Ex-Swarcliffe Rhino:

Well he came through the systems at Wigan so knows it backwards. 
They've also got a great behind the scenes set up there too which doesn't hurt.
I like Matt Peet, I like what hes about and the way he goes about it. 


Doubt he'd have instant success at Leeds should he suddenly have an epiphany and join us due to the lopsided nature of our club, but I reckon he'd be the type of coach to finally start down the path of reorganising the academy pathways to benefit the first team and would certainly improve the team ethos.

exiledrhino:



It's a good question - I think a lack of strategy and consistency has massively hampered us in the rugby department. We've been thinking too short term, and not competed enough at bringing the best juniors through the system. In a sense, I think Frawley is clearly a stop gap signing to allow one of our junior halves to come through without being such a big signing to block them. 

In terms of coaching we've gone from the strange David Furner spell, to JJB as caretaker, to Agar as temporary, to Agar as potential DOR then leaving, then the absolute massive gamble of Rohan Smith, and now we have Arthur who we know doesn't want to stick around.

Every coach has to 'build their own squad', those squads need to settle and 'gel' and the short termism doesn't leave room for integrating junior players into the set-up. 


I'm hoping having Blease settles things down in that regard, but we definitely need more clear direction with how we recruit and bring through players, and make it clear to whatever coach succeeds Arthur that they will largely have to improve players we already have supplemented by a few signings to add quality.

Jack Burton:

I never thought Leeming was that bad for Leeds, personally. I think he was, and still is better than Andy Ackers