I think someone might have been making a little joke

Thank goodness for you

The 17 first choicers that Powell had available to him would stick 50+ on the current first 17. Powell was out of his depth and Hughes refusal to admit as much QUICKLY is a contributing factor as to why we are relegated this year.

Lest we forget. The appointment of Powell and Gus nearly killed this club!

funny he was coach of the month the first month he was with us!



Just pointing out we seem to be a pretty fickle bunch apparently Brian Mac was garbage as well

When Mac was binned it was the right decision for the club, irrespective of what he has done at Leeds. Lest we forget he went there initially as an assistant. The problem was we didn't replace him with a coach of a decent standard with either SL or NRL experience

I freely admit to thinking Mac's strengths lay in "motivation" rather than technical coaching. I still believe that but also concede that you don't win the trophies Leeds have under him purely through motivation. He does have a great leader on the park though.



As for Powell's "coach of the month" award.....I'll counter that with some statistics....get that stunned look off your face!



47 SL games and 5 Challenge Cup ties under his stewardship.



In the Cup 5 cup games...we beat 3 lower division teams and lost to Leeds and Hudds, whilst in 47 SL ties, we won 9 and drew one.....losing 37. Not sure about what you deem as a successful or good coach, but the term "one swallow doesn't make a spring" does spring to mind when it comes to his first month.....where by the way, 4 of his 9 wins came from.....remove the first 5 games from 2011 and his winning ration drops to a staggering 12% in 42 SL games.



Hey.....to counter this, he was on an 80% win ratio for that first month

Rob Powell was badly undermined a player who was effectively acting as an unofficial player coach from what I hear. If true, Rob should have been backed or bulleted. He was left in an impossible position by the powers to be doing neither for far too long.

Talking to people who played under Powell. They have all said he could coach. One thing that was mentioned was that after the successful start to that season, everyone was confident. What then happened was that we got smashed and he started to hold crisis meetings etc. etc. He then lost his way.



People who also played under McDermott said he was a good coach. I listen to them tbh.

Talking to people who watched his team and looking at his results between Feb 12th 2011 and July 8th 2012, there is another train of thought.

Gutters that is the best reply I have seen from you in ages 49 games and our win ratio was X take away those wins and it's much much worse.

And did I actually say this made him the coach of coach of coaches I simply highlighted that Rob was facing a similar problem that Joe has ok maybe not as bad, but still hampered by the tools he had to work with.

I just find it interesting that we turned on Rob pretty quickly just wondering how long before Joe gets the same treatment.

Got to go back to those stats tho, brilliant mate just brilliant

It was just like watching Brazil!