Who would we bring in as an ideal replacement?

I think short term Brian Noble and see how he kicks on and long term a team of Noble and Harris.

Trent Robinson, based on this season.

Would he really be any worse than the other suggestions of NRL assistants?

Murray with Harris as assistant.

Id love to see Murray back but i just cant see it happening?
Why cant we do what Wigan and Catalan have done and appoint an up and coming coach from Aus?
It seems to have worked for them?

You lot are Fooking bonkers! Harris? Yeah him GH are gonna hug and make up! Noble would lose the dressing room before stepping foot in it.

Matt Elliot, Daniel Anderson, Graham murray, dave furner, Jason taylor, brian smith, maybe Hanley?

There are some realistic long term targets who could take the club forwards not sideways or back even more!

Fooking noble my are$e!

Anybody but mcdumbnut for both.

Agreed.
Anyone but the current team. I think my six year old daughter has better insight after watching the game with her yesterday

Nah, wouldn't touch Harris with a barge pole. Let him try his luck at Odsal again if he fancies advancing his coaching career.

Nobby has the pedigree, but not I suspect, any enthusiasm for the Rhino brand. Which leaves us hoping that in GH's big black book of young Aussie coaches there is a name or two.....

Elliot has been signed on to be Brian Smith's assistant at Roosters. Neither are gettable. Not that I'd want Elliot anyway, personally, even though he's obviously better than McDermott. Elliot, Noble, McNamara, McDermott and Lowes are just increasingly inferior pupils of the Brian Smith academy, and though Smith himself is obviously a good club coach his school of Rugby has been clearly overtaken by the Craig Bellamy brand.

That said, Anderson or Murray I'd take in a shot.

Murray would be my favoured likely option, but i have the sinking feeling and we will be putting up with this for next year too.

I don't think Leeds should be looking for any kind of quick fix here - this season has gone and i am sure that the search for a long term replacement would of started quite some time ago - the problems at Leeds were apparent in April with the style of play that you had adopted under the current coaching set-up.

Personally i think your current problems reflect poorly on the state of home grown coaches and replacing Mcdermott with Noble is not the answer imo - your answer lies in Australia and a club like Leeds should be looking for either a high profile Australian or someone who is well respected amongst the junior coaches - people like Ricky Stuart and Mal Meninga should be definate targets.

could have what happened at warrington, McDermott moving down to assistant with someone like Daniel Anderson coming in as coach. not the worst case scenerio but would be a good thing imo.

Murray for sure and Furner as assistant would be my choice

Furner is already a head coach in the NRL, why would he come to SL to be an assistant?

More realistic would be Daniel Anderson as head coach, and then he brings in an assistant of his own choice. Personally I would be happy with this.

how about we rejig our squad first before considering the coaching options... or we could just blame BM for that too.

Noble? hmm yeah that would be an improvement because he is famous for diversities in his gameplans. Rhinos under noble - 1. big guy 2. big guy 3. big guy......... 17.big guy

Both the squad and coaching team need attention, but a decent coach would make a significant improvement to our current level of performance. We also need to address the coaching front first as any decent coach would want some level of involvement with the recruitment of replacements in the squad too.

Is GH the type to do this? Has BM asked for the extensions given so far?

I agree that GH doesn't appear to have been the type to say "so coach, who do you want for next year?", but I do think that there will be discussions around which positions need strengthening with what type of player. There may even be a shortlist given to GH by the coach on who the possibles are.

Has BMD asked for the extensions given so far? I'd be pretty amazed if he hadn't been involved at all...

Bats, if we are going to recruit, you don't think it is too late anyway? This time of year is far too late for recruiting for following season. We will have players already agreed for next year, or we are not signing any. It does not matter whether we appoint another coach now or not.

No coach is going to take this squad any further than 5th anyway.

I do think it's too late to pick up the top quality overseas players, but not necessarily the GB based ones, however that would require transfer fees (the OoC ones worth having are signed up by now) and it's unlikely we will pay fees just at the moment with the other costs the business faces like the SS for example.

We have been known to "splash out" on marquee players before (Senior & Harris immediately spring to mind) but it's been a while since we adopted that approach. Personally I think we need some new blood that may already be contracted to other clubs and we need to persuade them to do a deal.

Is that complete supposition or do you have any reason to think that?

do you know what "doesn appear to have been" means? Don't you get paid for understanding the written word?

Oh and yes I do have some reason to think that, and you know who from if you think about it yourself.

If you make Friday's game look across the pitch. That stand will not be there next year. It's replacement will cost a few quid. We will have to pay for that ourselves. Unlike most clubs, we're in a position to do so.

Therefore, I doubt you will see any cash splashed and I reckon you should appreciate and understand why.

HTH

I do, but usually it is the English written word. Your quote isn't English.

If you're going to be a smart arris you might want to do a spell check.

We have to take a hit on the pitch for a couple of seasons while the stand get's sorted out.