How many times are we the sacrificial lambs after a coach is sacked - guarantee we'll cop for the 'revitalised' Leeds performance under the new coach

To be fair, it's probably balanced out by the amount of times a beating by us have resulted in a coach's sacking.

A record like that at Wakefield would see a coach given the Freedom of the City, not the sack.

I have as much time for BM as he does for his home city.

I will never forget his rallying calls for the support for Bradford Bulls when they were in dumps financially, he even organised some sort of charity event to help them out. Yet when Wakefield were in there hour of need there was not a word from his mouth.

Anyway all that aside there is no denying his success at Leeds, I think his downfall in the end was his stubbornness to replace the ageing players, he got the timing all wrong IMO.

I'm currently volunteering at YEP and we're trying to get him in for an interview. Might be something to bring up! (obviously I won't be in there)

Wrong there my friend. He and Tony Smith spoke out against the vultures picking our 2011 admin rotting carcass.

Spot on.

I also agree spot on .

I work with a few Whinos & they have been calling for his head since Sinfield retired, despite the Grand Final win last year! You just can’t please some people & he ain’t exactly Mr Popular.

And his big brother played for us!

And his big brother played for us!

Really surprised by this

Surely something has gone on that we are not party to

Hope we don’t see another good English coach go over to the dark side .
Whatever you think about Wayne and McDermott ,they are on the top of their game.
I’m not a fan of his sometimes arrogant personality myself but he would be another big loss to Rl if he takes his ball n bat Home and goes to union .

Players like Sinfield, Maguire and Burrow don't come around very often, and the latter two were part of their own academy. I think they were fortunate that they were around at the same time.

None of their more recent pool of home grown players have lived up to their standard, so they need to look beyond their own academy.

Unfortunately for Leeds, this hasn't happened which surprised me.

Wonder if with all the recent developments of the stadium, as to whether they have had to kerb their spending on players.

With this and their injury plight, he's had a tough and thankless job really since winning the treble. That said about their injuries, he was quite harsh on us in 2015, when we were struggling.

Who'd be a coach

I know the betting odds are out but who would be shocked by Jamie Peacock?

A long, successful career and spent the last few years in the set up at the Rovers as the Head of Rugby.

No real coaching experience at a high level. Head of Rugby doesn't neccessarily mean he's a coach.

I agree completely, there are better candidates out there however spending the last few years under Sheens will have done a lot for JP.

David Furner is being mentioned over here - currently ass coach with the rabbits

JD has been mentioned to.

Powell has said in an interview Leeds haven't approached him and if they did he isn't interested as he has unfinished business at Cas

They'd be foolish to go for Peacock.
Same with Sinfield.
Bring them in as management if you like but not coach.
It's a top job. Needs experience.

Furner is my bet. I hope it isn't JD.

Knowing Hetherington he’ll already have someone lined up to step in at the club before he gave big Brian the chop.
Don’t think they’ll go too many games rudderless ,especially with the big split looming .
Likes been said earlier let’s hope they don’t get their act together before we play them .

He isn't working under Sheens
He is business management not assistant coach.

that's being a little selfish, JD deserves a chance of a good position as much as anyone else

Yes, it's a bit of a poisoned chalice at the moment. If McD can get fired following Leeds recent success what chance has the next incumbent.

I'm pretty sure my hoping won't actually impact his chances and I'm also pretty confident he'll have a great coaching career whether he applies or not.