His technical knowledge seems pretty strong - he did an excellent job with Carneige - he had a great playing presence and when you hear him talking about the game his inner knowledge of the real aspects of the game is excellent

He needs leadership and boundries - Sinfield will bring that, I can see this really working well

Hats off to GH. He's a genius...can't think of anyone else who could have pulled this off.
I was sorry to see Mac sacked but all good things come to an end.
The king is dead, long live the new KING.

There are exactly my thoughts

I really hope you are right. IMO, the Sinfield appointment is great, and was always going to happen at some stage. I'll reserve judgement on the Lowes one until I've seen how we try to play on the field. I'm trying not to be a bit disappointed, let's see.

I agree it would have been great if GH said here is Kevin Sinfield and here is Craig Bellamy - that would be revolution - the club needs evolution.

Will Lowes work - I hope so and I genuinely think it will he has the correct leadership in place.

Certainly didn't see this one coming. I'm really not sure how to feel.I mean, of course i'm happy Sinfield is back with the club but he has no track record at all in coaching (unless you believe he coached the team with JP for several years, which i don't).

There are still a lot of Sinfields old buddies knocking around in that squad too, a fair few that need moving on now in one way or another.i would have liked to see him work alongside/ over looking an experienced coach first for a few years who can fully see out the end of the previous era and into the new one.maybe that will still happen, but i get the feeling that GH is looking for any reason to make this permanent now and save money so expect any spin possible to polish the ending of this turd of a season be it finishing top 2 in the middle 8's or a couple of 'excellent results' in the super 8's.

Lowes will achieve nothing hes totally the wrong choice. K S appointment seems a bit of a smoke screen to promote a coach not of the Leeds standard. G H doesn't get much wrong but his last two dissensions will bite his bum. Tides of change .

It was an interesting comment that Barrie Mac made on Sky, Lowes is a great coach but doesn't want to do all of the other 80% of the work that a coach does when off the field.
This sounds like a bit of a smoke screen to get Sinfield to do that 80% and allow Lowes just to have that 20% input with the players. Announced in such a fashion to make it appear that Sinfield will be doing all of the work and will definitely be the focus of the media.

Could be a good combination as Lowes has the coaching background and Sinfield has the ability to front up to the media.

As an outsider looking in on the Leeds situation I think your point of GH bringing KS in and developing him with the aspirations of eventually becoming your CEO is pretty much the nail on the head.

Do question the timing of Mcdermott s departure. However I do feel he's lost the dressing room and has been skating on thin ice for a while now.

Maybe GH has gone down this avenue (for now) as your coach isn't immediately available due to paperwork or logistics. I did also hear from an Ex Pro Dennis Betts was already lined up for the position (does this fit with the Sinfield England link?)

I do also think that there's been no real players in abundance to take over the responsibilities of your golden generation. One or two yes, but not the quantity of the void left.

Makes Sunday interesting for you guys though I'd imagine the following week against Wakefield will be a better gauge for the rest of the season.

Me too actually.

This would seem to make sense.

Good start, all we need now is for Sir Kevin to contact Claire Balding to do the PR

Clare Balding? She's awful.

I'm delighted to see Sir Kev back at the club but i really don't know about Lowes. I'm prepared to give them him benefit of the doubt and prey that it will work and keep us out the bottom 4, that's the only thin that is important for this season now. Of course a CC win would be nice ;p

Delighted that Sir Kevin Sinfield is back at the club, slightly concerned that his first coaching job is head coach. I guess Lowes is the best person we could get to come in as assistant, I presume Barry Eaton will also stay on as assistant.

Why not give Barry Eaton a go instead of James Lowes ? (for the remainder of the season) Eaton already works with the current squad, whilst James Lowes doesn't have much time to familiarize himself with the entire squad.

Perhaps Lowes was only willing to leave Yorkshire Carnegie if he was number 2 to Sinfield. Eaton can continue his work with the squad anyway.

Well, it'll be reviewed at the end of the season, so if Lowes is just an interim coach then I don't mind.

I'm very confident that Dave Furner will be the Head coach of the Rhinos for 2019

Great announcement today regarding Sinny but this is surely only a short term move before he ultimately ends up as Hetherington's successor as CEO

Hmmmm a tip off or gut feeling?

Think I would of preferred a higher class of coach to get the big names in for next season. Then breed kev for the job over the next few years. But saying that I hope the role works and having full control could be brilliant!

Just seen a valid point on twitter re Director of Rugby. Wasnt Powell made Director of Rugby on Smiths appointment before he ultimately left Leeds?

Pete Smith seems to think not but im not so sure? He definitely moved upstairs for a period.

Wasnt that Leeds Rugby ie both League and Union (though mostly Union) rather than Leeds Rhinos Director of Rugby?

I cant remember. Just thought it was interesting given the announcement as a new position.