........our very own Brian McDermott. This award is given across all sports in the country and is, to my mind, one hell of an accolade to receive.



Heartiest congratulations Brian. You should be very proud. It reflects very well on you and your staff, the club and indeed the wider game.

Just imagine how good he could have been if he'd only followed the advise proffered on here

Well deserved.





Take that Rod Studd.

It's good that all the remaining doubters about McDermott are now confined to posters on this forum. They're all safely in one place, easy to monitor and do not pose an immediate risk to the public.

I have been critical of the decision of GH not appoint a proper assistant coach to BM since it seemed to me to be a cost cutting exercise not in the best interests of the club or BM himself. His is a very lonely position it seems to me.

Over the previous three or four seasons I also thought that we were not developing as a team relying too often on moments of individual skill from our outstanding individual performers.

However, the last season was a revelation where we did play far more as a team collectively well. To a large extent brought on with the arrival of Cuthbertson that brought about a much more cohesive & collective style of play.

So hats off to BM, his selection of Coach of the Year is well deserved.

Good job though that the selection took place before the Davis Cup victory.

This.

If McDermott wanted a single assistant coach he could have one. Money and budgets are not an issue in that respect at Leeds.



As it is, he heads up a coaching department of 20+ people; McDermott's position is lonely because that's the nature of the job but he certainly doesn't lack for people offering alternative opinions, suggestions and solutions.

GOAT Mcdermott! always felt he was destined for greatness

Congratulations Mac. Very well deserved and good luck next season.

This team has been in decline since before they ever even won anything. It just happens that everythone else got worse faster than we did.

the additions of cuthbo and garbutt improved us



whether the players would finally have implemented supermacs methods without them we'll never know

Brian has been leeds coach for 5 years now. Thats a pretty long time in RL. And he has done a pretty amazing job in a couple of ways.



He has I think, already done the 'changeover' from the old guard to the new, and many barely noticed, in fact, many missed it all together and think it is still coming.



When he came in, we had a squad that was at the end of its life and he milked it for 2 years. Winning two grand finals. But that squad has pretty much a completely different back line to this one. We have seen hardaker go from filling in at centre to the best FB in the league, brought in Moon and Briscoe and seen Watkins become the best strike centre in the league, we didnt do that all at once, but slowly and surely changed the personel and the way they needed to play.



In 2013 and 2014 we have done the same thing with the halves and forwards. People will see we have lost Sinfield and Peacock and Kylie and see big losses there, and they are all legends, but, the Sinfield of 2015 wasnt the Sinfield of 2012 and his role in 2015 was much diminished. The same for Peacock and Kylie.



The loss of those players in 2012 would have been devastating, it would have ripped the heart out of a team that was not only reliant on them and their skillset, but built to be reliant on their skillset. For parts of 2015 Sinfield couldnt get on the field and we played some outstanding rugby, Kylie was pretty much a bit part player for the last two years, and for me, as much as a hero and warrior Peacock is, for the first time you could see time catching up and i think you would be hard pressed to argue he was our best prop last year or our most influential (Cuthbertson btw)



credit for this has to go to Brian Mcdermott, he has taken an ageing squad and rebuilt it in to a new one, playing a new style and being hugely successful whilst doing it, leading us to our most successful year ever and despite losing Sinfield and Peacock we are still going in to next year with our best half,and best forwrad, just as we did when we lost Webb and already had Hardaker.

Im not say we are going to repeat this year, but we will be challenging next year, we have rebuilt without slipping, and that is probably the most difficult challenge cfor a sports side so definitely a well deserved award for him.

Totally changed our style of play from 2014 to 2015 and deserves massive credit for it.

Yep but also had the Leadership to adapt the Team when some big injuries bit late on in the season.

Full credit to him and his staff and hopefully we'll finally see the end of the 15/16 man match-day squad in 2016 now we have seen the fringe/younger players can be trusted as well.