Leeds : Sat May 07, 2016 9:48 am  

What the hell has happened to them. I suspect last night ended there season.

Wigan have managed to play through injuries, why not Leeds?

Re: Leeds : Sat May 07, 2016 9:58 am  

We could make lots of excuses but being honest we just haven't been good enough.we are we are because we deserve to be. A few things need addressing and now we have plenty of time on our hands to do that for 2017

Re: Leeds : Sat May 07, 2016 10:16 am  

wire-quin wrote:

What the hell has happened to them. I suspect last night ended there season.

Wigan have managed to play through injuries, why not Leeds?

Leeds have lost ten, we have lost four but have been really lucky in at least another four games winning in the last few minutes. Hull Away, Salford Home, Hudds Home and Away.

Wigan's ability to pull a win out of the bag has been the difference.

Re: Leeds : Sat May 07, 2016 11:34 am  

I think many expected Leeds to have a difficult season, but the injuries have affected them badly...

Re: Leeds : Sat May 07, 2016 11:45 am  

First week of May & it's looking like season over, welcome to my world .

At least their supporters can dine on the last ten, they'll be back, hopefully around 2022.

#Mac Out.

Re: Leeds : Sat May 07, 2016 11:53 am  

They look a poor side, we aren't much better this year, but we have had 2 fairly comfortable wins over them in the last 2 weeks.
Apart from Burrow scooting from DH, they have very little attacking threat, but he can't do it on his own.

Re: Leeds : Sat May 07, 2016 11:57 am  

Wigan Peer wrote:

I think many expected Leeds to have a difficult season, but the injuries have affected them badly...

Have Leeds had injuries? nothing been said about it on SKY and I've not heard Brian McDermott mention anything about it either

Re: Leeds : Sat May 07, 2016 2:32 pm  

When you're having to re-sign Luke Briscoe you know things are desperate.

Honestly, it's 3 major factors combined in my opinion.
1st is the injuries. It has decimated the team. In the previous Hudds v Leeds game last week, Leeds were playing 5 players who hadn't run since the previous week. There are players playing who really shouldn't be but they have to because there's no-one else.

2nd is the training ground. It flooded at just the worst time meaning Leeds effectively had little to no preseason and still is out of use.

3rd is the loss of Peacock & Sinfield. Which wouldn't have been such a problem had McGuire not been injured along with JJB & Cuthbertson. In 2015 if you looked at the Leeds team you'd say the leaders in that team were Sinfield, McGuire, Peacock, JJB & Cuthbertson. We've been without all of those at times and only had McGuire for a couple of games. McGuire, especially is a huge loss on top of the loss of Sinfield and Peacock. To then have a 21 and 19 year old halfback partnership at the same time as all the injuries and at the same time as the loss of the training ground is a recipe for disaster. And so it's proved. Get Hardaker, Hall, Briscoe, Moon, McGuire, Cuthbertson, Falloon, Ablett, Delaney & Ward back fit and we'll do alright.

Re: Leeds : Sat May 07, 2016 2:51 pm  

Him wrote:

When you're having to re-sign Luke Briscoe you know things are desperate.

Honestly, it's 3 major factors combined in my opinion.
1st is the injuries. It has decimated the team. In the previous Hudds v Leeds game last week, Leeds were playing 5 players who hadn't run since the previous week. There are players playing who really shouldn't be but they have to because there's no-one else.

2nd is the training ground. It flooded at just the worst time meaning Leeds effectively had little to no preseason and still is out of use.

3rd is the loss of Peacock & Sinfield. Which wouldn't have been such a problem had McGuire not been injured along with JJB & Cuthbertson. In 2015 if you looked at the Leeds team you'd say the leaders in that team were Sinfield, McGuire, Peacock, JJB & Cuthbertson. We've been without all of those at times and only had McGuire for a couple of games. McGuire, especially is a huge loss on top of the loss of Sinfield and Peacock. To then have a 21 and 19 year old halfback partnership at the same time as all the injuries and at the same time as the loss of the training ground is a recipe for disaster. And so it's proved. Get Hardaker, Hall, Briscoe, Moon, McGuire, Cuthbertson, Falloon, Ablett, Delaney & Ward back fit and we'll do alright.

None of those things are valid enough excuses for the way we are performing, the actual results if we were competing well then fair enough, but are are playing poor across the board and clearly being coached poorly. We have to try something and we either start shipping some players out now or the coach.

Re: Leeds : Sat May 07, 2016 3:09 pm  

Before the season I predicted one of the big boys would do a Chelsea. Turns out its Leeds. Low league position, poor away form, player of the year playing poorly