lol that made me laugh but they might get a family discount for 2 tickets. So please do follow your uncle and take as much OXEN kit that you can cram in your duffle bag

Sometimes it’s worth coming on here for these little gems alone ! We browse the forum for the Rohan Smith debate, Matt Frawley’s kicking ability (or not) ….. and we get the Soviet Union tractor plan. Made my night that.

I’d be asking Uncle Tony to come in and support Rohan for rest of the season. We need an experienced head…..

Backwoodsman - agreed and all for a good cause - lets hope we get some entertainment as well for the
next 5 months.

I think this year's merch isn't too bad, it's better than some of the guys ability wearing the merch on the pitch anyway!!

Great stuff, thanks.

Jason Demetriou anyone?

He would certainly get an easier time here with regards to press questions

Off goes his head on goes a turnip!

Hudds are spanking Catalans in France tonight. We will really need to improve for next Friday night.

They’ll be hot facou

The next 6 games are vital to our season. We have Huddersfield who just walloped Catalans away in the cup. Hull FC who are in complete disarray, London at home, Catalans away, St Helens away and Cas at home. I expect us to win 3 (Hull FC, London and Cas) and lose 3 (Hudds, Catalans and Saints) leaving us with a P13, W7, L6 record and probably just hanging onto the pack chasing 5/6th place. Anything worse than this as Smith should be removed, same if we don’t achieve 4th or better by the end of the season. We have a squad that should be no worse than 4th, and were currently sat 8th, with no sensible or recognisable way of defending or attacking.

Pretty much agree Bats.
Although I really don't think Smith will be sacked mid-season, regardless of where we are.
The club may be planning for a change at the end of the season, but not a lot of point removing him halfway through as we won't be relegated.
Pretty depressing that we fully expect to get beaten at home by Hudds.
Hope we're wrong of course!
And there's something very wrong if we don't win all 3 of the games you highlighted.

If we lose to hudds at home smith needs to be packing his bags.

Assuming they had a tough game physically against Catalans and a few battered bodies and we will have had 2 weeks to recover from niggles no excuse this time for anything other than a win at home

Shoulda coulda woulda.

Short of us finishing in next to last place he will stay I think.

If we reach above 8th it will be the usual backslapping congrats/ paper over the cracks regarding performances.

The start of the season has been pretty woeful, with lots of call back behaviour/antics that were so dysfunctional last year.

Fingers crossed we start to string some wins together,will only get harder

Sorry but beating Hull , London and Cas will not satisfy most of us , we need to win at least one of the other three

Tactics or whatever, we need to have spent this time off genuinely trying to fix up what's going wrong. If we don't change the way we play we'll keep getting the same sort of results. I would have more faith that Rohan knows what he's doing even if we lose against Hudds if it looks like some of the issues we keep seeing seem to have been addressed, or at least improved.

Warrintons defence today in contrast to ours.

Also,short kick offs doing great again

Can we swap Smith for Burgess
Structure,defence and some great attacking play.

Listening to GH’s interview with sky, he clearly sees our current state very differently to most of us. Apparently all the indicators on his dashboard look positive including our best crop of young players for 20 years, apparently we should have a good team in 3-5 years.

He made it clear he has no intention of retiring.

We are heading for an 8th year out of 9 in finishing outside the top 4. I said it last year and will say it again he is way past his sell by date and Caddick needs to get him to stand down. .Sainst and Wigan would have got shut years ago.

There is no plan or idea on how we may replace Smith if this season is another disappointment.

We will hear more tripe about a worldwide search, if Smith fails GH should go.

That GH interview has filled me with dread, despair and being honest with Sky now showing all SL matches what’s the point in spending £300 on a season ticket.
Hetherington is very bad news for Leeds

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Actually, I thought Warrington are playing close to the style Smith wants Leeds to play. It will be interesting to see how far they can ride their current form.

Burgess was a risky appointment IMO, and it's still too early to see if he's a good long-term appointment, but the signs are surely good right now. Don't forget Smith also turned Leeds around from one of the bottom sides to grand finallists in his first few months.

The intake of players at leeds is OK not great but ok . It's the way they are been told to play that's the problem.