Says Leeds need to employ a wrestling coach in the off season as clearly Wigan are better at wresting and dont allow sides to get a roll on. He emphasised the wrestling and thinks may be Leeds will need to adopt those tactics next year, ARSE!!!

The play the balls was a mess again, I wouldn't say wrestling but alot of the attacking players playing for pens by holding on to the defender( Sam tomkins).

If you can get away with it then fair play.

I don't see how he can use that as reason Leeds lost to Wigan tonight, Wigan was better in every part of the game.

Everything about Leeds just leaves a bad taste in the mouth at the moment. Right through from the idiot in charge that is Heatherington down through the coach and some of the players and right through to alot of arrogant fans they're are just a club with a poor attitude.

Some of the idiots we encountered on our way back to the car tonight was no suprise as it happens everytime you go to Leeds and has been doing for years. They have a big element of supporters with a huge chip on their shoulders which has only got bigger on the back of some recent success.

I felt dirty for saying it but as I said to one of their mongy fans on the way out 'Come on You Saints' next week and I mean that. They may be our biggest rivals but they're a proper club with proper fans that have a very similar outlook on things as ourselves and don't all go around thinking they're birty big bol*ocks.

Can't see where this is going



edit: slagging off our defensive techniques!!

How about just playing honest hard Rugby.... That would be a starting point. Getting rid of Bailey, JJB and Senior would be a start for me and the rest of my comments could be construed as libelous so I won't go there

Awww come off it, they're not that bad? Are they...?

You were far the better team tonight, but people in glass houses..........

Its a bit rich that!

leeds are the worst in the league for getting their limbs caught up in the tackle and taking an age to free themselves.

I just think they need a reality check tbh.

They're a huge club with some great players but a few of them and their fans need to show a little more humility.

A lot of coaches don't understand the importance of fitness and agility in the way we defend, and how that affects the type of player you can afford to have in your squad. If we had a massive pack we'd be better in the odd game but worse in far more.

Leeds for some reason have always seemed to consistently get away with absolute murder. Forward passes, messing about at the play the ball, back chatting to refs. general dirty tactics, which is why i wont take anything that mclennan says about our wrestling tactics seriously.

take a look at your own team and how the play before you go pointing the blame at other teams tactics.

Nah, I more or less agree with every word you put in your post (living in Leeds myself I hear all about it). They're 1 set of fans who show probably the least amount of respect to any other teams achievements yet expect other fans to bow down to what they've done.

say wigan need to employ a wrestling coach next season after abletts attempt at a "peoples elbow!"

people in glass houses shouldnt throw stones.

Oh go on play the innocent

But first they'd ave to polish that stone real nice, turn that son of a bitch sideways and shove it up there candy

To be fair he's quoted on sprotinglife saying this:

"All in all I just thought we lost the ruck area a little bit, they are very strong in that area.

"They are very strong in the wrestle and we lost quite a bit of possession there, trying to get up and play the ball quicker, through poor technique and poor grip.

"It's something we've got to practise, it's par for the course, we'll make sure we get better at it too."

That sounds like a critisism of Leeds rather than a dig at Wigan.

Wonder if Wane went on report and said he needs to send out his team to take out by any means fair or foul the key opposition players.

TBH, McLennan's interview smacked of "shoulda, woulda, coulda".

Rather than looking at our tackling technique and talking about employing a Wrestling coach, he should - if the RFL employs any sense of fair play following Andy Coley's two match ban following the game at Catalans - be looking at the structure of his team without Ablett and Bailey for the Challenge Cup semi.

hE THOUGHT THNERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THISE CHALLENGES AND BOTH WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK. wISHFUL tHINKING

McLennan's interview was poor.

His defence of Ablett in particular was a disgrace. He should have said nothing given that the hearings have yet to take place. He seemed to be implying that Ablett didn't even foul Tomkins. Ridiculous.

As for his wrestling references, these just made him seem bitter and a poor loser. Wigan were much better on the night and his side's poor discipline and violent conduct showed that they knew they couldn't cope with Wigan's powerful and mobile defence.

TBH.... I got the impression from the interview that he saw it as a area they need to look at and address because they were completely controlled in that area.

I think he sees the "wrestle" as an area he needs to do at Leeds... Because like it or like it not... there is nothing wrong with our technique and the RFL can't do anything about it... so you either complain about it, like many other coaches have this year, or you implement it yourself and I think that is were Brian is coming from..

IMO he was totally wrong regarding the abblett incident and maybe on viewing it again he will see it somewhat differently!!

I don't think your "wrestling" is that bad to be honest. It's the "loosening" the ball in the tackle that winds me up. Full credit to your coach and players for getting away with so much.

Leeds don,t show any sportsmanship whatsoever, McLennan always throws in a snide comment when they lose. They have been getting away with dirty tactics and controversial decisions for a couple of seasons now. Why can't they accept they were just beaten by a better team and there dirty tactics didn't work.

I've got to be honest and say when I watched the interview on the internet late last night and it was fine. I didn't think he said anything against us and actually gave us quite abit of praise(he was wrong to back Ablett mind).

The Leeds club(bar maybe McLennan) still needs to come down a peg or 2 though.

Leeds have been using that technique for quite a few years now, probably why they have been so successful. Always said that if you can play the rules that well, it should be congratulated. They should really know how to stop a team doing it to them.