Quote ="Sal Paradise"In a salary cap sport you cannot simply make wholesale changes - it will take time. This squad has been going backwards since the close of 2015 and it will probably take 3 years to turn the squad around provided the quality of player is available and wants to come to Leeds. How long have Myler, Briscoe, Singleton, Handley, Ferres, Tui etc got let on their contracts you can't ship players like this out before the end of their contract unless somebody else wants them.
Furner is an experienced coach - he is far from a rookie'"
I did not suggest simply making wholesale changes. The signings we could and should have made were to the key positions like a playmaking half back which would have transformed our performances as we have seen from other sides.
A class playmaker can make ordinary players look better than they are. Two or three class signings plus giving the promising youngsters game time would have transformed out performances.
So I do not accept that 3 years is required to turn around our fortunes, that is just an excuse for poor management and bad recruitment.
My comment about Furner is that his head coach experience was poor to say the least and he had the dubious honour of coaching the team to the most consecutive losses in its history and in finishing second to bottom was the worst finish since the clubs debut season in 1982. He was sacked as a result and has only been offered assistant jobs since 2013 until Leeds came along in desperation. So rookie might not be the right description but you certainly wouldn’t say he was a successful top coach either.
