No it's not a good comparison, because Mourinho had proved himself as a top manager at several different club's in several different circumstances.

Other than the 15 game unbeaten run they went on.

Brian? The Special One? If Roman Abramovitch owned Leeds BMD would have disappeared after the Cas game. And I mean "disappeared".

McDermott should thank his lucky stars he doesn't work for Celino!!

Leeds have plenty to lose starting with their super league status .

You think we'd be worse?

We've just shipped 40 against a team who hadn't scored over 30 all season and lost their captain early in the game.

A week after conceding 50 at home for the first time in Super League.

Frankly, you could pick the team by drawing names out of a hat and it couldn't do much worse than the last two weeks.

I think any coach in professional sports thinks the same.

Bradford put 54 past you at Headingley in 1996, so not the first time.

Nobody was expecting miracles this season , but what we are entitled to is a team playing to a game plan, using a kicking game and closing down the opposition, and some signs of improvement from week to week.
In addition to lacking all of these , Mac has now added the attribute of giving a half time team talk which has a totally negative effect , as we are becoming an absolute shambles in the second half of games. I am fed up of hearing that there is a lot of effort - in SL effort alone is not enough.
Our kicking game & last tackle options have to be the worst in SL - that is down tom one person - the coach.
We need action now - Sack him now & go down the road and get Powell lined up for next year - its that simple .
GH - get the wallet out - we need to spend big on some descent / proven players - not the crap we have acquired this year.

Even as a tenth rate armature player I was never in the mood to laugh and joke with the opposition after a heavy loss (a thrashing). Not so some of the Leeds players today, McGuire especially. Well, at least the players have a smile on their faces.

Oh, there's a thread for this very subject.

Two threads with direct reference to this.....all the crap about how the players are 'doing it tough' and feeling the stress. Utter bollox. Treating their supporters with contempt more like.

As I said previously I am not bothered too much after but during the game banter and friendly banter that's more concerning

It's McDermott's fault players smile.

McDermott is not blameless for the position the team find themselves in this season - it not all his fault but some of the blame has to fall at his door

I agree. As I've always said, McDermott, coaches, GH, players all deserve the credit for success. All equally deserve blame for failure.

Whilst I do agree with that the reality is it's much easier to change a head coach and a couple of backroom staff than to sack a whole team.

You can't help but feel McDs days are numbered now.

Everyone's days are numbered but you have to ask how the hell is McDermott still in post with this season's record. He should have been sacked long since but if that's not happening how is he not seeing what's going on out on the field and making the decision to remove himself.

His percentage record in the bread and butter Regular Rounds is now approaching that of Dean Lance - and in the wrong direction - soon they'll be only one more to go.

I think it all stems to the dear John Letter from GH. he looks a fool if he fires Brian right now when all was well in the camp according to him what, not 2 weeks ago?

There are so many signs that things are not right at Headingley and that has been the case for most of the season . Whilst i am a massive fan of Hardaker and Watkins something seems not quite right regarding both of them .

I agree which is why I think his days are numbered rather than him about to be slung out now.

With any hope of avoiding the middle 8 disappearing in the last month and us out of the cup I suspect McD will see the season out but planning for his replacement must be in full swing.

His days will be numbered as soon as the crowd starts getting at Hetherington rather than just McDermott. At the moment, McDermott is acting as a nice bullet vest for a CEO who has been excellent in the past but in any shareholder-responsible business would be getting the boot himself.

I strongly suspect McDermott will be given another season at least. To "complete the job" or some such reason like that.

The next close season should be very interesting

Feel genuinely sorry for the Leeds fans currently.

Where has it gone wrong? You've lost your brain (Sinfield) heart (Peacock). I'm sure I heard somewhere that Brian Mac at times let Sir Kev and Jamie run the team talks etc. Maybe losing these two in one season is proving to be too much of a loss.