubt he would come back to Leeds but unlike at Cas his departure wasn't that acrimonious, more very weird, so maybe. I strongly felt Leeds should have sacked him after the assault and then the homophobic thing - like any other employee would have been. If they overlooked those then maybe they think they can still employ him despite even more black marks since then.
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Willing to give him a chance. When we went with a supposed big name last time it ended badly. Smith and Mcdermott were not greatly lauded at the time they were appointed - albeit with a bit more top flight head coach experience - and did well. Let's hope Hetherington's coach-finding antennae still function effectively.
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That's a genuinely shocking statement from someone who is careful with what he says. Can't recall him ever having a dig at anyone internally at the clubs he's left before (he had a mild go at Leeds fans after his last Headingley home game but taking the dirty laundry out in public is unprecedented).
KR fans must be gutted.
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12 minutes ago, Tony Angelino said:
What’s the likely limit for each club?
Let's generously say maybe 5k neutrals or fans of the women's finalists. Think capacity now is 36k so each club would have up to about 8k available. But in reality they can all probably have as many tickets as they ask for.
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I'd like to see the OP recruit someone for any very senior role, potentially from the other side of the world and probably under contract, in less than a month.
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5 hours ago, Scubby said:
Easter Monday is not providing any boost in attendances - in fact regular weekly attendances are often better. Imagine if this B/H Monday had been Leeds/Hudds... You would have got 4/5k more at Headingley
Based on what?
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We've said it before and will again - this system for the video ref is really truly appalling. The on field ref doesn't know so why give them any say in it?
When they brought it in they managed to change something which wasn't broken and which nobody was calling for.
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21 minutes ago, Bigboff said:
Like I said earlier, hard to get the blood up against basement dwellers like Leeds.
Yeah nobody's buying it. Least of all the Cas fans having meltdowns near us when it looked like they might lose.
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Yorkshire's biggest derby and we're back on tv
Cas will presumably continue to be a Radford team of spectacular inconsistency.
For Leeds they are tragically mentally fragile at the moment so a lot depends on how well Maharishi Jones Buchanan has convinced them that the result on Thursday wasn't a capitulation but actually quite a triumphant performance and result against a team from the current top end of the table.
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1 hour ago, Death to the Rah Rah's said:
Update: can’t get return train tickets further north than Birmingham on the Sunday after the challenge cup final, so had to get return flights from Newcastle to Heathrow instead.
shame, as it’s bound to affect the attendance for what should be a great day at Spurs new stadium
The rail transport in the UK really is a disgrace (and very expensive) - it’s actually not much more to fly !
If you're going to Newcastle why not just continue on the train from there, it's under a 3 hour journey? Traipsing out to Newcastle airport and then into London from Heathrow seems a bit of a long-winded way of doing it. As far as I can see the East Coast Main Line is operating as normal, it's the West Coast line which has the issues.
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3 minutes ago, Live after death said:
Looks good on paper, but will a spade ever break the ground, should have gone down this route 20 years ago rather than pipe dreams.
The point is these things can never happen without funding. And that almost always comes back to local authority backing one way or another. It wasn't present in a serious way before and now is.
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Finally things are happening at Cas and Wakey. And it's no surprise that it comes just after the council started to stop being an obstruction and started helping like other local authorities have over the past two decades.
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9 minutes ago, Scubby said:
Easter games on Thursday really defeat the object.
Think Leeds are the only club not really fussed about Good Friday games. They went through a period of rejecting their right to one for a while in favour of an Easter Monday one.
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Full time 20-20 aet.
Official Leeds man of the match Blake Austin.
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Attendance 11,284.
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2 hours ago, Barley Mow said:
I haven't seen much, if any animosity between Rhinos and United fans, but I may just not be noticing it!
There's not much but some of us do our best
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Fortunately nobody hurt in this.
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4 hours ago, JonM said:
The moaning about it is never about the sporting characteristics of it either.
IMO, it's dull, but less dull than say motor racing or golf. Still, some people like to watch those sports. It doesn't involve people being paid large sums of money, or indeed any money at all. It does feature people who are enormously dedicated athletes, among the very best in the world at what they do. It's half an hour of cheap tv that gets good ratings. No-one is forced to watch.
I bet it's not particularly cheap TV to produce with all the multiple outside broadcast locations to cover.
Unfortunately it appears to generate unfathomably high viewing figures.
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33 minutes ago, Dunbar said:
This is exactly right. It's the difference between the strength of a club and the strength of a team. In the former category, Leeds are in an enviable position.
Very true. Although, and here's something which will delight JohnM, the pandemic is wreaking a bit of havoc even with (particularly with) the strong clubs.
Caddick's 2021 consolidated accounts, published yesterday and which include Leeds RL as a separate segment, are an early indication of how Rugby League clubs endured the second year of Covid. They show a continuation of Wigan-style losses at Leeds. But that should reverse in 2022 as 'more normal operations' resume. Whereas clubs with nothing to fall back on will still have nothing to fall back on.
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16 minutes ago, Eddie said:
Oh yeah good point (though it was due to Saints fans travelling in big numbers).
If by that you mean around a tenth of the crowd were from St Helens then yes, you could interpret it that way if you wanted to.
Zak Hardacre
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If he's been sacked by Wigan we'd need to understand why. Leeds should have sacked him first time around so I'd instinctively feel we shouldn't go down the route of bringing him back, particularly into an environment with a lot of young players in it.
Some fans will feel even more vociferous that he isn't someone we would want at the club.
Many I suspect though, possibly even most, would just be glad to have a decent, experienced player to fill the gaping holes in the backline and any other considerations are an irrelevance.