Macca being interviewed on BBC. He is very very defensive....not seem him like that before - he looks very angry.

What did he say? Missed it. I was washing up. I think I'm probably glad I missed it.

About time he showed some feeling. He sounds like the least motivational person I've ever heard interviewed on telly, depresses me just listening to him.

He said 'bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla', you know, the usual.

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See above.







OK, previous page then.

What did you say to the players?
SM: Thats between me and the players.

Did the conditions affect your team?
SM: We cant control the weather.

Did the Cas game have any affect?
SM: Last week was last week.

.....Its my job as coach to make sure we are ready for next week.
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I fear LEEDS are going to give us a bigger beating than Wigan did.

They give you £10 to watch them, that's not a bad deal but I'll still give it a miss.

Please tell me he didn't say "....we know where we went wrong....working on it...looking forward to putting it right on friday...., etc, etc..."

I couldn't tell you, the moment he started talking I fell asleep.....

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Mmmmm. Do you think he issued a b********? I think that's part of the problem. I don't think he has the fear factor!

Where? Odsal? Are you one of the 100 or so that travel over then?

Part of me feels sorry for Macca, because he has once again been badly let down by his players. But he has recruited those players and it is his job to instil the mental toughness needed to win matches from various scenarios. I'm afraid the interview didn't really inspire confidence that things can change for next week.

I'd like to see Deacon dropped but who else can we play there? Perhaps if Solomona is back we could look at moving Menzies to 6 and Jeffries to 7. Deacon is doing very little right now other than throw the odd hospital pass and missing far too many tackles. I'd go for the following team for Leeds:

Platt (despite todays blunder he has been playing well)
Halley
Sykes
Nero
Tadulala
Menzies
Jeffries
Burgess
Newton
Lynch
Solomona
Cook
Langley

Worrincey
Koppy
Scruton
Crossley/Donaldson/Whitehead/Hyde

Let's give one of the young guys a go. Ok Leeds at home isn't the ideal time to blood a young un but I don't see the benefit of having an out and out winger on the bench. I assume Crossley is fit, in which case I'd give him a chance to make a name for himself. Quite often a young player actually makes his name is such high profile games.

FFS i fell asleep at half time put teletext on and thought FM useless bug@ers are those idiots at teletext , then i came on RLFans .....
I stand corrected




did the mystic 1 see this coming?

I'm dreading Leeds next week, although the match I'm watching now seems to be taking a bit out of them. Deacon dropped would be good, he's been more of a liability than ever lately; He can't tackle, knocks on at easy passes and his in-game kicking has gone to pot. I'd include Donaldson or Whitehead and I agree with Menzies and Jeffries in the halves.

At least we travel. When you play at the Galpharm most of your spporters only have to catch a local bus.

Yeah, but the Beer's awful!

We need to do something until Deacon can sort his defence out. If not Leeds big men will run at Deacon all night long and score tries for fun. He's had plenty of games to find some form and has offered nothing, time to make a bold change to shake things up a little.

That's cheered me up. Cheers.

I've just had a thought....
...what odds would you have got on Catalans to win at half time?
Mmmmm...

The first half was more to do with their poor defense than our quality attack, vica versa in the second half. That neither team could halt the momentum of the other and it was just a case of who made better use of that momentum. That really terrifies me for next week as Leeds are guaranteed to capitalise on 70%+ of their opportunities and there'll be nothing we can do to slow them down.

A 50+ score line is on the cards

If Catalans can get 40, then Leeds can get double. It's going to be a long night.

was long at headingley today?...sorry wrong thread

So surely it was his job to make sure we were ready for this week.
This is a good tactic. Just say that the last match was the last match and that you are getting them ready for the next match.